The Zoological Position of Tarsius

Abstract

Two years ago (NATURE, May 2, 1907, pp. 7 and 8) I directed attention to the fact that the recent additions to our knowledge of the Primates would compel us to look upon this order as being composed of three diversely specialised phyla of subordinal rank. It seemed clear that we should have to adopt some such subdivision of the Primates as that employed by Gadow (“A Classification of Vertebrata”, London, 1898, pp. 52 and 53), who called the three suborders Lemures, Tarsii, and Simiæ respectively.