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MAMMALIAN GALLERY. 



Order I. PRIMATES. 



(Cases 1-10.) 



The Primates consist of Man, Monkeys, and Lemurs. The 

 Monkeys most nearly allied to Man are the so-called Anthropoid * 

 Apes (the Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang Outang, and Gibbons), 

 which in many points of their internal structure approach 

 more nearly to Man than to the other Monkeys, though their 

 resemblance to him, both in osteological and external characters, 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 1. Skull of Man. Fig. 2. Skull of old j and fig. 3, of young Gorilla. 

 * From the Greek anthropos, Man; anthropoid = Man-like. 



