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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![M \:\1MALIA. Genus VI. Cynocepiialus.* Teeth very strong; false cheeks; callosities ; muzzle elon- gated, and, as it were, cut off at the end where the nostrils are pierced, which causes it to resemble that of the Dog; large size; brutal and ferocious disposition. Our engraving represents the dog-faced Baboon of Pennant, or Moco-Ape of Buffon. A bluish ash colour; hairs of the ruff, and especially those of the sides of the head, very long ; face flesh coloured; of a horribly vicious instinct. [Arabia and Ethiopia.] Tribe II. Monkeys of the New Continent. Six molar teeth on each side, and in each jaw; no callosi- ties nor false cheeks; nostrils in the side of the nose; tail long, frequently prehensile—that is, the extremity is capable of seizing a body with much force by twining round it. Two sections. Section I. Cebus, Erxl. Sapajous. The tail prehensile. Genus Mycetes, Illig. Howling Monkey. Head pyramidal; face oblique; lower jaw extremely large; the hyoid bone has a swelling or bony drum, which com- municates with the larynx, and gives to the voice of these animals an enormous volume and frightful sound. Section II. Pithecia, Desm., Illig. Sakis. Tail not prehensile. FAMILY II. OUISTITIS. Incisive teeth to the number of four in each jaw, but oblique and bent, especially in the upper jaw; twenty molar teeth ■ no callosities nor cheek pouches; tail bushy and not pre- hensile ; nails compressed, crooked and sharp like claws ■ thumbs of the forehands movable, but placed with difficulty in opposition to the fingers, from which, indeed, they are so slightly separated that it is with hesitation we assign to them the name of Quadrumana. They are pretty little creatures ol agreeable forms and easily tamed. [South America.] Dogv-headed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136427_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
