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Eventually, in accordance with the usual ma- 

 rauding habits of the Revolutionary armies, the 

 " Pongo " skeleton was carried away from Hol- 

 land into France, and notices of it, expressly 

 intended to demonstrate its entire distinctness 

 from the Orang and its affinity with the baboons, 

 were given, in 1798, by Geoffrey St. Hilaire and 

 Cuvier. 



Even in Cuviers " Tableau Elementaire," and 

 in the first edition of his great work, the " Eegne 

 Animal," the "Pongo" is classed as a species of 

 Baboon. However, so early as 1818, it appears that 

 Cuvier saw reason to alter this opinion, and to 

 adopt the view suggested several years before by- 

 Blumenbach,* and after him by Tilesius, that the 

 Bornean Pongo is simply an adult Orang. In 1824, 

 Rudolphi demonstrated, by the condition of the 

 dentition, more fully and completely than had been 

 done by his predecessors, that the Orangs described 

 up to that time were all young animals, and that 

 the skull and teeth of the adult would probably be 

 such as those seen in the Pongo of Wurmb. In 

 the second edition of the " Regne Animal " (1829), 

 Cuvier infers, from the " proportions of all the 

 parts ? and " the arrangements of the foramina 

 and sutures of the head," that the Pongo is the 

 adult of the Orang-Utan, " at least of a very close- 



* See Blumenbach AbMldungen NaturhistoricTien Ge- 

 genstande, No. 12, 1810; and Tilesius, Naturhistoriche 

 Friichte tier ersten Kaiscrlich-Russischen Erdumsegelung, 

 p. 115, 1813. 



