YERTEBEATA. 



No. 4. Homo. 



Skeleton, found on the north-eastern coast 

 of the ruain-land of Guadaloupe, in a bed of mod- 

 ern concretionary limestone. The rock contains, 

 the detritus of shells and corals of species now 

 inhabiting the neighboring sea (some of the cora] 

 still retaining the same red color now seen in 

 reefs of living coral which surround the island), 

 land-shells, fragments of pottery, stone arrow- 

 heads, carved wooden ornaments, and detached 

 human bones. The parts preserved in this speci- 

 men are the spinal column, many of the ribs, the 

 left arm, pelvis, thighs and legs. These bon es still 

 contain some animal matter, and the whole of 

 their phosphate of lime. The original is in the 

 British Museum ; the skull is in the Medical Col- 

 lege of Charleston, S. C. 



Size, 4ft. 7 in. x 2ft. Price, $20.00. 



Order 2 — Qttadrtjmana. 



These Mammals, the most anthropoid of Brutes, are characterized 

 hy prehensile feet as well as hands. In all the genera above the Lemurs 

 of Madagascar, the same number and kinds of teeth are present as in 



]\I an the deviation being the disproportionate size of the canines 



and the concomitant break in the dental series. The skull of the Great 

 Apes is distinguished by a prominent superorbital ridge. 



Cuvier held that the Quadrumana were scarcely, if at all, anterior to 

 Mani n order of creation. Lyell was the first (1830) to express a doubt of 

 the total absence of fossil anthropomorphous tribes. In 1839 fragments 

 of the lower jaw of a Monkey (Eopithecus) were discovered by Owen in 

 the London Clay, on the banks of the Deben, Eng. Since then, remains 

 have been found in the Sewalik Hills, India ; in the Miocene strata of 

 Southern France and of Greece, and in the Pliocene of France and 

 Brazil. None of the Lemuridas have been discovered fossil. 



