ARBOREAL ACTIVITIES OF MODERN MAN 211 



that it is somewhat less perfectly performed. Modern 

 European man has no doubt lost his foot-grasp so thor- 

 oughly that when he takes to climbing he learns a new 

 and human method, but his less trammelled brother still 

 conducts the business upon its primitive lines, and does 

 it far better. Nor is the original method beyond the reach 

 of the European, for upon the stage acrobats and animal 

 impersonators periodically appear, possessing every 

 feature of the typical arboreal activities of the Primates. 



