476 TERM c QUADRUMANOUS,' CHAP. XXTV. 



proportion of modern zoologists of note have rejected the 

 order Bimana, and have regarded Man simply as a family 

 of one and the same order, Primates. 



Term ' QuadrumanousJ why deceptive. 



Even the term c Quadrumanous ' has lately been shown by 

 Professor Huxley, in a lecture delivered by him in the spring 

 of 1860-61, which I had the good fortune to hear, to have 

 proved a fertile source of popular delusion, conveying ideas 

 which the great anatomists Blumenbach and Cuvier never 

 entertained themselves, namely, that in the so-called 

 Quadrumana the extremities of the hind-limbs bear a real 

 resemblance to the human hands, instead of corresponding 

 anatomically with the human feet. 



As this subject bears very directly on the question, how 

 far Man is entitled, in a purely zoological classification, to 

 rank as an order apart, I shall proceed to cite, in an abridged 

 form, the words of the lecturer above alluded to. * 



6 To gain,' he observes, ' a precise conception of the resem 

 blances and differences of the hand and foot, and of the 

 distinctive characters of each, we must look below the skin, 

 and compare the bony framework and its motor apparatus in 

 each. 



( The foot of Man is distinguished from his hand by 



6 1. The arrangement of the tarsal bones. 



6 2. By having a short flexor and a short extensor muscle 

 of the digits. 



( 3. By possessing the muscle termed peronceus longus. 

 And if we desire to ascertain whether the terminal division 



* Professor Huxley's third lecture been embodied with the rest of the 

 1 On the Motor Organs of Man com- course in his forthcoming work, en- 

 pared with those of other Animals,' de- titled, ' Evidence as to Man's Place in 

 livered in the Eoyal School of Mines, Nature.' Williams & Norgate, London. 

 in Jermyn Street (March 1861), has 



