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XXII. An Account of a Pair of hinder Hands of an Orang 
Otang, deposited in the Collection of the Trinity-House, Hull. 
By John Harwood, M.D., F.R.S. and L.S. Communicated 
by the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society. 
Read June 19, 1827. 
Ix viewing the collection belonging to the Trinity-House, Hull, 
being no less interested than surprised by the extraordinary size 
and appearance of a pair of the hinder hands of an Orang Otang 
contained in a glass vessel, I became anxious to obtain all the 
information possible concerning them ; and I have now the plea- 
sure of laying it before the Linnean Society.—On the 5th of 
June 1822, Captain John Anderson, (since deceased,) master of 
the ship Lord Wellington, of Hull, presented to the Board (to 
use the words contained in his letter to them) ‘two of the feet 
of an Orang Otang, which had been presented to him in the 
year 1821 by the native Sultan of Pontianna in Borneo, in 
whose family they had remained as a great curiosity during 
154 years. "This chief," he continues, **is remarkably fond of 
the English nation; and added, in presenting them to me, that 
the apparent strength of the feet of this animal would indicate 
the power of his attachment to them and their interests." Such, 
then, is the only portion of history I have been enabled, or am 
likely, to collect concerning these specimens. In confirmation 
of the above account, on visiting the residence of the late 
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