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PREFACE. 
But, to return to a review of the condition in which the materials were found: the 
majority of the Plates for their illustration were well advanced, some of the Bodentia 
were even completed as early as 1893, whilst a considerable amount of Manuscript 
had been revised by the Author himself, who had seen it type-written in the early 
months of 1900. 
The section devoted to the Cercopithecidae had been thus written out; the Collotype 
Plates of skulls of baboons had been all selected by himself from the large collection 
of photographs taken for his use in the Natural History Museum at Berlin, in the 
autumn of 1899, when Professor Moebius had generously facilitated his researches by 
requesting, by telegraph, from the different Museums in Germany—Stuttgart, 
Darmstadt, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Munich, and Hamburg—the specimens which 
proved so valuable in the way of comparison; and Dr. Anderson has frequently referred 
to his indebtedness to the Directors of the different Institutions who gave so prompt 
and courteous a response to Prof. Moebius’s application. Also it must not be omitted 
here to record the valuable assistance so cheerfully rendered to Dr. Anderson, in his 
researches in the Berlin Museum, by Mr. Paul Matschie, the Curator of the 
Mammal Collection. 
In July 1900, the artist, Mr. P. J. Smit, had been sent to Berlin and Cologne 
to figure living specimens of baboons in the Zoological Gardens of those cities; 
oidy one, however, of the water-colour sketches of baboons—that of Papio anubis — 
was seen and approved by Dr. Anderson, the remainder being brought to London too 
late to have the advantage of his criticism : nor was it considered desirable to make 
any modifications in the text, consequent on any apparent want of accord between 
the descriptions and the drawings; hence these have been reproduced as Plates, by 
Messrs. Mintern, Brothers, very much as they Avere received. 
No attempt has been made to supplement the few references to ‘Mammals on 
the Monuments ’ scattered through the text. On this subject Dr. Anderson had 
gone so far as to have some notes and tracings made out for his use, by that expert 
in Egyptology, Mr. F. Llewellyn Griffith. It is Avell known, however, that one object 
the author had in view in his study of the living animals, especially the baboons, 
