152 .MAN AND APES. 



pense'e, ni la parole qui en est la signe, a 

 moins quelle ne soit animee par un principe 

 super ieur ?" 



In passing from the brain to the organs of 

 sense, it may be remarked that the ear of the 

 Gorilla is more human than that of any other 

 Primate, in that it has a rudimentary lobule y 

 that is to say, a rudiment of that soft depending- 

 portion into which the " ear-ring " is inserted. 



The nose, on the contrary y exhibits a pro- 

 minence slightly approximating to that of 

 man, not in the Gorilla, but in one of the 

 Gibbons, namely, the Hoolock. 



The projection of man's nose is, however, 

 exceeded by that of the long-tailed Bornean 

 ape, called the Proboscis Monkey, on account 

 of the length of its nasal organ. It belongs, 

 as was before said, to the genus Semnojnt Items. 

 No other species of that genus exhibits any 

 approximation to a similar nasal elongation. 

 ■ The tongue of the Orang is more like that 

 of man than is the tongue of any other 

 latisternal. ape, and the large papillae of the 



