200 VESTIGES OF THE 



Typical .... Bimana. 



Sub-typical .... Himiada^. 



Natatorial .... YospertilioniLlcG. 



Suctorial .... Lcmuridse. 



Easoiial .... Cebida}. 



Here man is put into tlie typical place, as the genuine 

 head, not only of this order, but of the whole animal 

 world. The double affinity which is requisite is ob- 

 tained, for here he has the simiadie on one hand, and 

 the cebidre on the other. The five tribes of the order 

 are completed, the vespertilionid?e being shifted (pro- 

 visionally) into the natatorial place, for which their ap- 

 propriateness is so far evidenced by the aquatic habits of 

 several of the tribe,* and the lemurid.© into the suctorial, 

 to which their length of muzzle and remarkable salta- 

 tory power are highly suitable. At the same time, the 

 simiada^ are degraded from the typical place, to which 

 they have no sort of pretension, and placed where their 

 mean character seems to require; the cebidas again 

 being assigned that situation which their comparatively 

 inofiensive dispositions, their arboreal habits, and their 

 extraordinary development of the tail (which with them 

 is like a fifth hand), render so proper. 



The zoological status thus assigned to the human race 

 is precisely what might be expected. In order to under- 

 stand its full value, it is necessary to observe how the 

 various type peculiarities operate in fixing the character 

 of the animals ranked in them. It is easy to conceive 



* " It is probable tliat the pterodactyle had the power of swiraiuitig, 

 which is so common in reptiles, and which is now possessed by the 

 pteropus pselaphon, or vampire bat, of the island of Benin." — Buck- 

 land's " Bridgewater Treatise." This is the more valuable as a testi- 

 mony to the natatorial character of the vespertilionidse, that Dr. 

 Buckland wrote without the least regard to, or perhaps knowledge of, 

 the ]\racleay system. 



