300 ME, ST. GEORGE MIVART ON THE SKELETON OF THE PRIMATES. 
daily my thanks are due ; nor can I refrain from expressing my admiration of the 
liberal spirit in which the magnificent collection placed under his zealous supervision 
is made available to cultivators of natural science. 
After considering the skeleton of each entire limb, and of every segment of each, and 
describing the several bones in some detail, after also giving the dimensions and propor- 
tions of these parts, I propose to consider the number and value of the peculiarities pre- 
sented by the more aberrant forms, and especially by Man, and finally to enumerate 
some of the more obvious characters of the several groups (as deducible from their 
appendicular skeleton), and the relations thence derivable of such groups to each other. 
The arrangement here adopted as to the families, subfamilies, and genera of the 
Order is as follows : — 
Suborder I. Anthropoidea. 
Family. 
I. Homistdr*; 
II. SlSIIIDAS 
l'' 1. Simiince 
Subfamily \ 2. Semnopithecince .... 
3. Cynopithecince 
Homo. 
{ Troglodytes. 
Simia. 
Hylobates. 
f Semuopitbeeus. 
1 Colobus. 
f Cercopitbecus. 
I Macacus. 
III. CEBIDiE 
IY. HaPALID-E 
Subfamily ^ 
1. Cebince 
2. Mycetince . 
3. Pitheciince 
b 4. Nyctipithecince 
l Cynocepbalus. 
f Ateles. 
i Lagotbrix. 
I Cebus. 
Mycetes. 
f Pytbecia. 
1 Bracbyurus. 
r CaUitbrix. 
i Cbrysotbrix. 
I Nyctipitbecus. 
Hapale. 
Suborder II. Lemuboidea. 
f 1 - 
Indrisince 
Y. Lemxtrid.® 
VI. TAESIIDiE . . 
VI!. 0nEIB,OMYIDiE 
2, Lemurince 
Subfamily b 
3. Nycticebince 
' v - 4. Gdlagiuince 
i lndris.* 
Propitbecus. 
Hicr orbyncbus . 
{ Lemur. 
Hapalemur. 
Micro cebus. 
Lepilemur. 
r Nycticebus. 
) Loris. 
] Perodicticus. 
lArctocebus. 
Galago. 
Tarsius. 
Cbeb’omys. 
* Since tbis paper was read I have bad, through the great kindness of Professor Peters, an opportunity of 
examining a skull of the species for which the genus Propithecus was instituted. I am now convinced that 
the three above-mentioned genera of Indrisince constitute but a single natural genus — Indris. See Proceed, 
ool. Soc. 1867, p. 247. 
