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XXII. An Accotait of a Pair of hinder Hands of an Orang 

 Otang, deposited in the Collection of the Triniti/-IIouse, Hull. 

 Bi/ John Haricood, M.D., F.R.S. and L.S. Communicated 

 bi/ the Zoological Club of the Linnean Societi/. 



Read June 19, 1827. 



In viewing the collection belonging to the Trinity-House, Hull, 

 being no less interested than surprised by the extraordinary size 

 and appearance of a pair of the hinder hands of an Orang Otang 

 contained in a glass vessel, I became anxious to obtain all the 

 information possible concerning them ; and I have now the plea- 

 sure of laying it before the Linnean Society. — On the otli of 

 June 1833, Captain John Anderson, (since deceased,) master of 

 the ship Lord Wellington, of Hull, presented to the Board (to 

 use the words contained in his letter to them) " two of the feet 

 of an Orang Otang, which had been presented to him in the 

 year 1831 by the native Sultan of Pontianna in Borneo, in 

 whose family they had remained as a great curiosity during 

 154 years. This chief," he continues, " is remarkably fond of 

 the English nation ; and added, in presenting them to me, that 

 the apparent strength of the feet of this animal would indicate 

 the power of his attachment to them and their interests." Such, 

 then, is the only portion of history I have been enabled, or am 

 likely, to collect concerning these specimens. In confirmation 

 of the above account, on visiting the residence of the late 

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