THE WORLD OF MONKEYS. 
possibly be got at amidst all the noisy debates, divisions, and cheers and counter-cheers of this Apes’ 
Parliament. There would be clearly two sides to this house of representatives, the Americans and 
the Old World-ites, and the most uncritical observer would separate them. It never entered into the 
mind of a Monkey of the Old World to have a tail which would be as useful as another leg and hand, 
and as manageable as if it had an eye at its tip — that is an invention of Dame Nature in the American 
tropics, and is an evident improvement. Now this tail is visible enough, and so is another American 
peculiarity. The Monkeys there have a broad end to the nose, and the openings of the nostrils look 
outwards, being separated by a thick gristle; but those of the Old World have a thin gristle in the 
same place, and the nostrils are not wide apart but open in front, more or less like those of men and dogs. 
Here are, then, two (i parties/* those with nostrils wide apart with a wide and tldck gristle — “ broad 
noses,” called in scientific language “ Platyrrhines *” ; and those with the nostrils “ looking down- 
ward,” or “ Catarrhines.”t 
The great American section, or that of the broad-noses, is split up to a certain extent, for all have 
not long prehensile tails, those of some being short ; and others have them feeble in strength and 
almost brushy with fur. Here are, then, the means of readily knowing one set from another, so far 
as these far travelled Monkeys are concerned. 
The Old World section, with its close and downward-looking nostrils, at first sight appears very 
united, but after a little noticing there seem to be many different groups in it. Firstly, the com- 
monest kinds make up for the absence of a clinging tail, such as their American cousins have, by having 
something which the Transatlantics would be glad of, namely, cheek pouches — comfortable receptacles 
for nuts and such delicacies within the mouth, where food can be kept as in a cupboard, until it 
* ttAciti is, flat or broad ; pives, nostrils. f Kara, downwards; bivls, nostrils. 
ONE OE TIIE ANTHROFOMOltPHA — THE CHIMPANZEE. 
