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^fearly resembling it ; of the organ of voice ; then, in 

 detail, of the internal viscera, in both sexes ; then of 

 the skeleton generally, compared with that of man, 

 and with others of the Simiadce; then particularly 

 of the head, vertebrae, pelvis, and lower and upper 

 extremities. On all these points, the treatise is most 

 minute and particular, passing by nothing of moment, 

 or which could throw light on the peculiar habits of 

 any of the species. 



We shall now introduce to the notice of our 

 readers a few detached sentences only, concerning a 

 very singular structure in the necks of these animals, 

 which our author seems to have been the first to 

 discover, or, at all events, to investigate and eluci- 

 date in a way at all satisfactory. The novelty of 

 his observations on the subject is sufficiently mani- 

 fested by an anecdote he relates as having occurred 

 in the Royal Menagerie of Petit Loo. On Cam- 

 per's visiting it one day, he found the superinten- 

 dent of the establishment in great dismay, at the 

 sudden appearance of an elastic swelling about the 

 neck of the orang-outang, extending along the front 

 and sides of the throat, and descending to nearly the 

 middle of the chest. The keeper supposed that it 

 was the commencement of some alarming malady, 

 and the Professor had considerable difficulty in per- 

 suading him of the contrary. 



" In my first dissection of a monkey at Franeker, 

 1 was not aware of the necessity of studying the 

 parts connected with the organ of voice, because the 



