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The males of various species of Quadrumana, especially Cynocephali; Macacus Rhesus, &c, certainly distinguish women from men, at first probably by their sense of smell and afterwards by sight. Mr. Youatt, who long attended the Zoological Gardens as a veterinary and who was a sagacious and cautious observer gave me unequivocal evidence of this fact, and it was confirmed by the keepers and by some of the officers of the establishment. Sir Andrew Smith observed the same fact with a Cynocephalus which he kept tame at the Cape of Good Hope. Cuvier likewise enters into some details on this subject, which to my mind is a more revolting point of similarity between man and the Quadrumana than any other one that can be indicated: he states that one Cynocephalus

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"entrait dans des accès de frénésie à l'aspect de quelques-unes; mais il s'en fallait bien que toutes eussent le pouvoir de l'exciter à ce point. On voyait clairement qu'il choisissait celles sur lesquelles il voulait porter son imagination, et Il ne manquait pas de donner la préférence aux plus jeunes. Il les distinguait dans la foule, il les appelait de la voix et du geste &c."*) (x Quoted by Prof. Gervais vide Hist. Nat. des Mammifères Tome. I. 1854. p. 105.)

Gervais, Paul. 1854-1855. Les trois règnes de la Nature : Histoire Naturelle des mammifères. 2 vols. Paris: Curmer. CUL-DAR.LIB.220 outsize vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF