An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables ... / by Charles White. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester ... in the year 1795 / by Charles White.

  • Charles White
Date:
1799
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Credit: An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables ... / by Charles White. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester ... in the year 1795 / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *8 ] The colour of fimise does not depend upon climate; for tliofe that inhabit the torrid zone are white as well as black, brown, tawny, yellow, and of many other colours It is remarkable that Cimite have no lips, at leaf! none that will admit of comparifon with thofe of mankind; lips being unneceffary to animals deflitute of the faculty of fpeech. In the Memoirs for a Natural Hiftory of Animals, firft publifhed in French at Paris, it is aflerted that the clitoris in monkies is proportionably greater and more vifible than in women. AFTER promifmg thefe general obfervations on the genus Simiae, I fhall now fpeak more particularly of fome that ap- proach neared to man, as the different fpecies of orang- outang, borrowing from the ftatements of naturalifis and travellers an account of the forms, habits, manners, &c. of thofe animals. — Profeffor Gmeliris edition of the Syjiema Natur^y as tranflated by Mr. Kerr, defcribes them as follows: “ Apes. (Simiae) Have no tails. The vifage is flat; the teeth, hands, fingers, feet, toes, and nails, refemble thofe Of tliefe Europe, Alia, and Africa furnifh (fuppofe) 126; that is, the 26 common to Europe and America, and about 100 which are not in America at all. The American fpecies then are to thofe in the reft of the earth as 100 to 126, or as 4 to 5. But the refidue of the earth being double the extent of America, the exa<ft proportion would have been as 4 to 8.’
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