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tracting less attention than the Orangs, though 

 they are spread over a much wider range of 

 country, and are hence more accessible to observa- 

 tion. 



Although the geographical area inhabited by 

 the " Pongo '• and " Engeco " of Battell is so much 

 nearer to Europe than that in which the Orang 

 and Gibbon are found, our acquaintance with the 

 African Apes has been of slower growth; indeed, 

 it is only within the last few years that the truth- 

 ful story of the old English adventurer has been 

 rendered fully intelligible. It was not until 1835 

 that the skeleton of the adult Chimpanzee became 

 known, by the publication of Professor Owen's 

 above-mentioned very excellent memoir " On the 

 Osteology of the Chimpanzee and Orang," in the 

 Zoological Transactions — a memoir which, by the 

 accuracy of its descriptions, the carefulness of its 

 comparisons, and the excellence of its figures, made 

 an epoch in the history of our knowledge of the 

 bony framework, not only of the Chimpanzee, but 

 of all the anthropoid Apes. 



By the investigations herein detailed, it became 

 evident that the old Chimpanzee acquired a size 

 and aspect as different from those of the young 

 known to Tyson, to Buff on, and to Traill, as those 

 of the old Orang from the young Orang; and the 

 subsequent very important researches of Messrs. 

 Savage and Wyman, the American missionary and 



