Anthropoid Apes, 



By BOBEBT HABXJJIANN, 



Professor in the University of Berlin. 



With 63 Illustrations - - - - 12mo, cloth, $1.75. 



"The anthropoid, or minlike or taillesa. apes include the (jorilla and chimpnnzee 

 of tropical Africa, the oraner of Borneo iind Samatra, and the gibbons ot the East 

 Indies. India, and some other pircs of Asia. 'I he imthor of the present work h:is 

 given much attention to the group. Like most living zi>ologiBts be is an evolutionist, 

 aod holds that man can not have descended from any of thi* fossil species which have 

 hitherto come under our notice, nor yet from any of the species now extfint: it is 

 more probable that both types have been produced from a common ground-form 

 which has become extinct," — Ti%e Nation. 



" This Berlin professor is constrained, after a full presentation of the opinions and 

 arguments of scientists and philosophsi'fi, and a careful collection and anutysis of 

 rceent facts and observation, to declare : '"' A great chasm between man and anthro- 

 poids is constitu::ed, as 1 believe, by the fact that the human race is capable of educa- 

 tion, and is able to acquiru the highest mental culture, while the most intelligent 

 aathropoid can only receive a certain mechanical training." — Itew lork Observer. 



" It will be found, by those who follow the author's exegesis with the heed and 

 candor it deserves, that t'le simian ancestry of man does nut as yet rest upon such 

 solid and perfected proofs as to warrant the assumption of absolute certainty in which 

 materialists indulge."— JPezif York Sun. 



"'The Internationa! Scientific Series' has now reached its fifty-second volume. 

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 lu secure position is dus to ihs aniform excellence of the works which bear its name, 

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 ment accorded to every subject in every volume. Thus in the fifty-second issue re- 

 lating to * Anthropoid Apes,' the author, Professor llartmann, of the University of 

 Berlin, tells everything th.it one could possibly care to know al out the ap3s wbose 



{)hysical structun.* most nearly resembles that of man. It coutitins all that is in ihe 

 ibraries. plus a mass of the author's original observations. The gniilla, chimpanz'je, 

 orang-outang, and gibbon, undergo a minute and profound examination— in wiid li.'e, 

 In captivity, and in the dissecting-room. There are more than SjO pages ofthia novel 

 and interesting matter, accompanied by sixty-three illustrations. When the attentive 

 r>;ader has finished the bonk he pos^^osses all that science ha.-i yet discovenid about the 

 nature and habits of anthropoid apes."— iVew York Journal (if Commeice^ 



" The most able and siitisfactory summary of our knowledge upon this important 

 branch of science which has yet appeared."— Boston Courier, 



"The work is necessarily less complete than Huxley's monoirrapb on ' The Craw- 

 fish,' or Mivart's on 'The Cat,' but it is a worthy companion of those brilliant works; 

 aad in saj-lng this we bestow praise equally high and deserved." — Boston Gjtzette. 



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