O NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



pertinently enough ' Their place, age, and history 

 obscure." 



About this time, unfortunately, the chaotic state of 

 simian nomenclature was increased by the importation 

 into Europe of the mandrill also a West African 

 form; confusion was thus " worse confounded," and 

 the drill' put down merely as an immature mandrill 

 which lacked the brilliant ultramarine cheeks of the 

 adult. 1 In 1809, however, the industrious and gifted 

 savant Geoffroy St. Hilaire saw established in Paris 

 the famous menagerie attached to the museum of 

 the Jardin des Plantes, the parent of all modern 

 Zoos, antedating by many years the splendid 

 establishments of Regent's Park and Amsterdam, of 

 Cologne and Antwerp, of Hamburg and Berlin. 

 Eminent scientists studied in the new vivarium 

 animals brought from every quarter of the globe, 

 and prominent amongst these naturalists was 

 Frederic Cuvier, who discovered the essential 

 distinctness of the drill, and described it in 1807 

 under the name of Simia leucophaa. Since Cuvier's 

 day many drill have been imported alive into Europe, 

 and together with the mandrill can always be seen 

 in collections of any size. 



A veteran drill a male which has lived for over 

 twelve years in captivity is still exhibited in the 



1. In October, 1799, a mandrill was exhibited alive at Chester. It is 

 interesting to note that although these baboons have for many years 

 been brought alive to Europe, no full-grown mandrill was exhibited in 

 the London Zoological Gardens until November 20, 1906. 



