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Fissures, and in the arrangement of its Convolutions, as 

 far as they go, there is this striking resemblance to the 

 human brain, yet in actual size or weight the brain of the 

 * man-like ' Apes is widely separated from that of Man. 

 The heaviest brain belonging to one of these creatures, 

 as yet examined, has been barely one-half of the weight of 

 the smallest normal human brains, although the weight 

 of the entire body in the great Gorilla may be nearly 

 double that of an ordinary Man. The brains of these 

 three kinds of * man-like ' Apes differ considerably among 

 themselves ; as we have seen, each in some respects 

 approaches nearer to that of Man than the others, though 

 on the whole it is considered that the brain of the Orang 

 is slightly higher in type than that of the other two. 

 They likewise differ from one another a good deal in 

 disposition and in general bearing. 



Some years ago a very interesting baby Chimpanzee 

 was obtained from the natives of the Gambia coast. 

 His mother had been shot when he was about twelve 

 months old, and after a short time he was sent to London, 

 and became famous, young as he was, for his great 

 intelligence and human-like conduct. Soon after his 

 arrival at the Zoological Gardens, this young Chim- 

 panzee was visited by a distinguished zoologist, Mr. 

 Broderip, who has given the following account of him 

 (Cassell's " Nat. Hist.," p. 54) :— 



*' I saw him for the first time in the kitchen belonging to the 

 keeper's apartments, dressed in a little Guernsey shirt, or banyan 

 jacket. He was sitting child-like in the lap of a good old woman, 

 to whom he clung whenever she made show of putting him down 



He had already become very fond of his good old nurse, 



and she had evidently become attached to her nursling, although 



they had only been acquainted for three or four days On 



another occasion, and when he had become familiar with me, I 

 caused, in the midst of his play, a looking-glass to be brought and 

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