others of our plates, and a prospectus of this volume, I had the
pleasure of enclosing to him.
On the 15th of the same month, during a brief interview in his
library, Prof. Agassiz pointed out to me two errors in this chart viz •
first (since corrected), that I had placed the habitat of the chimpanzee
(JNo. 3) too far to the south in Africa; and second (which I have not
altered), that, in America, the black line of circumvallation inclosing
all the species “ simiæ ” is carried too much towards the north.
. Notwithstanding the enormous pressure of his engagements__
increased as they are by the production of a work, as honorable to
his science as unexampled in the annals of our common republic for
the popular support it so deservedly receives—Prof. Agassiz was so
complaisant as to say: “i f I have time, I will send you a letter upon
this subject.'’ Well,— time or no time — that letter came, to the
extreme gratification of Dr. Nott and myself; and the reader has
already found it in our “ Prefatory Remarks” (supra, pp. 13-15).
Everything that follows hereinafter rests exclusively upon my individual
responsibility.
u i mum nui x -UilAKT—NOTES AND REFERENCES.
The map itself has been drawn to the convenient scale of my friend Dn. Boudin’s admirable
Carte physique et méléorologique du Globe T e r r e s t r e The black line, surroundine
all those regions where monkeys are found, has been traced chiefly in accordance with the
geographical distribution of Schmakda,«®—compared with that of Beeghaus «• of Keith
V n t f Pe t e e m a n nOf Humboidt,™ and of another' anonymous geo’grapher «•
Of the 54 figures of the monkeys themselves, 41 have been borrowed from the plate of
1 B E w J Ü Ü ; 611 and the remaining 13 c°Pied> at onr Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia, by my w if e ,-to whom the tinted original: given as pattern to the colorist
is also due. The reference to each figure indicates the source whence such colors were derived.
Independently of these works, and those cited previously (supra, Chap.V,pp.459L-65),
604 8”« edition, chez Andriveau-GoUjon, Paris, 1855.
605 Uberdchtskarte der yeographischen Verbreilung der Thiere, Wien, 8vo, 1853, vol. iii
«* Physikalischer Atlas, “ Geographic der Thiere,” Band II, PI. 1 - Text pn 137-8-
Gotha, 1848. ’ ’ ’
607 Phydcal Atlas, “ Geographical division and distribution of the Simice and Prosimia •”
and D 3, pp. 2-8, Edinburgh, fob, 1848.
608 Atlas of Physical Geography, “ Zoological map, Mammifers,” PI. 11, London, 4to,
1852
« » B eomme’s “ Atlas zu A. v. Humboldt’s Kosmos,”-Geographischen Verbreitung d *
vorzüglicheren Säugthiere auf der Erde, Stuttgart, 1851, PI. 32.
1854 Z°°hgUal maP showin9 the distribution of Animals over the World, London, Reynolds,
m Eigne animal de M. le Baron Cuvier disposé en Tableaux méthodiques, Paris fol 1832
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