PAGE 53 Eminent Educators Deceased in 1865. 376 Elephant of India, the Sacred 194 Error of the Times, an.... Arithmetic, Analytical. ...... 267 Examination at Mme. Savante's-A Dialogue 308 Calculations, Curious Arithmetical.. Carbon in Vegetation.-Its Source. Figúres, Wonderful Properties of. College Education, Is it Declining ?. Colleges, Business 273 196, 239 Composition, Writing. 79 119 Geographical Publications of Germany Defects in our American Colleges... Glycerine and Nitro Glycerine. 227 Gold, Speculation in........ ... Drill, Military, for Schools of all kinds... Gotha. Merchant's Training School 79 272 High Rock Spring, Saratoga. Earth, Dimensions of the. How ascertained.... 111 39 Education, a Bureau of........ Education, Plea for Compulsory.. 216 Improbability. Education, Democracy in.. 464 Institute of Schnepfenthal, the Celebrated. 166 189 PAGE PAGE 240 Julian Gurdon: Student and Schoolmaster.....24, 63 Robinson Crusoe....... ...... 177 151 Sandwich Islanders, Education of the...... 275 (Laws, Colonial....... 139 1.29 318 314 479 373 Letters from Gotha, Germany-Great Kinder Schools, Statuary Law as to Disturbing. Garten School 39 153 + Schools, Inventions for Geographical Publishing House-Dr. Peterman 79 Letter from Nuremberg-German Geographical Scholastic Rights and Duties of Parents... Schoolmaster, M. D., the (Poetry).. 466 Letter from Santa Cruz, California.. Schoolmaster's House in his Castle Library, Public, ('ompliment of the Public School 33 Science and the Arts...126, 166, 206, 279, 300, 441, 480 Mammoth of Siberia, the Frozen.. 300 145 103 Sing, Teach Children to.. 96 146 Memory of a Mother, the 310 Social Standing of Teachers.. 312 Meerschaum 194 Minnesota-its Soil, Climate and•Education. . 51 Squeers, the Original..... 98 Miscellany..... *10.98.127,167, 326 Straight Mark, the-A Dialogue 469 Mis eilany, Editorial. 334, 435, 437 Substantives in English-Their Cases., 130 Modern Scholastic Enterprises, Keys to Suceess Tailorid, Anecdote of.. 23 349 Teachine, the Right to Dictato to Music in Public Schools.... 7 : Peachers, Suggestions to Assistant.. 414 Nature, Contrary to 'Teaching Forty Years Ago..... 401 Vile-its Source...... 188. 'Telegraph, the Atlantic.. 386 “ Not at Home"- a Dialogue. The Dishonesty of Teachers. 81 Notes and Queries...... 39, 122, 207 The Ignorance of Teachers.... 35 Nott, Eliphalot, D. D., LL. 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PUBLIC LIBRARY 275729 AMERICAN ASTOR, LENOX ANO 1903 TILDEN' FC!" DATION3 EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY. VOL. III. JANUARY, 1866. No. 1. THE ANTHROPOID APES. THE THE order Quadrumana has in all ages been regarded with peculiar interest, because it resembles man in structure and appearance. The name, four-handed, originates in the belief that the monkey possesses four prehensile extremities, all adapted to use in walking, yet partaking more of the hand than of the foot. Some of the later naturalists prefer the term Pedimana, or foot-handed, regarding the foot element as predominating. Professor Huxley maintains that the ape is properly bimanous, possessing two hands and two feet; and bis reasoning has lately been strengthened by the investigations of Dr. Endleton, who, after careful anatomical examination of a young chimpanzee, has concluded that that ape, at least, is not quadrumanous, but properly bi-manous, although its extremities are all prehensile. Though occurring only in or near tropical regions, the Quadrumana are of wide geographical distribution; and the characteristics of those in different continents are distinctly marked and easily classified. We have the Simiade, or Monkeys of the Old World ; the Cebidæ, or Monkeys of the New World ; and the Lemuridæ, or Monkeys of Madagascar. The Simiadæ are the most interesting family, including the largest and most manlike members of the order. This family is divided into the Tailed, and the Tailless or Anthropoid apes. THE ANTHROPOID APES DESCRIBED. These are distinguished by teeth like those of man, by a lack of tails and cheek-pouches, and by being able to walk erect, although naturally moving on all-fours. The OP.ANG-OUTANG, or Simia satyrus, in former times, included the chimpanzee, which, however, is now regarded as belonging to a different genus ; and the term orang refers only to an ape found in Indo-China and the East India islands, Ves: Satyrus is about five feet high when erect, is covered with reddish hair, and, as the forehead is full, and the snout not extremely prominent, resentistes man wote tirspany other ape of which we have satisfactory informatiori: Huis soditary if its habits, and builds in trees a rude shelter from storms. Sonte naturalists have placed this ape below the dog in the scale of intelligence; but this seems unjust. Buffon and others have given instances tovhiçbi very considerable intelligence was manifested. The orang is little known in the West, as few specimens have been imported, although many of other genera have been exhibited under its name. The CHIMPANZEE, or Troglodytes niger, inhabits a narrow district of western tropical Africa, and is the Angola orang of the old naturalists. It is four to five feet high, covered with grayish hair, long and thick upon the back, but short and thin elsewhere. It is gregarious, and lives almost wholly among the trees. To protect itself against the furious storms of its country, it constructs a hut of twigs and leares like the orang, and when attacked defends itself with clubs and stones. The first individual of this species ever seen in Europe was brought to England in 1738, and exhibited as a curiosity. Of late years, many have been brought to Europe and America, where they have been exhibited as orang-outangs. The Nsniego Mbotve, or nest-building ape, the Troglodytes calvus |