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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 



scription and figure testify, was, without doubt, a Chim- 

 panzee. 



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 " Amcenitates Academicae " 

 (YI. ' 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 reduced copy. The 

 figures are entitled (from left to right) 1. Troglodyta Bon- 

 tii / 2. Lucifer Aldrovandi / 3. Satyrus Tulpii / 4. Pyg- 

 mceus Edwardi. The first is a bad copy of Bontius' fie- 



Fig. 6. — The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus. 



titious ' Ourang-outang,' in whose existence, however, 

 Linnaeus appears to have fully believed ; for in the stan- 

 dard edition of the " Sy sterna Naturae," it is enumerated 

 as a second species of Homo ; " H. nocturnus." Lucifer 

 Aldrovandi is a copy of a figure in Aldrovandus, ' De 

 Quadrupedibus digitatis vivdparis,' Lib. 2, p. 249 (1645) 

 entitled " Cercopithecus formae rarae Barhilius vocatus et 



