SOME QUEER-NOSED MONKEYS 
Or all the features of the human countenance none seems 
more prone to exhibit marked variations in size and shape 
than the nose. A broad and flattened nose, is, for instance, 
characteristic of negroes and Australian natives, whereas 
the classic or Grecian nose is found only among the highest 
types of the Caucasian races of Europe. But while the 
nasal organs of the lower races of mankind differ in general 
from those of the higher peoples of Western Europe, yet 
it is among the latter that perhaps the greatest amount 
of variation in this respect may be noticed. And although 
even among these mixed Western nations a- considerable 
amount of such nasal variability is evidently hereditary 
and distinctive of particular families or races, yet there 
are many instances in which it appears largely individual, 
although it may, of course, be due to reversion. Be this 
as it may, it will suffice for our present purpose to note 
that among European races a distinctly ‘‘ snub-nosed,” or 
“tip-tilted,” type is not uncommon on the one extreme, 
while at the other we have what is commonly called the 
“long-nosed” type; the latter being broadly distinguished 
from the arched Roman, or aquiline, nose. 
Now, it is a remarkable fact in natural history that 
whereas the great majority of the monkeys and apes of 
the Old World have noses of an ordinary pattern—that is 
to say, not very far removed from the type characterising 
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