420 



THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON 



Text-fi£?. 103. 



[Dec. 13, 



Skull of Gorilla gorilla dieJili Matschie. (In Triiig Museum.) 



' Systema Natiira?,' i. p. 25 (ed. x. 1758) an anthropoid ape as 

 follows : — 



" Satyrus. 1. tS. ecaudata subtns nuda. Syst. Nat. vi. p. 3. 

 jSati/rus indicus Tulp. obs. Ill c. 56. 

 Habitat in Africa,. Asia. 



Magnitudine pneri sexennis. Dorsum crinibus nigris hir- 

 sutum ; subtus s. antice undique glaber." 



Tulp desci'ibed and figured an ape which was brought from 

 West Afi'ica and presented to Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, 

 and which lived some years in Eiu'ope. 



Linnaeus copied Tulp's description almost word for word, and, 

 as quoted above, expressly states that the S. satyrus was black on 

 the back. It was only in his twelfth edition (1766) that Linnaeus 

 calls the OrangOutan Simia satyrus, and says it is red-haired, 

 but he had already, in the ' Amcenitates Academicfe,' vi. p. 69 

 (1763), named the red-haired animal Simla pygmcetis. Not only, 



