MAN AND THE APE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 6 September 1912, Page 8

MAN AND THE APE.

LECTURE BY MR PHILIP HEREFORD. Tjibro was a very poor attendance at I' 1 .o Town Hall last evening to hear I she lecture delivered by Mr Philip /Hereford on “The Relationship between ( Man and tlhe Ape,” the audience being I practically limited to the very few lo- ( cal people who have given the subject I of the evolution of man serious thought I and study. In the first part of the I lecture, Mr Hereford dealt with the embryonic stages of life, and he showed some remarkable lantern slides de-

j picting the embryo of man, a fish, a | turtle, etc. In the early stages these j could not bo distinguished, the shape of the head and the peculiar tail formation being practically identical. Then j as the embryo developed, the pcculia . characteristics of each animal form asI sorted themselves. The lecturer re- | furred to the appendix, which, while ! of no use to man, served for a lower animal as a digestive organ for grass i he spoke of the almost useless muscle©

in the human ear, and of the “tailed f man,” showing that there were very many portions of man’s anatomy which f made him similar to the lower animals. 1 Dealing with the main portion of his j lecture, Mr Hereford showed slides and i brought evidence to bear on the claim ) that the difference between the higher l type of man and the lowest type of j man, is far greater than the difference between the corresponding types in the monkey tribe. In divers ways he showed peculiar little resemblances between man and the monkey. In one case he showed photographs of the hair on the arms of a man and the h ,irs mi the arms of a monkey. In | both cases the hair grow upwards and outwards. Now, the monkey has tin habit whenever it rains of holding up its arms to cover its face, and the 1 hair is thus forced into this! unnatural position. Hence, the presence of this characteristic in man the lecturer held must be regarded as of some importance in the relationship between man and the ape. The abnormal strength in the arms of a baby, and the fact that a very young child walks in the same manner as the monkey were among other interesting points touched upon by the lecturci.