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(I was anxious to ascertain as strengthening the above conclusion whether with any of any ofthe lower animals, there existed a similar relation as is seen between the secretion of tears & the contraction during violent expiration of the orbicular muscles; but are there are very few animals which contract shed tears & very few which contract the orbicular these muscles, or which shed tears. during strong expiratory efforts  

The so-called Macacus inornatus, which formerly wept so copiously in the zoological Gardens would have been a fine case for observation; but the two monkeys now there, & which are believed by as before states some naturalists believe to be the same species as the inornatus & are anyhow closely allied to it, do not weep. Nevertheless they were carefully observed by but which have been seen to weep when watched by Mr. Bartlett & myself, whilst loudly screaming, & they instantly seemed then to contract their orbicular muscles; but their movements are were so rapid, that they could not be observed with much difficulty certainty, no other monkey, as far as I have been able to observe see, contract these muscles whilst uttering screaming.)

(The Indian elephant is known sometimes to weep. Sir E. Tennant in describing those which he saw

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Chap II

carried down by the Spaniards to the low Eastern plains, and when now tempted down by high wages to descend to the gold-washings on the low eastern plains, they suffer a frightful rate of mortality. Nevertheless Mr. Forbes found a few pure families which had survived for during two or three generations; and he observed that they still inherited their characteristic peculiarities. But it was manifest, even without measurement, that these peculiarities had all decreased; and on measurement their trunks were found not to be so much elongated whilst their femora had become somewhat lengthened, as had their tibiæ but in a less degree. For instance, the stature being as before taken at 1000, the length of the trunk in three men on the high plains varied between 222 and 234; whilst in the low country, in one man of the second generation it was 219, and in another of the third generation it was only 211. In a man of