72 SIR HARRY H. JOHNSTON ON THE [May 16, 
T do not suppose much deference will be shown to my own 
suggestions ; but it seems to me that the best generic name for 
the Orangs would be Satyrus; or, if that is strongly objected to 
because it may be confused with the specific name of one or two 
Chimpanzees, then possibly Pithecus. 
IT cannot help thinking that in this case, as in many other 
instances, when we are settling for good and for all our biological 
nomenclature, we carry too far the passion for asserting the prior 
rights of the first invented name, which is occasionally a singularly 
inappropriate one. 
I will conclude my paper with a few remarks on the definite 
knowledge of the different species of Anthropoid Apes from the 
dawn of zoological science in Greece to the end of the 18th 
Century of the present era, by which time European zoologists had 
begun to discriminate pretty clearly between the Gibbons, the 
Orang, and the Chimpanzee. Knowledge of the Gorilla of course 
was not clearly defined till about 1848 or even later. It is 
possible, however, that a living specimen of the Gorilla was 
brought over to Holland in the latter part of the 17th Century. 
A figure of this creature (which was a female) is given in 
Dr. Tyson’s work on the Chimpanzee, published in London in 1699. 
_ Aristotle, writing in about 330 B.c., divided the mammals that 
were nearest to man into three closely allied groups: the Pithekoi 
or Apes, the Keboi or Monkeys, and the Kunokephaloi or dog- 
faced Baboons. In the Latin translations of Aristotle these 
designations are rendered Simia, Cebi, and Canicipes. Aristotle’s 
LANGUAGE. District. Worp For CHIMPANZEE. 
Nyoroand Hima dialects. Unyoro, Toro, Ankole, and south- Isike, Yisiki, 
west of Victoria Nyanza. Kchikuya, 
Empundu, Kitera. 
TROPPO cnpsenscagoarcenoonna Wiki, TREN KEMATN p00 5. sovanegeaa  LWESKREED, 
TARUEW occ ec ese esses... Forest, north-w est of Semliki Neule. 
River (Mboga Country). 
Bibira .....0.c.......... Congo Forest between Semliki R. Kika. 
and Upper Congo (Aruwimi 
basin). 
Mangala and allied Upper Congo, between Aruwimi (Mu) Kumbuso 
languages. and confluence of Mubangi Welle, (Mu- is only the 
and between course of Congo and singular prefix). 
vicinity of Welle River. 
Lend y...... es: West of Albert Nyanza ............ Nerrr (2’s trilled). 
Bambute pyginies ee Semliki-Aruwimi Forest . Un. 
Momfu ....... + North-east Borderlands (Ce ongo- Tato. 
Nile water parting) of Congo 
Forest, west of Lendu. 
SAL atropine dara tern eatin ese North of Albert Nyanza een Bin. 
Madi ..........00.05..4..... (Western dialects of) West of Arugu. 
Mountain Nile, north-east of 
Congo Forest. 
Makarka (Nyamnyam). Southern and Western parts of Baham or Bamu; 
Bahr-el-Ghazal province of also Irangba and 
Egyptian Sudan. Nderuma. 
Mund... cccccecseees, North-east of Makarka.. ... Angé. 
JECT ~ coreoae0oor North-west of Makarka redline. oe Deddar 
foe sine tray selles and Philologists -¢ can fill up the gaps in this series of 
names 
