98 MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. n 



Gorilla, in the Museum of the Eoyal College of 

 Surgeons, measures 27 inches along its anterior 

 curvature, from the upper edge of the atlas, or 

 first vertebra of the neck, to the lower extremity 

 of the sacrum; that the arm, without the hand, is 

 31 J inches long; that the leg, without the foot, is 

 26J inches long; that the hand is 9f inches long; 

 the foot 11J inches long. 



In other words, taking the length of the spinal 

 column as 100, the arm equals 115, the leg 96, 

 the hand 36, and the foot 41. 



In the skeleton of a male Bosjesman, in the 

 same collection, the proportions, by the same meas- 

 urement, to the spinal column, taken as 100, are — 

 the arm 78, the leg 110, the hand 26, and the foot 

 32. In a woman of the same race the arm is 

 83, and the leg 120, the hand and foot remaining 

 the same. In a European skeleton I find the arm 

 to be 80, the leg 117, the hand 26, the foot 35. 



Thus the leg is not so different as it looks at 

 first sight, in its proportion to the spine in the 

 Gorilla and in the Man — being very slightly 

 shorter than the spine in the former, and between 

 T ^ and \ longer than the spine in the latter. The 

 foot is longer and the hand much longer in the 

 Gorilla; but the great difference is caused by the 

 arms, which are very much longer than the spine 

 in the Gorilla, very much shorter than the spine 

 in the Man. 



The question now arises how are the other 



