TYSON'S PYGMIE. 



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to prove his " Pygmie " to be a young Chimpanzee. 

 But the opportunity of examining the skeleton of 

 the very animal Tyson anatomised having most 

 unexpectedly presented itself to me, I am able to 



Fig 4. — The " Pygmie " reduced from Tyson's figure 2, 



1699. 



bear independent testimony to its being a veri- 

 table Troglodytes niger* though still very young. 



* I am indebted to Dr. Wright, of Cheltenham, whose 

 paleontological labours are so well known, for bringing 



