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contribution On the Classification of Birds. Bartlett reported 

 a good many interestng observations on animals in the 

 Menagerie, and some of his remarks on the Breeding of the 

 FelidcB in Captivity were borne out later by Crisp, who said 

 i/^ *'^ that up to that time (1864) no lion had been reared at the 

 Gardens, although in Womb well's and other menageries a 

 great number attained the adult state. Crisp, who seems to 

 have been a sort of honorary pathologist, was responsible 

 for more than twenty papers. Day's work afterwards formed 

 the basis of his " Fishes of India," and nearly half of Flower's 

 memoirs dealt with cetaceans. Gould described a number of 

 new species. The list of J. E. Gray's papers, most of them of 

 the ordinary type, fills eleven pages. Heseems to have been the 

 first to call attention in a scientific journal (Proceedings, 1861, 

 p. 278) to the fact that a specimen of a young gorilla was 

 exhibited for some months in Wombwell's menagerie in the 

 North of England as a chimpanzee, and was as tame and 

 tractable as the young of the species usually are. As a pendant 

 he said that an adult male black chimpanzee had been offered 

 to the British Museum as an adult female gorilla, and was 

 afterwards purchased and exhibited as such by some institution 

 on the Continent. Of at least equal importance was his 

 citation of authority for the statement that the existence of 

 an African anthropoid other than the chimpanzee — or African 

 orang, as it was then called — was clearly recognised in the first 

 quarter of the nineteenth century. The passage to which he 

 alluded runs thus: 



The African Ourang-outan (Pithecus Troglodites) is found here [in 

 the Gaboon] ; the one I saw was two feet and a half high, but said to be 

 growing. I offered a fair price for it, considering they are not rare there, 

 and would not give more when I heard of one being already in England. 

 The native name is Inchego [nschiego, now usually written tschego] : it had 

 the cry, visage, and action of a very old man, and was obedient to the 

 voice of its master. . . . There is a curious variety of monkeys. The 

 favourite and most extraordinary subject of our conversations on natural 

 history (which I introduce merely to excite inquiry) was the Ingena 

 [nglna], compared with an Ourang-outan, but much exceeding it in size, 

 being generally five feet high, and four across the shoulders ; its paw was 

 said to be even more disproportionate, and one blow of it to be fatal ; it 

 is seen commonly by those who travel to Kaylee, lurking in the bush to 

 destroy passengers, and feeding principally on the wild honey which 



