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of its size and strength — the lowest and most 

 degraded of all the latisternal apes. Moreover, 

 the disposition of its convolutions is such as 

 (in the opinion of M. Gratiolet) to connect it 

 with the Baboons, while the Chimpanzee is 

 similarly connected with the Macaques. Our 

 author suggests that if the Orang he con- 

 sidered as the head and culminating point of 

 development, following the line of the Semno- 

 pitheci and Gibbons, then the Chimpanzee 

 may be taken to be the head, or, as it were, 

 the Orang, of the series of Macaques, while 

 the Gorilla is but the culmination of that type 

 of cerebral structure elsewhere exhibited by 

 the relatively brutal and degraded Baboons. 



This is an appreciation of the animal widely 

 different from that still popular in England, 

 in spite of Professor Rolleston's efforts to 

 propagate the true Simian faith respecting 

 this " would-be king of the Simiadce" 



The Professor expresses himself* as follows : 



* ■ Medical Times,' for February 1862, vol. i. 

 No. 608, p. 184. 



