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FOSSIL PRIMATES
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that the skeleton of Mesopithecus penthelicus was discovered. Other remains of lemurs were found in 1862. But during the last twenty years the number of fossil Primates has been augmented by the remarkable discoveries of Gaudry, Filhol, Milne Edwards, Seeley, Schlosser, and others in Europe; of Marsh, Cope, Osborn, Leidy, Ameghino, in South America; and Forsyth Major in Madagascar.[1] These tertiary remains, chiefly

  1. F. Ameghino: 'Contribucion al conocimiento de los mamiferos de la república Argentina.' In Actas de la Academia national de Sciencias en Cordoba, 1889.—Another article in Revista Argentina de Historia natural. Buenos Aires, 1891.

    A. Gaudry: 'Animaux fossiles et géologie de l'Attique.' 1862.—'Le Dryopithèque.' Mém. Soc. géol. de France: 'Paléontologie.' 1890.

    O. Marsh: 'Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America.' Address, Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Nashville, 1887.

    H. F. Osborn: 'The Rise of the Mammalia in North America.' Address, Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Madison, 1893.

    L. Ruetimeyer: 'Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt,' Basel, 1867.

    C. S. Forsyth Major: 'Fossil Monkeys from Madagascar.' Geological Magazine, 1896.

    M. Schlosser: 'Ueber die Beziehungen der ausgestorbenen Saeugethierfaunen und ihr Verhaeltniss zur Saeugethierfauna der Gegenwart.' Biolog. Centralblatt, 1888.