. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 200 QUADRUMANA. bones, and meets there the sagittal suture, which is evidently a proof of inferiority, as A. G. Otto indicated a few years ago.* The depressed chin, the narrowness of the inter- orbital space, the single nasal bone in most of the genus, are the other characters by which the Semnopitheci show their lower rank in the animal kingdom. This lower rank, however, is much more evident in the Inui, in which the prominent bony muzzle, the elevated superciliary ridges, the depressed forehead, the flat receptacle for
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 200 QUADRUMANA. bones, and meets there the sagittal suture, which is evidently a proof of inferiority, as A. G. Otto indicated a few years ago.* The depressed chin, the narrowness of the inter- orbital space, the single nasal bone in most of the genus, are the other characters by which the Semnopitheci show their lower rank in the animal kingdom. This lower rank, however, is much more evident in the Inui, in which the prominent bony muzzle, the elevated superciliary ridges, the depressed forehead, the flat receptacle for the brain, the chin falling backwards, the long and narrow palate, the single nasal bone, ap- proach to the form of many Carnivora, and manifest an evident inferiority. The facial suture of the intermaxillary o-one disappears only in the very old ones. All this is still more apparent in the Inuus sylvanus (fig. 119), Fig. Skull of Inuus sylvamts. (Original, Mus. Zool. Soc. Amsterdam.} in which the face is more flat and the chin more depressed than in the other species. In the skull of an adult, I found the facial suture of the intermaxillary bone almost obliterated. In no monkeys, after all, the expression of animality is more distinct than in the Cyno- cephall(Jig. 120), in which the contracted fore- Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860. London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper
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