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of all forms of the doctrine of progressive development, above all 

 things, lovers of truth : and that, therefore, at whatever risk of 

 seeming to lend support to views which they disliked, they felt it 

 their duty to take the first opportunity of publicly repudiating 

 Professor Owen's misuse of their authority. 



In this note they frankly admitted the justice of the criticisms 

 of M. Gratiolet, quoted above, and they illustrated, by new and 

 careful figures, the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the 

 hippocampus minor of the Orang. Furthermore, having demon- 

 strated the parts, at one of the sittings of the Academy, they add, 

 " la presence des parties contestees y a et6 universellement Jeconnue 

 par les anatomistes presents & la seance. Le seul doute qui soit 

 reste se rapporte au pes Hippocampi minor. ... A 1'etat frais 

 1'indice du petit pied d'Hippocampe etait plus prononc6 que main- 

 tenant." 



Professor Owen repeated his erroneous assertions at the meeting 

 of the British Association in 1861, and again, without any obvious 

 necessity, and without adducing a single new fact or new argument, or 

 being able in any way to meet the crushing evidence from original 

 dissections of numerous Apes' brains, which had in the meanwhile 

 been brought forward by Prof. Rolleston,* F.R.S., Mr. Marshall,! 

 F.R.S., Mr. Flower,J Mr. Turner, and myself,|| revived the subject 

 at the Cambridge meeting of the same body in 1862. Not content 

 with the tolerably vigorous repudiation which these unprecedented 

 proceedings met with in Section D, Professor Owen sanctioned the 

 publication of a version of his own statements, accompanied by a 

 strange misrepresentation of mine (as may be seen by comparison 

 of the Times report of the discussion), in the Medical Times 

 for October llth, 1862. I subjoin the conclusion of my reply in the 

 same journal for October 25th. 



" If this were a question of opinion, or a question of interpretation 

 of parts or of terms, were it even a question of observation in which 

 the testimony of my own senses alone was pitted against that of 

 another person, I should adopt a very different tone in discussing 

 this matter. I should, in all humility, admit the likelihood of 

 having myself erred in judgment, failed in knowledge, or been 

 blinded by prejudice. 



" But no one pretends now, that the controversy is one of terms 

 or of opinions. Novel and devoid of authority as some of Professor 



* On the Affinities of the Brain of the Orang. Nat. Hist. Review, 

 April, 1861. 



t On the Brain of a young Chimpanzee. Ibid., July, 1861. 



t On the Posterior lobes of the Cerebrum of the Quadrumana. 

 Philosophical Transactions, 1862. 



On the anatomical Relations of the Surfaces of the Tentorium to 

 the Cerebrum and Cerebellum in Man and the lower Mammals. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, March, 1862. 



i! On the Brain of Ateles. Proceedings of Zoological Society, 

 1861. 



