A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt.
- Lemonnier, Céran
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![almost always a callus on the seat and cheek pouches; tail never prehensile (clinging). Six remarkable genera. Genus I. Pithecus, Geoff. Ourangs. No tail, nor callosities, nor cheek-pouches. Of all animals the ourang is considered as approaching most nearly to man in the form of his head, height of forehead and volume of brain; but many exaggerated descriptions of this resemblance have arisen, no doubt, from the fact that young individuals only were seen. There is every reason to believe that with age the likeness decreases as the muzzle becomes more pro- minent. The body of the Ourang-Outang is covered with coarse red hair, the face bluish, and the hinder thumbs very short compared with the toes. [Cochin-China, Malacca, Bor- neo.] Genus II. Hilobates, Illig. Gibbons. A callus on the seat; arms very long; neither tail nor cheek pouches. [The Indies and their Archipelago.] Genus III. Cercopithecus, Erxl. Monkeys Proper. Tail long ; limbs elongated; form slender; head rounded; muzzle moderately projecting; large cheek-pouches; callosi- ties ; size middling. The length of the hinder limbs gives these animals great facility in leaping. They abound in Af- rica, live in troops, and do much damage to gardens and fields under cultivation. They are easily tamed. Genus IV. Semnopithecus. Muzzle as in the Gibbons; length of the limbs dispropor- tionate ; tail very long ; callosities ; no cheek pouches ; the larynx furnished with a sac. They differ from the long tailed Monkeys by having an additional small tubercle on the last of the inferior molars. [Eastern part of Asia.] Genus V. Inuus, Cuv. Magots. Cheek pouches; callosities; a simple tubercle supplying the place of tail; completely covered with a light brown hair. Of all Monkeys it is the one that suffers the least from our climate, says Cuvier. He is originally from Barbary, but is said to have become naturalized in the most inaccessible parts of the rock of Gibraltar.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136427_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
