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By an ingenious adaptation of the apparatus, which will also be found described in the Society of Arts paper, the planing machine might be fitted with a lathe-bed, either to hold two centres, or a head with a suitable mandrill.
'No, Archie, leave her alone; she's only a baby. Come along, old boy. Give Mr Cricker a cup of tea; he hasn't had one yet. Archie was devoted to Aylmer. Following him, he handed the tea to Mr Cricker, saying pathetically: 'I'm a blue-faced mandrill, and she knew it. I told her so. Aren't girls fools? They do worry! 'They are torments, said Aylmer.
The mandrill and drill, which have their hinder ends especially ornamented, display it even whilst quite young, more frequently and more ostentatiously than do the other kinds. Next in order comes Cynocephalus hamadryas, whilst the other species act in this manner seldomer.
Thus when, in 1766, Buffon wrote the fourteenth volume of his great work, he was personally familiar with the young of one kind of African man-like Ape, and with the adult of an Asiatic species while the Orang-Utan and the Mandrill of Smith were known to him by report.
To which the slave very readily replied, 'No, this no my wife; this a white woman this fit wife for you. This unlucky wit of the negro's, I fancy, hastened its death, for next morning it was found dead under the windlass." William Smith's 'Mandrill, or 'Boggoe, as his description and figure testify, was, without doubt, a Chimpanzee. 'Troglodyta Bontii'; 2. 'Lucifer Aldrovandi'; 3.
While at Glasgow he had made an improved pair of die-stocks for screws; and, at Aberdeen, he made a turning-lathe with a sliding mandrill and guide-screws, for cutting screws, furnished also with the means for correcting guide-screws.
The baboons are peculiar to Africa, and there are six well-known species of them: the common baboon of North Africa, the "papion" of the south and western coast, the "hamadryas or tartarin" of Abyssinia, the "mandrill" and "drill" of Guinea, and the "chacma" of the Cape Colony. The habits of these animals are as disgusting as their appearance.
Gorilla, semi-erect attitude of the; mastoid processes of the; protecting himself from rain with his hands; manner of sitting; supposed to be a kind of mandrill; polygamy of the; voice of the; cranium of; fighting of male. Gosse, P.H., on the pugnacity of the male Humming-bird. Gosse, M., on the inheritance of artificial modifications of the skull.
'Never mind what you are; do go and sit down, and take those things off, said Edith. 'Not till you guess what I am. 'Does Dilly know? 'No, Dilly doesn't know. Guess what I am, grandmamma! 'I give it up. 'I thought you'd never guess. Well, I'm a blue-faced mandrill! declared Archie, as he took the goggles off reluctantly and gave them back to La France, who put them under his chair.
Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Isid., on the recognition of women by male quadrumana; on monstrosities; coincidences of arrested development with polydactylism; on animal-like anomalies in the human structure; on the correlation of monstrosities; on the distribution of hair in man and monkeys; on the caudal vertebrae of monkeys; on correlated variability; on the classification of man; on the long hair on the heads of species of Semnopithecus; on the hair in monkeys; on the development of horns in female deer; and F. Cuvier, on the mandrill; on Hylobates.
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