THE MAN-LIKE APES. 19 



its being a veritable Troglodytes niger* though still 

 very young. Although fully appreciating the resem- 

 blances between his Pygmie and Man, Tyson by no 

 means overlooked the differences between the two, and he 

 concludes his memoir by summing up first, the points in 

 which " the Ourang-outang or Pygmie more resembled a 

 Man than Apes and Monkeys do," under forty-seven dis- 

 tinct heads ; and then giving, in thirty-four similar brief 

 paragraphs, the respects in which " the Ourang-outang or 

 Pygmie differ'd from a Man and resembled more the Ape 

 and Monkey kind." 



After a careful survey of the literature of the subject 

 extant in his time, our author arrives at the conclusion 

 that his " Pygmie " is identical neither with the Orangs 

 of Tulpius and Bontius, nor with the Quoias Morrou of 

 Dapper (or rather of Tulpius), the Barris of d'Arcos, nor 

 with the Pongo of Battell ; but that it is a species of ape 

 probably identical with the Pygmies of the Ancients, and, 

 says Tyson, though it " does so much resemble a Man 

 in many of its parts, more than any of the ape kind, or 

 any other animal in the world, that I know of : yet by no 

 means do I look upon it as the product of a mixt genera- 

 tion — 'tis a Brute-Animal sui generis, and a particular 

 species of Ape." 



The name of " Chimpanzee," by which one of the 

 African Apes is now so well known, appears to have 



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

 labours are so well known, for bringing this interesting relic to my knowledge. 

 Tyson's granddaughter, it appears, married Dr. Allardyce, a physician of re- 

 pute in Cheltenham, and brought, as part of her dowry, the skeleton of the 

 'Pygmie.' Dr. Allardyce presented it to the Cheltenham Museum, and, 

 through the good offices of my friend Dr. Wright, the authorities of the Mu- 

 seum have permitted me to borrow, what is, perhaps, its most remarkable 

 ornament. 



