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Show (j4 0 EX PLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F M 0 N KEY- C 11 ART. that of tho Indo-Chinoso peninsula, nnd tbnt of tho Suudn I slands, Dornoo, and tho Philippines. Its chnmcteri ~ ti c ttnim11ls, ropresontod in the seventh column of our 'l'ahloau, rn r1y bo readily conti'!LStl•d with tho~o of Africa. 1'hero is, howovor, one ferttut·e in this r011lm which r eq uire ~ particular ntteution, tmd hns n high importance with reforencu to tho ~tnc.Jy of the mcos of mon. Wo find hero upon J.lornoo (nn islnnd not so cxtcn~ivc ns Spniu) ono of tho best known of those anthropoid monkeys, tho orang-outnn; and with him as well ns upon tho adjncont islnnc.Js of Javn n.nd Snmntra, ~tncl along tho coasts of tho two .Ettst Indinn poninsuloo, not less th~tn ten other clilforont spocios of llylobates, tho long-o.rmod monkeys, -n genus which, noxt to tho ornng and chimpnnzco, rnnks n.cttro ~ t to n11111. One of theHe 8pocios is circumscribc<l within the island of Javn, two n.long tho const of Coromn.ildcl, three upon thn.t of Mn.lttccn, nnd foux upon Dornoo. Also, eleven of tho highest org•tnizod beings which h~tvo performed their part in tho plnn of tho creation within trncts of land inferior iu extent to tho rn.ngo of nny of tho hi storiCIIl no.tions of men! In acoordtluco with this fact, wo find three distinct mces within tho boundaries of tho East Indian roalm: the 'reling,tn mco in anterior lndi!1, tho Mnluys in posterior India and upon tho islnnds, upon which tho Negrillos occur with them. Such combinntions justify fully a comparison of tho p;eogrnphicn.l rango covered by di stinct ]~nropoan n1ttions with the nJttTOW li111its ocoupioc.J 11pon ottrth by tho orangs, tho chimpunzocs, and tho gorillns; and though I still hosilt\to to nssign to each an independent origin (perhaps rather from tho difficulty of div c~ ting mysolf of tho opinions universally roooivod, than from any intrinsic evidence), I must, in prosonoo of these facts, insist at lonst upon the probability of such an indopondcnce of origin or nll nations; or, at lonst, of the independent origin of 11 primitive stock for oaeh, with which Itt some futuro period migl'llting 01: conquering tribes hnve more or loss oomplotoly tunalgn. matod, as in tho caso of mixed nationalities." It may well be supposed that repeated assertions like the above, proceeding from such an authority, stimulated tho curiosity, to say tho least, of an arcbeologuo towards their ve1·ijzcation. As in the di covcry of Lal e Mooris by my old fl'icnd and colleague LrNAN'l'-BEY,ooa this leading idea continued to fioat in my mind-" sans pouvoir m'arr@ter a une conception satis!aisanto, lorsqu'enfin uno <:irconstanco presque fortuitc detormina en moi avec precision une penseo qui s'y agitait dcpuis long-temps d'une maniere confuse." 'fhis circumstance was my departure hence for Europe, in October, 1854, with tho view of collecting materials for tho present volume. l reasoned with myself that, if such be tho facts iu zoological organism, the "proper study of mankind" wlll have to be commenced da r.apo. With no hostile intent, but with a sort of constitutional impulse to eradicate orror,-as Bacon says, "the traveller cuts down n bramble iu passing"- I have subjected Prof . .Agassiz's theory to au archroologist's experimentum crucis. lie will be the :lhst to acknowledge that the earliest notice he had of any auch intention on my part, vvas tho reception, at Cambridge, last October (1856), of a lithographic and uncolored proof of the annexed "Monkcy-cbart,"-whicb, together with those of some 003 .AUmoire aur le Lac Mceria, pr6u11M ~~ lu d la Socilll Egyptienne [founded at Co.iro, 18!lG, by lnmself, Alfred S. Walno, James 'J'rail, Peter 'J'a.ylor and mysolf] · Aloxnnlll'ie 4~o 18(3, p. 18 ' I I I I \ |