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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1936 



Sir Frank Colyer, K. B. E., of the Royal College of Surgeons, and 

 an eminent dental surgeon, who has for years been studying the den- 

 tal diseases and dentition of wild and domestic animals in relation 



to those of the human race, has made an exhaustive examination of a 

 very large number of gorilla skulls, which revealed that those from 

 localities in which the bamboo is absent from the gorilla's habitat are 



