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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ANATOMY OF THE ANTHROPOID APES. By Frank E. 
Beddard, M.A., Prosector to the Zoological Society of London. Tvans. Zool. 
Soc., vol. xiii., part v., 1893 (pp. 177-218, plates xx.—xxviii.). 
THERE will be few people who failed to hear at least of the existence 
of the celebrated chimpanzee ‘“ Sally”’; her reputation, like that of 
some others, higher, perhaps, in the zoological scale, was made not 
entirely by her own unaided merits, but was largely due to the assis- 
tance of the Press. Her lamented death gave rise to obituary notices 
more extensive than those commonly devoted to archbishops. 
Human greatness, however, is apt to be but transitory ; and apparently 
also the same is the case with anthropoid apes; but the waning 
reputation of ‘‘ Sally’ will, perhaps, be renewed by the above-quoted 
memoir upon her anatomy. ‘ Sally” belonged to a species of Chim- 
panzee which was originally described by M. du Chaillu as Tvoglodytes 
caluvus ; the species was not by any means universally accepted at the 
time of its description ; but the present paper sets at rest any doubts 
which may be still entertained upon the matter. The question of the 
species of Chimpanzees is one which is not yet decided, nor is it yet 
ripe for settlement ; the material in the way of skulls and skeletons 
available in the museums of Europe is not sufficient. A great many 
different names have been at various times applied to supposed 
species; but at the present moment no more than two can be regarded 
as having been definitely proved ; those are, of course, Tvoglodytes niger 
and the species which forms the subject of Mr. Beddard’s memoir. 
This ape was remarkable not only for being the only individual of 
her kind ever exhibited at the Regent’s Park menagerie, but also for 
her intelligence and long life. From the condition of the teeth it 
appears that she was about eleven years old; at any rate she lived 
in the Gardens for no less a period than eight years, which is, for an 
anthropoid, quite phenomenal. “ Sally ”’ finally yielded to a compli- 
cation of diseases which rendered it impossible to give any account of 
the viscera; this is to be regretted, as the chances of studying the 
visceral anatomy of this species are not likely to be frequent. The 
absence of any account of the internal structure of the animal is, how- 
ever, made up for by an account of the muscular anatomy and of the 
brain. The latter organ is well figured in several aspects ; as might 
be expected, it does not show any great differences from that of the 
common Chimpanzee; vor is the muscular anatomy particularly 
characteristic ; such points of difference as exist are dwelt upon by 
the author. The reader may be interested to hear that the brain is 
now to be seen in the Oxford University Museum ; the skin has been 
stuffed and isin the Museum of the Hon. Walter Rothschild at Tring. 
A great feature of the paper, as is, indeed, usually the case with the 
excellent publications of the Zoological Society, is the illustrations ; 
we do not intend to imply by this that the text in any way falls short 
of the illustrations; but it certainly is the case that the plates with 
which the publications of this Society are adorned are of their kind 
unsurpassed. We have in the present paper figures life-size of the 
full face, of the head seen from above (evidently to show its dolicho- 
cephalic character), of the hands and feet, and a whole plate and part 
of another is devoted tothe brain. The second part of Mr. Beddard’s 
paper deals with another anthropoid, who was familiarly known by 
the name ‘“‘George”’; this animal was thought to be a representative of 
the smaller Orang, Simia morio; Mr. Beddard, however, is not convinced 
of the correctness of this view, which was partly based upon the suppo- 
sition (erroneous, as it now turns out) that the ape was elderly ; 
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