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NATURAL HISTORY. 
is required, or can be enjoyed in safety. These are the valuable properties of many of the smaller 
African tribes. Then they also have, in the absence of soft clothes and comfortable chairs to sit 
upon, fur or hair and a natural hardness or callosity,” or seat, which does not wear out, and which 
is often strangely coloured. Another group has no cheek pouches, but it possesses the callosities, and 
these less favoured creatures come mainly from Asia and the great islands, and only a few from 
Africa. 
Finally, the most important group of the section consists of the large Apes, with neither tails, 
callosities, nor cheek pouches, but having very man-like features ; for instance, the great Troglodytes, 
Chimpanzees, and Orangs, the first two from Africa, and the last from the great Asiatic islands and the 
mainland. 
These tribes could be, with more study (especially if the merry company were broken up by the 
ONE OF THE CYNOMOKPJIA — THE BABOON. 
anatomist taking them one by one and dissecting them), divided over and over again, and separated 
into kinds or species, which would not, however, always tally with the corresponding arrangement of 
the naturalist, who would go by the skin and the outside of the animals. 
One thing would be quite clear to every one, and that is that some of the creatures greatly resemble 
man at first sight, and that although this likeness diminishes with study, still there is a group, 
which deserves the title of the “ man-shaped.” Others form a group which go usually on all fours, 
looking like dogs, more or less, and they are the u dog-shaped,” but they of course retain the more 
01 * less man-like peculiarities which characterise the whole of the Monkeys. 
Hence, after all these divisions and differences and resemblances have been mastered, it would be 
found that the noisy assemblage could be arranged as follows : — 
1. — Catarrh ines. — Old World Monkeys, man-shaped and dog-shaped. 
2. — Platyrrhines. — New World Monkeys. 
The first section, the CatarrMnes , may be divided into the man-shaped, or in the Greek the 
Anthropomorpha , and the dog-shaped, or the Cynomorpha. 
