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made by that distinguished comparative anatomist 

 with respect to the length of the arm of the 

 orang-outang. 



I cannot do better than give Professor Owen's 

 views with regard to the Gorilla, both as an 

 answer to the above, I think, -very unfair infer- 

 ence of Mr. Darwin, and also to set at rest, as 

 far as can be done by the highest authority, 

 and a deduction of the soundest character from 

 facts, the transmutation doctrine itself. The evi- 

 dence now to be adduced in fact breaks down 

 Mr. Darwin's theory altogether. It is so complete 

 an answer to the book, though published before 

 it, that I might lay down my pen did I not 

 think it an act of fairness to go through the 

 whole. 



The Gorilla is the most anthropoid ape known, 

 according to Professor Owen. In this opinion 

 however, it is right to say that other comparative 

 anatomists do not concur. Dr. Wyman, Professor 

 of Anatomy, Boston, U.S., and Professors Duvernoy 

 and Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, of Paris, con- 

 cur in ascribing the nearest approach to man 

 to the chimpanzee. Professor Owen's analysis 

 however of the entire question, (which may be 

 seen either in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society, Part I., January to March, 1859, or in 

 the Appendix to his "Lecture on the Classification 

 of the Mammalia." Parker and Son, 1859,) is 

 a masterly specimen of scientific induction and 

 sound reasoning. 



There are three apes, all inhabitants of the 



