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THE GEOLOGIST. 



origin by secondary law, yet I advocate no theory which derives man- 

 kind from any known recent or fossil species of animal. Convinced 

 of the distinctive peculiarities of the human brain, characters not 

 satisfactorily demonstrated in any animal, yet I do not shut my eyes 

 to the analogy which sometimes exists between the structures in the 

 lowest men and the highest apes. Affirming both man's psychologi- 

 cal supremacy, as "a little lower than the angels," and his physiolo- 

 gical adaptation as the highest of animals, contradicting neither the 

 clicrished and captivating precepts of Teleology, nor the bold and 

 comprehensive generalizations of Morphology, the palaeontologist who 

 loves truth alone for truth's sake has most need to join in the prayer 

 of Bunsen, 



" Father ! as upward I gaze, strengthen my eye and my heart." 



Geological science, steadily progressing since the time of Cuvier, 

 in whose time no species of fossil monkey was known, now discloses 

 to us no fewer than thirteen species of Quadriimana, as by the an- 

 nexed table : — 





Eocene. 



Miocene. 



Plioceue. 



Locality. 



Catarrhini (Old World Monkeys) 















* 





France : Gers. 



Miopithccus antiquus 









France : Gers. 



^Icsopithecus Pentclicus 





* 





Greece : Pikermi. 



Mesopithecus major 





* 





Greece : Pikermi. 



Scmuopithecus magnus 







* 



India : Sewalik. 



Scmnopithecus sp 







* 



India. 



Semnopithecus monspessulanus 









France : Montpellier. 



Macacns pliocenus 









Engl.: Grays, Essex. 



Eopiihecus Colchesteri 



* 







Engl: Kyson, Suffolk. 



Platyrrhini (Now World Monkeys) 









rrolopithccus Brasiliensis 







* 



Brazil. 



Cebus niiicion-nathus 









Brazil. 



Callilln-i\ priiiKCVUS 







* 



Brazil. 



Jarrhus uraiulis 









Brazil. 



It is worthy of remark that no fossil species of Strepsirhine Qua- 

 druinaua, or Lemurs, has hitherto been discovered ; but when we re- 

 flect on tlic restricted locality of the modern Lemuridcs to Madagascar 

 and to a few of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, countries where 

 the -ooh^-ist's h ammcr lias not yet rung, we may reasonably expect 

 that tlu> iiuhkstry of t^uch enterprising travellers as Dr. Sandwith may 

 proiMuv lor u^^ evidence of fossil Lemurs. The a priori analogy in 

 favour of their existence in the tertiary strata rests upon the fact 



