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THE Zoological Society can hardly fail to derive decided material advantage from the publication of Mr. Darwin's “Descent of Man.” It has been said that already there is a perceptible increase in the visitors to the monkey-house, though an early spring has no doubt co-operated with scientific zeal in the promotion of pilgrimages to the Regent's Park, undertaken in the interest of a more than Chinese worship of ancestors. These visits would, perhaps, be considerably increased if it were very widely known that a fine specimen of a closely-related structural ally was there to be seen and heard, and one the resemblance of which to us has, 1 venture to think, not been generally appreciated sufficiently. I allude to the fine specimen of the Hoolock Gibbon which has been some time at the Gardens, and which appears to rejoice in good health, good temper, and good voice.
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MIVART, S. Ape Resemblances to Man . Nature 3, 481 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003481a0
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