Anthropology / by Paul Topinard ; with preface by Paul Broca ; translated by Robert T.H. Bartley.
- Topinard Paul, 1830-1911.
- Date:
- 1878
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Anthropology / by Paul Topinard ; with preface by Paul Broca ; translated by Robert T.H. Bartley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![gical arrangement, which placed Man at the head of the series of animated beings, greatly disturbed Blumenbach, Laccpede, Dau- benton, and Cuvier; and in a spirit of reaction, as it would seem, Cuvier proceeded to isolate Man in a distinct order, and placed the monkey in another order, the bat in a third, &c. Two principal classifications are before us, in which the distance which separates Man from his nearest zoological connections is estimated differently. In one, Man forms a distinct order, in the same category as the ape or one of the Carnaria; in the other, he forms merely one family in the order of Primates, the various divisions of the monkey tribe coming afterwards. Thus : Primates. First system of classification.—First Order: Man. Second Order-. Apes. Third Order : Bats. Fourth Order : Dogs, Bears, &c. Second system of classification.—First Order : Primates. First Family : Man. Second Family : The higher Apes, or Anthropoids (the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the orang, and the gibbon). Third Family: The Monkeys of the Old Continent, or Pithecians (semnopithecus, guenon, magot, cynocephalus [baboon]). Fourth Family : The Monkeys of the New Continent, or Cebians (howl- ing monkey, atele [spider monkey], sajou, ouistiti [marmoset]). Fifth Family : The Lemurs, Macauco, Gakeopithccus.*' * We draw attention to the various names in this list, to which we shall frequently have to refer. In current language we sometimes speak of the Anthropoids as the great apes or monkeys, and the Pithecians and Cebians as the common or true monkeys. Frequently the epithet “Simian’’will occur in like manner, as synonymous with monkey-like, particularly those of the first three families. Lesson united the Pithecians and the Cebians, under the name of Simiades; so that he had in the first order, or Primates, five families : the Hommideaj, the Anthropomorphic, tho Simiadao, the Lemuriens, and the False Lemuriens. Huxley divides his families into seven—namely: tho Anthropini (man), the Catarrhini, tho Platyrrhiui, tho Arotopitheoini, or Marmosets, the Lemurs, the Cheiromyini, and the Galmopitheci, or flyiug monkeys. Two of these appellations originated with Geoffroy Saiut-Hilairc, the Catarrhini, or monkeys of the Old Continent; and tho Platyrrhiui, or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21689957_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
