


992 The American Naturalist. '[November, 
monster. The discovery of similar crania near Cannstadt, Wür- 
temberg, rendered it certain that the type was widely distributed iu 
Europe, and was not a mere anomaly, and # received the name 
of the Canstatter race. * A lower jaw which presents some simian 
characters was found at Naulette, Belgium ; but as the lower jaw 
of the Canstatters had not been found, its probable relation to 
this race could not be proven. The two neatly complete skeletons 
of Spy have completed the evidence as to the characters of. the 
race. Not only does the lower jaw of Naulette belong to it, but 
some of the parts of the skeleton display characters more dis- 
tinctly simian than any known race. The tibia is distinctly 
, shorter than is characteristic of other- men, and the femur is- 
curved anteroposteriorly, as in the chimpanzee. Taking it 
altogether, the Canstatter race answers the expectations founded 
on theory as to what an ancestral type of man ought to be. 
Distinct traces of it are’ said to have been found also in Bohemia > 
France. 
Se The senior editor of the NATURALIST has expressed the view _ 
~, that the anthropoid apes and man were probably descended 
from the anthropoid lemur Anaptomorphus, without passing the — 
intervention of the true monkeys of the Old-World type (Cerco- 
pithecide). Probable confirmation of this view has been © 
_Tecently brought forward by M. Ameghino, of Buenos Ayres, 
in the discovery of a new species of a new genus of quadru- 
manous mammal from Patagonia, which he calls Homunculus — 
patagonicus. At first regarding it as an anthropoid lemur, M. 
Ameghino now places it in the Simiidæ or Old-World monkeys ; 
: but whether he means by this the anthropoids or the true mon- 
_ keys, is not yet clear. It is, however, apparently intermediate in 
| the characters of the skull and teeth ween the lemurine | 
_ Anaptomorphus and. the anthropoid apes, with some human 
-dental characteristics found in the former. From any point of 
view, the discovery of M. Ameghino is of high importance, since 
7 P in the fossil `o or recent atete i in Eae Aei E 
neither lemurs nor Old-World monkeys have been hitherto met 
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