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hind legs.’ Imagination fails before the inconvenience 
they must have suffered during the period necessary for the 
modification to become complete: yet they had com- 
pleted this before the middle of the Tertiary period: 
when, although /#ezr remains are found abundantly, the 
remains of their Auge progenitors in any transitional state 
are nowhere found; nor in the previous strata one missing 
link. 
The APpEs are taken last. 
The American and European descend from “two 
entirely distinct ortgins.”’ 
The Occidentals “ pozut more probably to one of the 
Insectivorous species than to the Pachyderma.” (sic) A. 
The Orientals including the Anthropomorphous 
(Man-like) Apes descend ‘ from ancestors of the Pachy- 
dermata (sic) spectes.” 
With the exception of a few remarks upon dentition ; 
I find 20 more to explain, what has come to be especially 
interesting, the ancestry of the Anthropomorphous Apes ; 
nothing in this treatise, wherein all, that has been as yet 
found useful to establish the theory of Descent, is passed 
most ably in review. 
As to Man himself, Cuvier’s remark, which may now 
fairly be reapplied to this subject, holds good for His case 
even in a more special way than to others “Jf ¢he species 
had changed gradually,we should find traces of these 
gradual transformations.” even so. 
If it be true that the Horse, which is held to have 
appeared in his latest, his surviving transformation, upon 
the scene about the same date as man. and, in both 
(A). Authors vary somewhat in the declensions of classical nouns, 
and their adjectives: and we sometimes meet with anomalous plural 
forms. Not, of course, of the class of the lady novelist who, noting the 
plural form of Hippopotamus, described the river gambols of the “ Hip- 
popotami, and Rhinoceri.” 
