Primates
the first and chief of of life upon the earth.
He included under it four genera:
Homo (one species, five varieties), Simia (21 species), Lemur Vespertilio (seven species). Cuvier ignored the order, classing Man as Bimana York is called the Primate of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury the Pri- mate of All England, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore the Primate of the United States. Lemurs as Quadrumana; the bats now constitute an order by themselves, and the lemurs rank as a sub-order. With vived "for the apes, not only by natur- alists, who, like Huxley, retain man within its limits; but also by others knowledge the use of the name has reconsider he should be excluded from it." Church one of the canonieal hours, and PRIME, in the Roman Catholic alists, who, like Huxley, retain man within its limits; but also by others (Geoffroy St. Hilaire and Gervais), who consider he should be excluded from it."