680 The American Naturalist. [August, 
work, “ Das Antlitz der Erde,” has fully demonstrated the 
fallacy of this theory. If Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace” would 
have studied this work and those of W. T. Blanford, O. Feist- 
mantel, W. Waagen, Melchior Neumayer, and others, he could 
not have accepted the theory of the permanence of the great 
oceanic basins, which he still defends in 1892, quoting the late 
Prof. Dana, Mr. Darwin, Sir Archibald Geikie, Dr. John Mur- 
ray, Rev. O. Fisher and hunraslf as authorities, not mentioning 
any of the names just given. 
We know now that there existed a Lemuria or Gondwana 
Land, an Antarctic Continent,” which extended to India, South 
Africa, South America, and that the Pacific Ocean has not 
been an ocean since paleeozoic or archzean times, but is proba- 
bly even of recent (Tertiary) date. 
In order to reach correct conclusions about these often very 
complicated questions, it is necessary to use all the data offered 
by modern geographical and paleontological distribution of 
fauna and of flora geology. 
(To be Continued.) 
ON THE AFFINITIES OF TARSIUS: A CONTRIBU- 
TION TO THE PHYLOGENY OF THE PRIMATES. 
By CHARLES EARLE. 
(Continued from page 575.) 
The female reproductive system of the Lemurs recalls that 
of the Anthropoids. It is interesting to note that in Lemur 
Propithecus and Indris only one young is produced at a birth; 
whether this ewes of young is typical of the whole suborder 
2 Wallace, Dr. A. Russel. The Permanence of the Great Oceanic Basins. 
Nat. Science, Vol. I, a 6, August, 1892, p- 418-426 ; and “ Island Life,” second 
ed., 1892 
* Seward, A. C. The Glossopteris Flora. Science Progress, New Series, Vol. 
I, No. 2, January, 1897, p. 178-201. (This paper gives the Bibliography relat- 
‘ing to the Anarctic continent. ) 
