1S2 



DE. H. P. STANDING ON SUBFOSSIL 



Table 19.— -Giving dimensions 



8 Kumeri of Megalada])is [1-8]. 



1 humerus oi Palceopropithecus [9]. 



4 humeri of ArclicBolemur edwardsi [10-13]. 



the descent of Man would be traceable by a line collateral to that of the Simiidee 

 from a Tertiary "Lemuroid" ancestor. To connect such ancestor with progenitors of 

 a degraded form like Megaladapis may at first sight seem unreasonable, but we have 

 evidence which apparently warrants our connecting the Lemurinse with such ape-like 

 forms as Archceolerimr. If, then, we are correct in classing Megaladapis among the 

 Malagasy LemurinEe, there is a strong probability that its ancestors were once 

 as far advanced as Archceolemiir in brain-development. The occurrence in the 

 ancestry of the Hominidse and Simiidse of forms as low in the scale as the ape-like 

 progenitors of Archceolemur and Hadropithecus is at all events only a question of 

 greater or less remoteness in geological time ; and if it is necessary to trace back the 

 lines of descent of such nearly related forms as the Hominidee and Simiidse to middle 

 or early Tertiary times to arrive at their common ancestry, we see at any rate how in 



