i LINNAEUS ANTIIKOPOMORPIIA. 17 



some loved to see its tears and hear it cry; others hated 

 its snotty nose; one who hurt it, being checked by the 

 negro that took care of it, told the slave he was very fond 

 of his country-woman, and asked him if he should not 

 like her for a wife? To which the slave very readily re- 

 plied, 'No, this no my wife; this a white woman — this 

 fit wife for you.' This unlucky wit of the negro's, I fancy, 

 hastened its death, for next morning it was found dead 

 under the windlass." 



William Smith's " Mandrill/' or " Boggoe," as 

 his description and figure testify, was, without 

 doubt, a Chimpanzee. 



Linnaeus knew nothing, of his own observation, 

 of the man-like Apes of either Africa or Asia, but 

 a dissertation by his pupil Hoppius in the " Amceni- 

 tates Academics " (VI. " Anthropomorpha ") may 

 be regarded as embodying his views respecting 

 these animals. 



The dissertation is illustrated by a plate, of 

 which the accompanying woodcut, Fig. 6, is a re- 

 duced copy. The figures are entitled (from left to 

 right) 1. Troglodyta Bontii; 2. Lucifer Aldro- 

 vandi; 3. Satyrus Tulpii; 4. Pygmceus Edwardi, 

 The first is a bad copy of Bontius' fictitious " Ou- 

 rang-outang," in whose existence, however, Lin- 

 naeus appears to have fully believed; for in the 

 standard edition of the " Systema Naturae," it is 

 enumerated as a second species of Homo; " H. 

 nocturnus." Lucifer Aldrovandi is a copy of a 

 figure in Aldrovandus, " De Quadrupedibus digi- 

 tals viviparis," Lib. 2, p. 249 (1G45) entitled 

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