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highly organized than a Bear or a Bat, in the fossiliferous 
strata which formed the theatre of animal life anterior to 
the record of the Human Race. Not a bone, not a tooth of 
an Ape, Monkey, or Lemur, had ever presented themselves 
to his notice during the long period of his researches ; * 
whence it came to be generally believed that the Quap- 
ruMANA, or those Mammals which most nearly resemble 
Man in their organization, were scarcely, if at all, anterior to 
the Human Species in the order of Creation. Mr. Lyell, 
however, in 1830,+ had remarked, that the evidence of the 
total absence of the Anthropomorphous tribes was inconclu- 
sive. He rightly stated that the bones of quadrupeds met 
with in tertiary deposits, were chiefly those which frequent 
marshes, rivers, or the borders of lakes; as the Elephant, 
Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Tapir, the Ox, &c., while the 
species which live in trees were extremely rare ; that we 
had, as yet, no data for determining how great a number 
of the one kind we ought to find, before we had a right to 
expect a single individual of the other. And this distin- 
guished Geologist concluded by the remarkable anticipatory 
observation that, ‘if we are led to infer from the presence 
of Crocodiles and Turtles in the London Clay, and from the 
Cocoa Nuts and Spices found in the Isle of Sheppy, that at 
the period when our older tertiary strata were formed, the 
climate was hot enough for the Quadrumanous tribe ; we, 
nevertheless, could not hope to discover any of their skele- 
tons until we had made considerable progress in ascertain- 
ing what were the contemporaneous Pachydermata,”—not 
one of which at the period when the foregomg passage was 
* “ Aucun os, aucune dent de Singe ni de Maki se sont jamais présentés a moi 
dans mes longues recherches.” Cuvier, Discours sur les Réyolutions du Globe, 
p. 159. 
+ Principles of Geology. First edition, 1830, vol. i. p. 152. 
