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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 
cherished 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 tlie time of Cuvier, 
in whose time no species of fossil monkey was known, now discloses 
to us no fewer than thirteen species of Quadrumana, as by the an- 
nexed table : — 
Eocene. Miocene. Pliocene. 
Catarrhini (Old ^Yorld Monkeys) 
Dryopithecus Fontani 
Pliopithecus antiquus 
jNIesopithecus Pentelicus 
iMesopithecus major 
Semiiopithecus magnus 
Semncpithecus sp 
Seinnopithecus monspessulanus 
Macacns pliocenus 
Eopithecus Colchesteri 
Platyrrhini (New "World Monkeys) 
Protopithecus Brasiliensis. . . 
Cehus macroguathus 
Callithrix prima^vus 
Jacchus grandis 
Locality. 
France : Gers. 
France : Gers. 
Greece : Pikermi. 
Greece : Pikermi. 
India : Sewalik. 
India. 
France : Montpellier. 
Engl. : Grays, Essex. 
Engl. : Kyson, Suffolk 
Brazil. 
Brazil. 
Brazil. 
Brazil. 
It is worthy of remark that no fossil species of Strepsirhine Qua- 
drumana, or Lemurs, has hitherto been discovered ; but when we re- 
flect on the restricted locality of the modern Lemiirida: to Madagascar 
and to a few of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, countries where 
the geologist's hammer has not yet rung, we may reasonably expect 
that the industry of such enterprising travellers as Dr. Sandwith may 
procure for us evidence of fossil Lemurs. The a priori analogy in 
favour of their existence in the tertiary strata rests upon the fact 
