• THE MAN-LIKE APES. 29 



this skeleton again on tlie 19th December, 1785, after it 

 had been excellently put to rights by the ingenionf Ony- 

 mus." 



It appears evident, then, that this skeleton, which is 

 doubtless that which has always gone by the name of 

 Wnrmb's Pongo, is not that of the animal described by 

 him, though unquestionably similar in all essential points. 



Camper proceeds to note some of the most important 

 features of this skeleton ; promises to describe it in detail 

 by-and-bye ; and is evidently in doubt as to the relation 

 of this great ' Pongo ' to his " petit Orang." 



The promised further investigations were never carried 

 out ; and so it happened that the Pongo of Yon Wurmb 

 took its place by the side of the Chimpanzee, Gibbon, and 

 Orang as a fourth and colossal species of man-like Ape. 

 And indeed nothing could look much less like the Chim- 

 panzees or the Orangs, then known, than the Pongo ; for 

 all the specimens of Chimpanzee and Orang which had 

 been observed were small of stature, singularly human in 

 aspect, gentle and docile ; while Wurmb's Pongo was a 

 monster almost twice their size, of vast strength and 

 fierceness, and very brutal in expression ; its great pro- 

 jecting muzzle, armed with strong teeth, being further 

 disfigured by the outgrowth of the cheeks into fleshy 

 lobes. 



Eventually, in accordance with the usual marauding 

 habits of the Eevolutionary armies, the ' Pongo ' skeleton 

 was carried away from Holland into France, and notices 

 of it, expressly intended to demonstrate its entire distinct- 

 ness from the Orang and its affinity with the baboons, 

 were given, in 1798, by Geoffi'oy St. Hilaire and Cuvier. 



Even in Cuvier's " Tableau Elementaire," and in the 

 first edition of his great work, the " Regno Animal," the 

 ^ Pongo ' is classed as a species of Baboon. However, so 



