146 MAN AND APES. 



" In the world of science, as in that of 

 politics, France and England have occasion- 

 ally differed as to their choice hetween rival 

 candidates for royalty. ... If either heredi- 

 tary claims or personal merits affect at all the 

 right of succession, beyond a question the 

 Gorilla is but a pretender, and one or other of 

 the two candidates the true prince. There is 

 a graceful as well as an ungraceful way of 

 withdrawing from a false position, and the 

 British public will adopt the graceful course 

 by accepting forthwith and henceforth the 

 French candidate, and by endorsing M. Gra- 

 tiolet's proposal for speaking of the Gorilla 

 as but a Baboon, of the Chimpanzee as a 

 Macaque, and of the Orang as a Gibbon." 



There can be no question, then, but that in 

 this most important organ the Orang is man's 

 nearest ally, while the Gorilla is quite remark- 

 ably inferior. 



This closeness of resemblance between the 

 brains of the Orang and of man becomes yet 

 more striking when we consider how great 



