. College collection of palaeontology. Head (cast), ou pedestal. Tliis interest- ing fossil was discovered by M. Gaudry in the Pliocene deposit, near Pikermi, in Attica. The MesopitJiecus was a small monkey allied to the Doucs, or ordinary long-tailed monkeys of the East, in the shape of its head, which is rounded, and in its limbs to the Wanderoo of Ceylon. The abundant remains (twentj'-flve indi- viduals having been found at Pikermi) show that the animal lived in troops and indicate that Greece in Tertiary times was alive with curious monkeys. The original of this interesting specimen is in
. College collection of palaeontology. Head (cast), ou pedestal. Tliis interest- ing fossil was discovered by M. Gaudry in the Pliocene deposit, near Pikermi, in Attica. The MesopitJiecus was a small monkey allied to the Doucs, or ordinary long-tailed monkeys of the East, in the shape of its head, which is rounded, and in its limbs to the Wanderoo of Ceylon. The abundant remains (twentj'-flve indi- viduals having been found at Pikermi) show that the animal lived in troops and indicate that Greece in Tertiary times was alive with curious monkeys. The original of this interesting specimen is in the Museum of the University of Munich. No. 5. [5] Dryopithecus Fontani, Lartet. Lower Jaw (cast), with pedestal. Of this extinct monkey, Sir Charles Lyell states "that in anatomical structure, as well as in stature, the Dryoj)itheeus came nearer to man than any quadrumanous species, living or fossil, before known to ; Prof. Owen, however, arrives at a different conclusion; and the generally received opinion is, that it stood inter- mediate between the Gibbon and Semno- phithecus. It was therefore far removed from the human type, for the Quadrvmana recede from man in the following order, making cranial character the test; Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang, Gibbon. The Canines are less developed than in the Gorilla, and in this respect the Dryopithecus makes a nearer approach to Man. The fore part of the coronoid process is slightly convex, as in the Gibbon; in Man, the Gorilla and Chim- panzee, it is concave. This interesting fossil was discovered by M. Fontan, in 1856, in the fresh water Miocene, at Saint Gaudens, Southern France, and is preserved in the Museum of the Garden of Plants, ORDER CARNIVORA. All the Carnivores have incisors, canines and molars—the canines being always longer than the other teeth, and showing at a glance the nature of their appointed food. The molars graduate from a trenchant (as in the Cat) to a tuberculate form (as in the Be
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