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III.—A Summary of our Present Knowledge of Extinct Primates from Madagascar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. I. Forsyth Major
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Although the present summary covers the same ground reviewed only a few months ago by the junior bearer of the name which will always be gratefully and prominently remembered in connection with the scientific conquest of Madagascar, the following lines will show that, short as the interval has been, the new additions are not unimportant.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 11 , November 1900 , pp. 492 - 499
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1900

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page 492 note 2 Guillaume Grandidier, “Sur les Lémuriens subfossiles de Madagascar”: C. R. Ac. Sci. Paris, 28 Mai, 1900.Google Scholar

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page 493 note 2 Op. cit., p. 10, pl. iii, fig. 3.

page 493 note 3 Dr. v. Lorenz, when writing his paper, was not aware of this circumstance.

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page 496 note 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 988. Protoindris globiceps, Lorenz (Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien., lxx, 1900, p. 11, pl. iii, fig. 2), is based on a photograph from Mr. Sikora representing the reduced side view of the type of Nesopithecus australis.

page 496 note 2 It is possible that my Globilemur Flacourti from the neighbourhood of Nossi-Vé on the south-west coast may prove to be specifically identical with Bradylemur Bastardi, G. Grand. (Bull. Mus. d'hist. nat. Paris, 1900, No. 5, p. 215), from Ambolisatra.Google Scholar

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page 498 note 2 “If, in accordance with the traditional views of zoologists, the Lemurs are still considered to be members of this order [i.e. Primates], they must form a sub-order apart from all the others, with which they have really very little in common except the opposable hallux of the hind foot, a character also met with in the Opossums, and which is therefore of very secondary importance.”—Flower, — Lydekker, : “An Introduction to the Study of Mammals, living and extinct,” 1891, p. 680.Google Scholar

page 499 note 1 “Uber einige Reste ausgestorbener Primaten von Madagaskar” : loc. cit., pp. 2–8, pl. i, figs. 1–7.Google Scholar