14 THE MAN-LIKE APES 1 



Although fully appreciating the resemblances be- 

 tween his Pygmie and Man, Tyson by no means 

 overlooked the differences between the two, and 

 he concludes his memoir by summing up first, the 

 points in which " the Ourang-outang or Pygmie 

 more resembled a Man than Apes and Monkeys 

 do," under forty-seven distinct heads ; and then 

 giving, in thirty-four similar brief paragraphs, the 

 respects in which " the Ourang-outang or Pygmie 

 differ'd from a man and resembled more the Ape 

 and Monkey kind." 



After a careful survey of the literature of the 

 subject extant in his time, our author arrives at 

 the conclusion that his " Pygmie " is identical 

 neither with the Orangs of Tulpius and Bontius, 

 nor with the Quoias Morrou of Dapper (or rather 

 of Tulpius), the Barris of d'Arcos, nor with the 

 Pongo of Battell ; but that it is a species of ape 

 probably identical with the Pygmies of the 

 Ancients, and, says Tyson, though it " does so 

 much resemble a Man in many of its parts, more 

 than any of the ape kind, or any other animal in 

 the world, that I know of : yet by no means do I 

 look upon it as the product of a mixt generation 



interesting relic to my knowledge. Tyson's granddaughter, it 

 appears, married Dr. Allardyce, a physician of repute in 

 Cheltenham, and brought, as part of her dowry, the skeleton of 

 the " Pygmie." Dr. Allardyce presented it to the Cheltenham 

 Museum, and, through the good offices of my friend Dr. 

 Wright, the authoiities of the Museum have permitted me to 

 borrow, what is, perhaps, its most remarkable ornament. 



