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Show EX PLAN A 'I' I 0 N S 0 F ]If 0 N KEY -C II ART. 641 others of our plates, and a prospectus of this volume I had the pleasure of enclo. ing to him. . ' On th 1.5th of the same month, during a brief interview in hiH library, Prof. Agnssi7. pointed out to me two errors in tbi. chart, vi7..: first (si nco corrected), that I had placed the habitat of tho chimpanzee (No. 3) too far to the south in Africa; and second (which I Lave not altered), that, in America, tho blaclc Nne of ci1·eurnvallation inclosing all tlto Flpecios "simiro" is carried too much towards tho north. Notwithstanding tho enormous pressure of ]tis ongagomonts,incroas d as they arc by tho production of a work, as honoraulo to his science as unexampled in tho annals of our common republic for the popular support it so dcRcrvodly receives-Prof. Agas iz was so complaisant as to say: "If I bavo time, I will send you a letter upon this subject." Woll,-time or no time-that letter came, to the extreme gratification of Dr. Nott and myself; and the reader haH already found it in our "Prefatory Hcmarks" (supm, pp. 13-15). Everytlting tbat follows hereinafter rests exclusively upon my individual responsibility. DESCRIPTION OF MONKEY-CHART-NOTES AND REFERENCES. The map it~clf has been dmwn to tho convenient ~calc of my friend Du. Dounw's admirable Carte physique et meUorotogique d1t Globe Terrestre.riJI Tho black line, Aunounding u.ll those regions wltet·e monkeys nre found, hns hecn kaced chiefly in llccordnncc wi lh the gcogmphicnltliBtribution of SouMARlJA,ws-oompnrcd with thnt of llJmOHAUs,ooo of KtHTH JouNSTON,oo7 of Pt:TJ~JlMANN,f.o8 of Ilu~mOLD'J',IIOO 11ncl of Jtnothcr anonymous gcogrnphm·.oto Of the 54 figu1·es of tho monkeys themselves, 41 hllvc boon borrowed from tho plate of J. Aculf>I>Jo: CoMrn:; ou nne! the remaining 13 copied, nt our Acndomy of Nntm·11l ScionccH of Philadclphill, by my wifo,-to whom tho tinted originnl given ns p11ttom to tho colori~t is also due. 'l'ho reference to each figure indicates the source whence such colors were derived. Indcpondontly of these works, and those cited previously (supra, Cbnp.V,pp.460--65), 004 8me edition, chez Anclrivenu-Goujon, Paris, 1865. . .. 005 libersiclils!carte der gcograpllischen Verbreitung der Thiere, Wiou, 8vo, 1868, vol. 111. GOO Pl•ysi!calisclter Atlas, "Googmphio der Thicro," ll11nd II, Pl. 1; 1'ext, pp. 137-8; Gotbn, J 848. 001 l'ltysicat Atlas, "Geographical division 11nd distribution of tho Simire nnd l'roaimire ;" and D 8 pp. 2-8, Edinburgh, fol., 1848. ooa Atlas of Physical Geography, "Zoologiclll mnp, Mnmmifors," Pl. 11, London, 4to, 1852. b . d 1109 nnomnJ's "Atlas zu A. v. Humboldt's Kosmos,"- Geographischen Ver re1tung er vorzugl-icheren Siiugthiere auf der Erde, Stuttgart, 1861, Pl. 32. 610 Zoological map showing the distribution of Animals over the World, London, Reynolds, 1864. . p . f l 1832 611 R~gne animal de JII. le Baron Ouvier dispose C11 J'ableaux mcthodtques, llns, o ., · 41 |