Note sur les Singes fossils trouvés en Italie, précédé d'un aperçu sur les qvadrumanes fossiles en géntral

Abstract

THE primary object of this paper, which was read last month, was to describe certain fossil Simian remains which have lately for the first time been discovered in Italy. One which was found in the valley of the Arno, and presented by the Marquis Ermes-Visconti to the Museum of the city of Milan, consisted of a fragment of a maxilla with the last three molars. It is referred by the writer to a species closely related to the Barbary ape (Macacus inuus, Linn.), still foun d at Gibraltar. It appears to have been somewhat smaller than the M.priscus of Montpellier, described by Gervais. A second fossil, part of a mandible, belonging to the same species, has been found by M. Cocchi in the Upper Arno valley. A third, also a mandible and also discovered in Tuscany, at Monte Bamboli, has been assigned by the last-named zoologist to a species of Cercopithecus. Lastly, some Simian teeth from Mugello, now in the museum of Pisa, are supposed by Dr. Major to belong to a species of Macacus.

Note sur les Singes fossils trouvés en Italie, précédé d'un aperçu sur les qvadrumanes fossiles en géntral.

Forsyth Major (Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Italian Society of Natural Sciences.)