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of the Chimpanzee and Orang (figs. 176 and 177), on the other, are here 



presented ; in order that their respective proportions may be the more 



easily appreciated, and to shew that the differences between the cranium 



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Chimpanzee. 



Orang. 



of Man and of these Simiae are not limited merely to the development of 

 the forehead, the ratio between the face and the cranial cavity, the hiatus 

 between the upper canines and the incisors, the oblique position of the 

 incisors, the length of the canines (though circumstances of great import- 

 ance), but extend, also, to a variety of other points of structure. 



It has been reiterated, that the skull of the Negro forms an interme- 

 diate link between that of the European, and of the Orang or Chimpanzee ; 

 and one point of approximation, between the former and the latter, is said 

 to consist in the situation of the foramen magnum, a. Now, in the skull 

 of a Negro (fig. 175), this foramen differs in position but very little from 

 that of the well-formed skull of a native of England (fig. 1 74) ; while the 

 posterior situation of the foramen, both in the skull of the Chimpanzee 



