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Mivart Q. Rw. (174) p. 66 syndactyle toes.

[Mivart, St George Jackson. 1871. [Review of Descent] The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Quarterly Review 131 (July): 47-90. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 174] Text]

[b] It deserves notice that the feet of the more arboreal [illeg] on the wall, home to sloth, are wonderfully [illeg]-like

Pop. Sc 47. Colobus Thumbless Man p. 120

[c] Review, Mivart (174) p. 66 - It is digit of toes which are syndactyle Colobus?

[d] Broca (121) Thumbs of monkeys - absence of Tail &c

[Broca, Pierre Paul. 1870. Sur le transformisme. Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, 2d ser. 5: 168-242. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 121] PDF]

This is on Table.

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But is it not hind foot?

In the African genus Colobus, the thumb deficient (see Mivart Book) & Brehm ✔ Thierleben I. S. 50 speaks of their strictly arboreal habit & wonderful activity & powers of leaping, but whether they are more active & better climbers than Semnopithecus or Cercopithecus I know not.—

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(Correct Vol. I. p. 140.)

Brehm, Alfred Edmund. 1864-1867. Illustrirtes Thierleben. Eine allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. 4 vols. Hildburghausen: Verlag der Bibliographischen Instituts. [Darwin Library-Down] vol. 1 PDF