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stature, singularly human in aspect, gentle and 

 docile ; while Wurmb's Pongo was a monster 

 almost twice their size, of vast strength and 

 fierceness, and very brutal in expression ; its great 

 projecting muzzle, armed with strong teeth, being 

 further disfigured by the outgrowth of the cheeks 

 into fleshy lobes. 



Eventually, in accordance with the usual 

 marauding habits of the Revolutionary armies, 

 the " Pongo " skeleton was carried away from 

 Holland into France, and notices of it, expressly 

 intended to demonstrate its entire distinctness from 

 the Orang and its affinity with the baboons, were 

 given, in 1798, by Geoffroy St. Hilaire and Cuvier. 



Even in Cuvier's " Tableau ]lementaire," and 

 in the first edition of his great work, the " Regne 

 Animal," the " Pongo " is classed as a species of 

 Baboon. However, so early as 1818, it appears 

 that Cuvier saw reason to alter this opinion, and 

 to adopt the view suggested several years before 

 by Blumenbach, 1 and after him by Tilesius, that 

 the Bornean Pongo is simply an adult Orang. In 

 1824, Rudolphi demonstrated, by the condition 

 of the dentition, more fully and completely than 

 had been done by his predecessors, that the 

 Orangs described up to that time were all young 

 animals, and that the skull and teeth of the adult 



1 See Blumenbach Abbildungen NaturTiistorichen Gegenstande, 

 No. 12, 1810 ; and Tilesius, Naturhistoriclie Fruchte der ersten 

 Kaiser lich-liussischcn Erdumscg clung, p. 115, 1813. 



