1 \'2 SPECIES NOT 



old world, which approach more or less in structure 

 to that of the human race. 1st. The chimpan- 

 zee, the Homo troglodytes of Linnreus, more cor- 

 rectly named by Blmnenbach, Simia troglodytes. 

 2nd. The orang-outang, or wood-man of the 

 natives of Borneo, from whence the creature was 

 first procured. 3rd. The Gorilla, or, as it is 

 named by Owen, Troglodytes gorilla, which was 

 discovered in 1847, in the Gamboor river, in the 

 west coast of Africa, by Dr. Savage, a missionary, 

 and described by Owen in the Transactions of the 

 Zoological Society for 1848. This latter creature 

 has since then been received dead in England, 

 and there are two stuffed specimens in the British 

 Museum. All about its structure and habits will 

 be found in the works alluded to by Professor 

 Owen ; or a very good description may be obtained 

 for sixpence, in one of the early numbers of 

 "Cassell's Illustrated Natural History." 



It is not my intention here to enter into a 

 detail <f the anatomy of this creature. I will 

 however relate the results of Professor Owen's 

 researches. I may state that a fourth ape, the 

 Gibbon, has been considered by Lartet, a French 

 palaeontologist, as approaching nearer to man than 

 the others, and this opinion has been accepted 

 by Sir C. Lyell, (Supplement to Fifth Edition of 

 -.Manual of Elementary Geology," 1859, p. 15.) 



It is sufficient to state that Professor Owen 

 has clearly proved that the Gorilla is the most 

 anthropoid ape; but it matters little to the ar- 

 gument which of the four is assumed to be, for 



