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Simiiie," and (2) those with narrower claws (/. e., the remaining unguiculate 

 forms). 



1735. Linnieus in the first echtion of the 'Systema Natume' inchides 

 under the order " xVnthropomorpha " the genera Homo, Simia, Bradiipus. 



1758. Linnseus inchides in the order "Primates" the genera Homo, 

 Simia, Lemur (inchiding the Lemuroids and Galeopithecus), VespertUio. 



1780. Storr inchides in his comprehensive group "Primates" the fol- 

 lowing sections. 



"Sectio I, Palmares." Homo. 



"SectioII, Palmoplantares." Simia, Prosimia, Prorrbu.s\ Tar.nus, Lemur. 



"Sectio III, Plantares." Didelphis, Phalanger. 



1779-1797. Blumenbach, "the father of anthropology," assigns man 

 to a separate order "Bimanus," applying Boddaert's term "Quadrumana" 

 to the remaining Primates. 



1792. Vicq d'Azyr classifies the apes, monkeys and lemurs under "les 

 Pedimanes." 



1800. C^uvier separates "les Quadrumanes" from "les Binianes" and 

 divides "les Quadrumanes" into "Singes" [Anthropoids] and "Makis" 

 [Lemuroids]. 



1811. Illiger substitutes the names "Erecta" for "les Bimanes" and 

 "Pollicata" for "les Quadrumanes." 



1816. De Blainville classifies "les Quadrumanes" as follows: 



" Normaux : (1) Singes : du continent ancien, les Singes; 



du continent nouveau, les Sapajous. 

 (2) Makis: les Makis, les Loris, 1' Aye- Aye." 

 De Blainville thus correctly allocated the Aye- Aye and justly separated 

 Old Workl from New World anthropoids. A second grand division "ano- 

 maux" includes Galeopithecus and the Sloths. 



1834. De Blainville clearly anticipates Owen's division "Catarrhina?" 

 and " Platyrrhinje," in the division of the Anthropoids into those with "na- 

 rines rapprochees" ("Pitheci") and those with "narines eloignees" ("Neo- 

 pitheci ") ; the Lemurs are now called " Pseudopitheci." 



1842. Geoffroy rejects the views of Cuvier and Blumenbach as to the 

 ordinal distinctions of the Bimana (Homo) and supports the Linnsean view 

 that mankind belongs zoologically with the Primates. 



1858. Darwin's 'Origin of Species,' and later the 'Descent of Man' 

 initiates a vast literature dealing with the relations and classification of the 

 family Homnida\ 



186G. Owen, developing Bonaparte's cerebral system of classification, 

 separates the " Bimana" as a subclass of mammals under the term " Archen- 

 cephala." 



