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in the Zoological Garden at Frankfort-on-the-Main should 

 not be overlooked. 



Dr. Sclater's contributions were very numerous ; probably 

 the most important were those on the birds obtained by the 

 Challenger Expedition. In one of his exhibitions he made 

 some addition to the knowledge of Wombwell's gorilla, first 

 referred to by J. E. Gray (see p. 146). He showed two photo- 

 graphs of Ealkenstein's gorilla,-^ which the Berlin Aquarium 

 had purchased for 10,000 marks, and the chalk drawing by 

 Wolf of Wombwell's gorilla, that now hangs in the meeting- 

 room. In connection with this anthropoid he read the following 

 note from Bartlett : 



In the year 1861 I saw, in the collection of the late Mr. Charles 

 Waterton, a mounted specimen of a young gorilla.t It had been prepared 

 from an individual that had been exhibited alive in the No. 1 Collection 

 of Wombwell's travelling menagerie, where it had lived upwards of seven 

 months. 



Although Waterton called this animal a chimpanzee, his 

 description J is sufficiently exact to enable anyone at the 

 present day to decide that it was really a gorilla. He refers to 

 the protuberant abdomen, the small ears, and the prominent 

 flat nose, " as if some officious midwife had pressed it down 

 with her finger and thumb at the hour of Jenny's birth." 



At the time of the Du Chaillu controversy, in 1861, a letter 

 from "A Missionary" appeared in the Morning Advertiser of 

 October 1. The following passage is of interest, not only as 

 bearing on Wombwell's gorilla, but as showing how the African 

 anthropoids are procured for menagerie purposes: 



I have had several young or half-grovi^n gorilla {sic) alive at d liferent 

 times on my premises, where they were allowed great liberty, following the 

 person about who fed them just as the young chimpanzee does. Indeed, 

 I see very little difference in the habits and disposition of the two animals, 

 and I think this is proved by the fact that five years ago I sent a young 



•This was the Pongo exhibited at the Westminster Aquarium. 



t At "Waterton's death, in 1865, this went, with the rest of his collection, to 

 Ushaw College. The author is indebted to the Be v. Joseph Broadhead, Procurator 

 of that College, for the information that the whole collection was sent, about 

 twenty years ago, to Alston Hall, near Preston, the seat of the Mercers, relatives 

 of the Watertons. 



X "Essays on Natural History," 3rd Series, pp. 63-67. 



