ORDINARY MEETING, Marca 2, 1885. 
W. N. West, Esq. (Hon. Tras.) IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
WAS PRIMEVAL MAN A SAVAGE? By J. Hassezt, 
Hsq., A.K.C.Lond. 
O the question at the head of this paper an emphatic 
affirmative is given by many of the leading men of 
science in the present day. Professor Haeckel, for instance, 
says, “‘ As the twentieth stage in the human pedigree, next to 
these tailed apes, we must rank the tailless man-like apes 
(anthropoides), under which name the most highly-developed 
catarhines, those most nearly related to man, have been 
grouped. They originated from the tailed catarhines by the 
loss of the tail, the partial loss of their hairy covering, and a 
further development of the brain. It is evident that no single 
one of these existing man-like apes is among the direct 
ancestors of the human race; they are all the last scattered 
remnants of an old catarhine branch, once numerous, from 
which the human race has developed, as a special branch 
and im a special direction. Although man ranks next to 
this anthropoid family, from which he doubtless directly 
originated, yet the ape-men (Pithe canthropi) may be 
inserted here, as an important intermediate form between 
the two, and as the twenty-first state in our ancestral series.” 
The learned Professor goes on to say: “In the Natural 
ITistory of Creation” (vol. ii. p. 298) ‘‘I have applied 
this name to the speechless primitive men who made 
their appearance in what is usually called the human form, 
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