Inside Out Library · Explore

Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 17 (October 1886) (1886)

leaf 8

An illustration from Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 17 (October 1886), 1886, leaf 8
gion, the mammalian tracted more curious attention than the monkeys. species has appropriated to itself a different district of fauna of South America being singularly meager and Their grotesque mimicry of man, their innate proclivi- the wooded country, and seldom encroaches on the do- homogeneous.… … est section, among which are placed the pack of anthropoid apes. MR. GROWLET, OF CENTRAL FARE MENAQERIE, N. T anthropoid apes, without tails ; while in Pliny writes: "On the Indian Moun- other members of this section this mem- tains to the south, in the land of the ber has lost the prehensility…

Patented · Patents · Munn · Feet · Inch · Water · Scientific American · Consists · Natural gas · Express money · Practical treatise · Address munn · Nicol prism · Steel arch · Electric light · Horse power · Cubic feet

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 17 (October 1886)

More like this