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suffused with tears. A similar slight effusion occurred 

 ten days previously in both eyes during a screaming-fit. 

 The tears did not run over the eyelids and roll down the 

 cheeks of this child, while screaming badly, when one 

 hundred and twenty-two days old. This first happened 

 seventeen days later, at the age of one hundred and 

 thirty-nine days. A few other children have been ob- 

 served for me, and the period of free weeping appears to 

 be very variable. In one case, the eyes became slightly 

 suffused at the ago of only twenty days ; in another, at 

 sixty-two days. With two other children, the tears did 

 not run down the face at the ages of eighty-four and 

 one hundred and ten days ; but in a third child they did 

 run down at the age of one hundred and four days. In 

 one instance, as I was positively assured, tears ran down 

 at the unusually early age of forty-two days. It would 

 appear as if the lachrymal glands required some practice 

 in the individual before they are easily excited into action, 

 in somewhat the same manner as various inherited con- 

 sensual movements and tastes require some exercise be- 

 fore they are fixed and perfected. This is all the more 

 likely with a habit like weeping, which must have been 

 acquired since the period when man branched off from 

 the common progenitor of the genus Romo and of the 

 non-weeping anthropomorphous apes. 



p j„ A woman, who sold a monkey to the Zoo- 



logical Society, believed to have come from 

 Borneo {Macacus maurus or M. inornatus of Gray), said 

 that it often cried ; and Mr. Bartlett, as well as the 

 keeper Mr. Sutton, have repeatedly seen it, when grieved, 

 or even when much pitied, weeping so copiously that the 



tears rolled down its cheeks. 

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