Anthropoid Apes 



By ROBEET HARTMANN, 



Professor iu the University of Uerlin. 



With 63 Illustrations ... - 12mo, cloth, $1.75. 



"The anthropoid, or manlike or tailless, apes include tho gorilla and chimpanzee 

 of tropical Africi, the oran^ of Borneo and Sumatra, and the ^'ibbons ol the East 

 Indies. India, ami some other pirts of Asia. I he author of the present work hri3 

 given mucli attention to the ^roup. Like most livinf,' zcfilogists be is an evolutionist, 

 anil holds thut man can not hive descended from any of the fossil species which have 

 hitherto co ne under our noUce, nor yet from any of the spe<'ies now e.\t;int: it is 

 more probible that both types have l»eea produced from a common ground-form 

 which has become e.^tinct."' — Ti>,e NaUon. 



" This Berlin pr.ofe'sor is constrained, after a full presentation of the opinions and 

 arsruments of scientists and philosophjrs, and a careful collection ;ind analysis of 

 recent facts and observation, to declare : " A great chasm between man and anthro- 

 poids is constitued, as I believe, by t -e fact that the human race is capable of educa- 

 tion, and is able to acquire the highest mental culture, while the most intelligent 

 anthroi)oid can only receive a certain mechanical training."— JSeii) ^ork Observer. 



"It will be fouid. by those who follow the author's exegesis with the heed and 

 candor it deserves, that t le simian anee-try of man does nut ns yet rest upon such 

 Solid and perteeted proofs as to warrant the assumption of absolute certainty in which 

 materialists indulj;e." — New York Sun. 



"■'The International Scientific Serios' has now reached its fifty-fecond volume. 

 Started as a ventura. the res ilt of which was very doubiful. the series ha** made its 

 ov/n way into the colleges, academies, anl public and private libraries of the country. 

 Its secure position is due to iha uniform excellence of the works which bear its name, 

 and to the faith, energy, and capital of I). Appleton & <'o. This bonsc knows by long 

 e.xperience that it pays to publish ft-st- diss scientific works. If the tone of such 

 books seens at first to be too high fjr the public taste, then it only remains to educate 

 the people up to them. This has been successfully done in the case <.t 'The Inter- 

 national Scientific Series.' One of its marked characterisiics is the fullness of treat- 

 ment accorded to everv subja-it in every volume. Thus in the fifty-second issue re- 

 lating to ' Anthropoid' Aues.' the author. Professor Ihirtmann. of the University of 

 Kerlin. tells everything thitone could possibly care to know al out the ap?s wbose 

 physical structure most nearly resembles that of man. It contains all that's in the 

 libraries, plus a mass of the author's original observations. 1 he goiilla, chimpanzje, 

 oraniT-outang, and gibban. undergo a minute and profound examination— in wi.d li:e, 

 in captivity, .'ind in the disseetmg-rooai. There are more than 3 p.ages of this no.el 

 and interesting matter, accompanied by sixty-three illustrations. When the attentive 

 r.ader has finished the bank he possesses all that science has yet discovered about the 

 nature and habits of anthropoid apes."— i\^tw York Journal of Commerce, 



" The most able and satisfactory summary of our knowledge upon this important 

 brauch of scienc' which has yet appeared."— i?06'to« Courier. 



"The work is necessarilv less complete than Huxley's monocraph on 'The Craw- 

 fish.' or .Miviirfs on -'I'he C.xt.' but it is a worthy com[)anion of those brilliant vvorks; 

 and in saying this we bestow praise equally high and deserved." — Boston Gazette. 



"The arraniienient of the work is most eatisfaclory. The volume i« one of 

 the most eutertaiuiug of the scriea. "—Har(ford Evening Post. 



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