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Bolau (45), Pansch (46), Lenz (47), A. B. Meyer 

 (48), E. Meyer (49), Bischoff (50), Ehlers (51), 

 Virchow (52), Von Bar (53), by the author of this 

 work (54), etc. Duvevnoy, Chapman, Bischoff, Bolau, 

 Ehlers, and I have, like Owen, been able to dissect 

 perfect specimens of the gorilla. Two of the speci- 

 mens which came into my hands were unquestionably 

 in the best condition, since I obtained them imme- 

 diately after their deaths in Berlin. A larger 

 specimen of a female, 1000 mm. tall, was in worse 

 preservation, yet still quite available for the purposes 

 of study. 



The list of anatomical treatises on the gorilla is 

 not yet exhausted. Valuable information may be 

 found in the anthropological works by C. Vogt (55), 

 in the writings of Pruner-Bey (56), and Magitot (57), 

 in Darwin's works (58), in Histoire Naturelle des 

 Mammiferes, by Gervais (59), in Huxley's Anatomy 

 of Vertehrated Animals (60), in Flower's Osteology of 

 the Mammalia (61), in Giebel's Odontogra-phie (62), 

 and in many other handbooks and treatises on natural 

 history, which want of room forbids me to mention. 



In 1860, so far as I am aware, the first living 

 gorilla reached England. It survived its arrival 

 seven months, and a good illustration of this 

 creature, accompanied by a brief description, has 

 been recently published in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London (63). In 1876, to- 

 wards the end of June, Dr. Falckenstein brought 

 the second living gorilla from Loango to Berlin. 

 It had been kept in confinement in that country 

 at the German station Chinchoxo since 1874, and 



