70 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



sophy as originally an ascidian tadpole, 

 or ghost of a sea squirt, to the last of your 

 prehistoric ancestors as seen in the old- 

 world monkey, I would direct your atten- 

 tion to what Darwin says about this 

 important member of your ancestral 

 pedigree. He has succeeded in finding 

 the noble and intellectual forehead of man, 

 together with those facial appointments of 

 which he is naturally so proud viz., beard, 

 whisker, and moustache "in the Bonnet 

 Monkey ; " and though he admits that " in 

 man the nose is much more prominent 

 than in most monkeys," you may 

 easily trace the fine old Eoman nose an 

 " aquiline curvature," as he terms it in 

 another of your simian ancestors, the 

 Horlock Gibbon, which he tells you is there 

 carried to such a ridiculous extent, as fully 

 to justify the propriety of the title to one of 

 the tales of the 19th century, entitled the 

 Nose with the Man! So Darwin considers 

 that "the resemblance of the Pitheca Sata- 

 nas (of the monkey tribe, noted for its 

 magnificent beard and tail), his jet black 



