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THE NATTJKAL 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 " Amoenitates Academicse " 

 (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. Troglodyia Bon- 

 tii ', 2. Lucifer Aldrovandi j 3. Satyrus Tuljpii j 4. Pyg- 

 mcBus Edwardi. The first is a bad copy of Bon tins' fic- 



FiG. 6. — The Anthropomorpha of Linngeus. 



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

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

 dard edition of the " Systema Naturse," it is enumerated 

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

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

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

 entitled " Cercopithecus formse raras Barbilms vocatus et 



