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blished in 1781 and T. 3 in 1787 we will look as well 

 after what is told on p. 145 in T, 1 as in T. 3; in the 

 former (p. 145) we fall in the middle of a paper on » Begin 

 »van eene Javaansche Historie genaamd Sadjara Radja 

 »Djawa" and in the latter on p. 145 is the beginning of 

 a »Beschryving der Vogelnestjes door Jan Hooyman"; in 

 both papers no word concerning our Proboscis-Monkey! 



I suppose that the periodical in question must be very 

 rare in Libraries and as the dutch language seems to be 

 exceedingly difiScult to understand I now will take the 

 trouble to give a part of the original text with its trans- 

 lation, so that the thing may stand right once for all. 



Verliaudelingeu vjin het Bataviaascli (xenootscliap der 

 Konsteu en WetenscLappeu, 1784, T. 2, p. 144; Mr. 

 J. C. M. Rademacher in a paper describing the island of 

 Borneo (Beschryving van het eiland Borneo) relates: »men 

 » vindt ook, op Borneo, veele zoorten van Aapen; waaronder 

 »een, Cabau genaamd, rood van kleur, met eene lange lel, 

 »als een Kalkoen, aan de neus, dien hy vast houdt, als hy, 

 »van den eenen boom naar den anderen, springen zal", 

 (there are also in Borneo many monkeys to be found, 

 among them one called Cabau^ red colored, with a long 

 lap, like a turkey, to the nose, which he holds fast, if he 

 intends to jump from one tree to another one). 



and pp. 345 — 354 of T. 3, 1787 '), there is a paper 

 entitled »de Kahau, een lang-staartige Aap" (the Kahau, 

 a long-tailed monkey) by T. Baron van Wurmb. In a note 

 on p. 345 the author says that he altered the name Kahau 

 in Kahau as the latter better expresses the cry of the 

 animal. »Zyn voorkomen heeft iets, dat verwondering wekt, 

 »gelykende hy door eene buiten gemeen lange Neus, en 

 »door de verschillende couleuren, zoo van zyne tronie als 



1) After Prof. Wiedersheim (Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologic, 

 1901, p. 300) Lichtenberg mentioned in 1784, Wurmb's paper published in 

 1781; however as the latter paper has not been published in 1781 but in 

 1787 we must suppose that Lichtenberg was born with a caul on his head — 

 as he mentioned a paper three years before it had been published ! 



Notes ironi the Leyden ]Museuiii, Vol. XXIII. 



