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and are thus more anthropoidal than any of the 

 monkey family. 



The male Orang has a well developed beard, 

 which adds considerably to its man-like appearance. 

 Several of the Simiadce and of the cebidce exhibit quite 

 creditable whiskers. The Sakis sports a luxuriant 

 beard ; and the female takes pride in a handsome head 

 of long hair which she parts in the middle. 



There exists a prevailing notion that length of 

 tail has much to do with grade of development in the 

 Simian race, and that man must have sprung from the 

 ape that possessed the shortest caudal appendage. 

 Against this popular idea it may be stated that several 

 of the short-tailed Baboons are exceedingly stupid and 

 brutal, while the long- tailed monkeys are mostly act- 

 ive, intelligent and tractable. Kangaroos and other 

 long-tailed marsupials are notably agile, cunning and 

 quick of apprehension. On the other hand the Aus- 

 tralian bear, the Koala, the Wombat and other short- 

 tailed marsupials are remarkably dull and uninterest- 

 ing. The number of caudal vertebrae in the Orang, 

 the Chimpanzee, and the Gorilla is the same as in 

 man, while the dull Barbary ape the Inuus has one 

 less than the human family. 



Those persons who presume there is little differ- 

 ence between the highest order of apes and the lowest 

 grades of man, should consider that if a young Orang, 

 Chimpanzee or Gorilla be raised by man and subjected 

 to elevating influences, it would remain an ape all its 

 life, yet the infant of the most degraded of the human 

 family may be so managed and educated that it shall 

 at least equal the average man so far as intelligence is 

 concerned. A baby snatched from its ~New Zealand 

 mother and raised under civilized influences, would at 



