ANTHROPOID APES 



By ROBEBT HARTMANN, 



Professor in the University of Berlin. 



With. 63 Illustrations - 12mo, cloth, $1.75. 



"The anthropoid, or manlike or tailless, apes include tho gorilla and chimpnnzee 

 of tropical Africa, the oran-r of Borneo :ind Sumatra, and the gibbons ol the East 

 Indies. India, and some other pirts of Asia. ') be author of the present work h:i3 

 given much attention to the group. Like most living zoologists he is an evolutionist, 

 and holds thut man can not have descended from any of the fossil species which have 

 hitherto co.ne under our notice, nor yet from any of the species now extant: it is 

 more prob-ible that both types have been produced from a common ground-form 

 which has become extinct/' T,ie Nation. 



" This Berlin professor is constrained, after a full presentation of the opinions and 

 arguments of scientists and philosophars, and a careful collection :md analysis of 

 recent facts and observation, to declare : " A great chasm between man and anthro- 

 poids is constitu ed, as I believe, by t e fact that the human race is capable of educa- 

 tion, and is able to acquire the highest mental culture, whiie the most intelligent 

 anthropoid can only receive a certain mechanical training." J\ew }ork Observer. 



"It will be found, by those who follow the author's exegesis with the heed and 

 candor it deserves, that t ie simian ance-try of man does not :is yet rest upon such 

 solid and perfected proofs as to warrant the assumption of absolute certainty in which 

 materialists indulge. 1 ' New York Sun. 



"'The International Scientific Series' has now reached its fifty-recond volume. 

 Started as a venture, the res ilt of which was very f'oubtful. the series ha* made its 

 own way into the colleges, academies, ana public and private libraries of the country. 

 Its secure position is dua to th.3 uniform excellence or the works which bear its name, 

 and to the faith, energy, and capital of 1). Appletpn & 'o. This ho-ise knows by long 

 experience that it pays to publish first- cl.iss scientific works. If the tone of such 

 books see:ns at first to ba too high for the pubiic taste, then it only remains to educate 

 the people up to them. This has been successfully done in the case ot 'The Inter- 

 national Scientific Series.' One of its murked characteristics is the fullness of treat- 

 ment accorded to every subject in every volume. Thus in the fifty-second issue re- 

 lating to ' Anthropoid Apes,' the author, Professor Hnrtmann. of the University of 

 Berlin, tells everything tlr.it one could possibly care to know at out the ap?s whose 

 physical structure most nearly resembles that of man. It contains all that's in the 

 libraries, plus a mass of the author's original observations. The goi ilia, chimpanzee, 

 oranir-outang, and gibbon, undergo a minute and profound examination in wi.d life, 

 in caiitivity. and in the dissecting-room. There are more than 3 pages of this novel 

 and interesting matter, accompanied by sixty-three illustrations. When the attentive 

 r.-ader has finished the bonk he possesses all that science has yet discovered about the 

 nature aud habits of anthropoid apes." New York Journal of Commerce. 



" The most able and satisfactory summary of our knowledge upon this important 

 brauch of science which has yet appeared." Boston Courier. 



"The work is necessarily less complete than Huxley's monograph on 'The Craw- 

 fish.' or Mivart's on 'The Cat.' but it is a worthy companion of those brilliant works; 

 aad in saying this we bestow praise equally hi^h and deserved." Boston Gazette. 



'The arrangement of the work is most satisfactory. Th.3 volume is one of 

 tha moat entertaining of the series." Hartford Evening Pod. 



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