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ON THE FREQUENT DEFICIENCY OF THE UNGUEAL PHALANX 

 IN THE HALLUX OF THE ORANG OUTANG. 



In the first portion of the Memoir of the late Sir T. Stamford 

 Raffles, the publication of which was commenced, some years 

 since, in the Zoological Journal, an intention is expressed (Zool. 

 Journ., vol. iii. p. 41 note,) of noticing, in the sequel, the history of 

 the animal or animals to which the names of Orang Outang and 

 Pongo had been applied by naturalists. In pursuance of this inten- 

 tion (which I designed to fulfill when reciting the contributions to 

 Zoological science of that lamented statesman and philosopher, who 

 had himself called attention to the subject by a remark in his Cata- 

 logue of a Zoological collection formed in Sumatra), I examined 

 some of the relations of naturalists and travellers respecting the 

 Orang Outang and its affinities, collected references to others, and 

 entered, to a certain extent, into the discussion of the results de- 

 rivable from them. The Memoir itself, however, having been after- 

 wards discontinued, the materials thus prepared, like the sketch of 

 the history of the Papuans, (but which I have since inserted in Lond. 

 and Edinb. Phil. Mag., vol. i. p. 466,) and notices of other subjects 

 also connected with the natural history of the Indian Archipelago, 

 have remained unpublished in my possession. 



My attention has been recalled to this subject, after the lapse of 

 nearly seven years, by Mr. Owen's recent investigation of the com- 

 parative osteology of the Orang Outang and Chimpanzee, towards 

 the further prosecution of which, in relation particularly to certain 

 points in the natural history of the former species of Simla, I have 

 had the pleasure of supplying Mr. Owen with some references. 



In the abstract of Mr. Owen's paper given in our last Number 

 (and in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, No. xxvii.), it is 

 remarked that " The peculiarity of the structure of the hallux first 



