JEFFRIES WYMAN 187 



Journal of Natural History, vol. 5, part 4, pp. 41 7-443 - 1 The 

 Journal was in octavo form, and the large plates had to be folded. 

 Evidently Wyman realized the importance of the subject since 

 he took trie unusual trouble to have the article reprinted in quarto 

 form with the plates on heavier paper and the text repaged and 

 very slightly rearranged but not otherwise altered, excepting as to 

 the title-page, which reads as follows: 



A DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS AND HABITS 

 OF TROGLODYTES GORILLA. BY THOMAS S. SAV- 

 AGE, M. D. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE 

 BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. AND OF 

 THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE SAME, BY JEFFRIES 

 WYMAN, M. D. HERSEY PROF. ANAT. IN HARVARD 

 UNIVERSITY. 

 (From the Boston Journal of Natural History.) 



BOSTON: PRINTED BY FREEMAN AND BOLLES. 

 1847- 



How many copies of this quarto edition were printed I have not 

 been able to learn. In the possession of Wyman's family is his 

 private copy, handsomely bound up with 26 leaves of ruled paper; 

 upon these, in Wyman's unmistakable handwriting, are copies of 

 letters relating to the gorilla, prefaced by an account of the early 

 stages of the discovery. 



This account is signed, and dated Cambridge, June 18, 1866. 

 Although referred to in the memoirs by Gray and Packard, it has 

 never been printed so far as I am aware, and it is reproduced 

 here because in several respects it is a unique document. Not 

 only is the topic of unusual zoologic and anthropologic interest; 

 it embodies a really extraordinary evidence of self-abnegation 

 upon the part of both the men most directly concerned; and it 

 constitutes, so far as I know, the sole instance of Wyman's claim 

 for priority ; yet, it will be noted, even this was merely written for 



1 This paper and the part of the Journal containing it seem to be very 

 rare; the writer will be grateful for information as to the location of copies. 



