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The Ancestry of Nasua. fet, 
= . say. I could see the traits but could not demonstrate them. At 
a best I could but quote the great poet: 
«Such seething brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends.” 
; 2. That which backed up the imagination was the psychologi- 
cal or mental manifestation. Here were data for comparison, in > 
such well-marked lines ran the parallels of expression of the 
t Nasuan and the monkey mind. The hints afforded in the com- 
: plex use made of the hands and the tail—the many unmistakable 
_ monkey didos, or antics, which came not of training nor of aping, 
but of real generic aptitudes. These all pointed to a physical 
correspondence, and looked directly to ancestral inheritance. 
3. Ithink it was in 1873, the year after the appearance of my 
article, that an interesting anatomical discovery was announced 
i by the great academician, the successor of Cuvier, Henri Milne- 
3 Edwards. He had dissected a Nasua and had discovered in the 
E . limb bones of this animal structural alliances to the lemurs, or 
Nate lowest monkeys. Here was, indeed, a pleasant and important 
A confirmatory fact. 
4 nt But to round up the proof, one more class of evidence is 
i needed, the testimony of palæontology. In behalf of the extinct 
‘ animals will the fossils bear witness in this matter?. The writer ~ 
y Was instructor in the natural sciences in the grammar school or is 
X preparatory department’ of Rutgers College, when he received r 
from its author a pamphlet “On the principal types of the orders 
of Mammalia Educabilia,” by Professor E. D. Cope; read before ` 
the American Philosophical Society, April 18, 1873. My eyes — | 
! caught a foot-note to one of the pages, thus: “ Dr. Lockwood, of 
Rutgers College, in a recent number of the Popular Science 
_ Monthly, expressed serious suspicions of the quadrumanous rela- 
__ Honships of the Coati, little thinking at the time that the speci- 
_ Mens to confirm his view were at that moment in the hands of 3 - 
_ this world’s life-history had consisted of animals of a very low 
? meee on the mammalian lines. Technically they are classed as 
the Ineducabilia, In the Eocene days the creative. force was 
oe on higher lines of life. Then were produced the 
