78 FOURTH GENERAL MEETING. 



ques-uns de ces moulages de myologie les fassent reproduire a 

 plusieurs exemplaires de facon que chacun d'eux puisse se procurer, 

 par voie d'echange, une collection aussi complete que possible des 

 principaux types de musculature chez les Vertebres. 



The Section then adjourned to the Cavendish Laboratory to 

 hear the remaining papers. 



Mr Duckworth read his " Notes on Anthropoid Apes," illus- 

 trated by Lantern Slides. The following is an abstract : 



(i) General considerations. 



The general study of the higher members of the Order 

 Primates. 



Special notice of Gorilla savagei (Geoffr.). 



Principal Contributors to our knowledge of Gorilla, in America, 

 England, France and Germany. 



The material at their disposal at Le Havre, Liverpool, Paris, 

 London, Berlin. 



Character of the earlier studies on Gorilla, e.g. those of Wyman, 

 Owen, Duvernoy. 



Character of later studies on this animal, e.g. those of Deniker, 

 Waldeyer. 



(ii) An account of specimens at Cambridge, with a description 

 of the author's dissection of an anthropoid ape, which appears to 

 be a variety intermediate between Gorilla and Chimpanzee. The 

 cutaneous nerve supply to the lower extremity of this specimen (as 

 well as of examples of Orang-utan and of Chimpanzee) has been 

 dissected out so that comparisons can be instituted. 



In conclusion some of the most recent additions to the Cam- 

 bridge Collection were described. 



Canon TRISTRAM then took the chair and Mons. E. DUBOIS 

 read his paper on " Pithecanthropus erectus." 



Remarks upon the Brain-cast of Pithecanthropus 



ERECTUS. By Dr EUG. DUBOIS. 



At one of the meetings of the Third International Congress of 

 Zoology, held at Leiden in 1895, I had the honour to show to those 

 who attended that meeting the remains of PitJiecantJiropus erectus, 

 brought by me from Java only six weeks previously. 



On that occasion I preferred to speak of the questions which 

 are raised by these interesting but, at the same time, somewhat 

 paradoxical fossil specimens, only in a very cursory way. 



During the three years that have elapsed since then, much 

 additional study has been devoted by me to them, and I consider 

 it to be my duty now to bring some of these questions before 



