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Members' Room 



Monkeys 

 and Apes 



THIRD FLOOR 



SOUTH PAVILION 



1. Monkeys, Apes and Primitive Man 

 2. Rodents 



The primates, the monkeys and apes of the world, occupy the South 

 Pavilion of the third floor, the first hall at the left as one 

 turns from the elevators. These animals in structure and 

 brain capacity resemble man more closely than do any 

 other of the mammals, but while man and the apes have sprung from a 

 common ancestor, in no sense has man descended from the existing apes. 



A family of orang-utans, the most powerful and most ferocious 

 Orang-utan , . . . . , , 



Group a P es ' 1S sncnvn m a case on tne south side of the 



hall. In another case the skeleton of a chimpanzee, " Mr. 

 Crowley," and of a gorilla are placed beside a skeleton of a man to allow 

 a study of the similarities in structure. 



On the other side of the hall will be found the bats, the only mammals 



R , . that really fly, and the hares and other rodents, among which 



the rat, mice and squirrels are familiar examples. The 



rodents are the most numerous and the most widely distributed of the 



mammals. 



Suspended from the ceiling in the center of the hall is a skeleton of a 

 North Atlantic right whale which is more than forty feet in length. The 



