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Title: Children's own library
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Burdick, J. Ellis (Jennie Ellis) Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914
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Publisher: New York, National Library Co
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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HEAD OF THE PREHISTORIC MAN (Restored). The above head is drawn on the basis of the skull found in1857 at Neanderthal, near Diisseldorf, in Germany, and sup-posed to be the cranium of a prehistoric man. It is dolicho-cephalic, and almost without a brow.
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Gorillas. WOODS NATURAL HISTORY QUADRUMANA This section includes the apes, baboonsvand monkeys.The name of Quadrumana, or four-handed, is given tcthese animals because their feet are formed like hands,and are capable of grasping the branches along whicfcmost monkeys live. Apes are placed at the head of theQuadrumana because their instinct is superior to thatof the baboons and monkeys. The former are sullenand ferocious, when arrived at their full growth, andmonkeys are volatile and mischievous. The Gorilla, the most man-like of the apes, lives inthe forests of Africa. It is shorter but broader thanthe average man, being about five feet and a half highand about thirty-eight inches from shoulder to shoulder.The neck is short, the forehead retreating, the noseflat, the arms very long and strong, the jaws enormouswith large canine teeth. The body is covered withiron-gray hair, while the hair on the head is reddish.Its favorite food is the wild sugar-cane and nuts.When attacked by hunters,

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