388 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
briefly and characteristically adds: “ In view of this last fact, 
Dr. Savage thought, as will be seen in his letter, that the spe- 
cies should stand in my name; but this I declined.” 
This Memoir was read before this society on the 18th of 
August, 1847, and was published before the close of the year. 
But it had not, as it appears, come to Professor Owen’s knowl- 
edge when the latter presented to the London Zoological Soci- 
ety, on the 22d of February, 1848, a memoir founded on three 
skulls of the same species, just received from Africa through 
Captain Wagstaff. When Professor Owen received the earlier 
memoir, he wrote to compliment Professor Wyman upon it, 
substituted in a supplementary note the specific name imposed 
by Savage and Wyman, and reprinted in an appendix the 
osteological characters set forth by the latter. “ It does not 
appear, however[adds Dr. Wyman],either in the Proceed- 
ings or the Transactions of the[Zodlogical] Society, at what 
time our Memoir was published, nor that we had anticipated 
him in our description.” 
It is safe to assert that in this and the subsidiary papers of 
Dr. Wyman may be found the substance of all that has since 
been brought forward, bearing upon the osteological resem- 
blances and differences between men and apes. After sum- 
ming up the evidence he concludes : — 
‘“‘ The organization of the anthropoid Quadrumana justifies 
the naturalist in placing them at the head of the brute crea- 
tion and placing them in a position in which they, of all the 
animal series, shall be nearest to man. Any anatomist, how- 
ever, who will take the trouble to compare the skeletons of the 
Negro and Orang, cannot fail to be struck at sight with the 
wide gap which separates them. The difference between the 
cranium, the pelvis, and the conformation of the upper ex- 
tremities of the Negro and Caucasian, sinks into comparative 
insignificance when compared with the vast difference which 
exists between the conformation of the same parts in the 
Negro and the Orang. Yet it cannot be denied, however 
wide the separation, that the Negro and Orang do afford the 
points where man and the brute, when the totality of their 
organization is considered, most nearly approach each other.” 
