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having most unexpectedly presented itself to me, I am able 
to bear independent testimony to its being a veritable Trog- 
Fias. 3 & 4.—The ‘ Pygmie’ reduced from Tyson’s figures 1 and 2, 1699. 
lodytes niger,* though still very young. Although fully 
appreciating the resemblances between his Pygmie and Man, 
Tyson by no means overlooked the differences between the 
two, and he concludes his memoir by summing up first, the 
points in which “the Ourang-outang or Pygmie more re- 
sembled a Man than Apes and Monkeys do,” under forty-seven 
distinct heads; and then giving, in thirty-four similar brief 
paragraphs, the respects in which “the Ourang-outang or 
* [ am indebted to Dr. Wright, of Cheltenham, whose paleontological labours 
are so well known, for bringing this interesting relic tomy knowledge. Tyson’s 
granddaughter, it appears, married Dr. Allardyce, a physician of repute in 
Cheltenham, and brought, as part of her dowry, the skeleton of the ‘Pygmie.’ 
Dr. Allardyce presented it to the Cheltenham Museum, and, through the good 
offices of my friend Dr. Wright, the authorities of the Museum have permitted 
me to borrow, what is, perhaps, its most remarkable ornament. 
