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are to be found in museums ; but they are of little use, and 

 by no means calculated to produce pleasurable sensations. 



We may safely predict, that no method will ever be dis- 

 covered, by which Man can be preserved, so as to be fit for 

 placing in a Museum. 



ORDER II. QUADRUMANA. 



The animals which approach nearest to Man, are the nu- 

 merous tribes of Apes and Monkeys, and their congeners. 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



One of the chief difficulties to contend with, in setting up 

 Monkeys and Apes, is the preservation of their hands, and 

 hind hands, or what are commonly called their feet ; because 

 we must not attempt to deprive these limbs of their flesh, as 

 we never could again supply its place, any thing like what it 

 is in nature. The hand must therefore be dried, and then well 

 imbued with turpentine, and the solution of corrosive sublimate, 

 repeated eight or ten times at least, at intervals of four or five 

 days. The other parts of the stuffing should be exactly similar 

 to that recommended for quadrupeds generally. The paws of 

 several will require to be coloured with the different varnishes, 

 and, when dry, slightly polished with fine sand paper, to 

 remove the gloss. The callosities, on the hinder parts of many 

 of them, will also require to be coloured, and treated in the 

 same way as the face. We may instance the Mandrill ( Cyn- 

 ocephalus MarmonJ, the Atys Monkey ( Cercopithecus Atys) > 

 the Fair Monkey (Jacchus ArgenlatusJ, and others. 



ORDER III. CHEIROPTERA. 



THE FLYING LEMUR ( GdkopitheCUS 



Has a large flexible membrane, which envelopes the feet and 



extremities, and even the fingers and tail. This membrane 



should be laid open from within, and the preservative plenti- 



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