'Reconstituted Serum' from Bloodstains: Its Value and Its Limitations

great importance to investigate this point, although, so far as I am aware, it has not yet been alleged in an Indian murder trial that the bloodstains m question had been caused by blood that had come from an ape, and not from a man, as a eged by the prosecution. Two reasons for tins occur to me. One is that fho Hindus revere the lungoor (Semnopithecut entellus). Ihe other and more generally operative reason is that, even in India, the ape is not a domestic animal, and therefore is not at hand when most needed?by the defence : for Cicero's advice causam mendaciunculis adspergere is scarcely needed here in the East ' Through the kindness of the Superintendent of the Calcutta Zoological Garden, and the Principal Medical Officer of the Royal Colonial Army of the Netherlands-Indies, I have been able to examine bloodstains due to the blood of the following varieties of the apes of the Old World* :?