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become more intimately acquainted with tlie Gorilla, and 

 its connection with Man by the application of the Theory 

 of Descent — have excited such universal interest, and called 

 forth such a flood of writings, that there is no occasion for 

 me here to enter into any detail about them. The reader 

 will find their relations to Man fully discussed in the ex- 

 cellent works of Huxley,^^ Carl Vogt,^'' Biichner,*^ and 

 Rolle.^^ I shall therefore confine myself to stating the 

 most important general conclusion resulting from their 

 thorough comparison with Man, namely, that each one of 

 the four Man-like Apes stands nearer to Man in one or 

 several respects than the rest, but that no one of them can 

 in every respect be called absolutely the most like Man. 

 The Orang stands nearest to Man in regard to the formation 

 of the brain, the Chimpanzee in important characteristics 

 in the formation of the skull, the Gorilla in the development 

 of the feet and hands, and, lastly, the Gibbon in the forma- 

 tion of the thorax. 



Thus, from a careful examination of the comparative 

 anatomy of the Ajithropoides, we obtain a similar result to 

 that obtained by Weisbach, from a statistical classification 

 and a thoughtful comparison of the very numerous and 

 careful measurements which Scherzer and Schwarz made 

 of the different races of Men during their voyage in the 

 Austrian frigate Novara round the earth. Weisbach com- 

 prises the final result of his investigations in the follow- 

 ing words : " The ape-like characteristics of Man are by 

 no means concentrated in one or another race, but are 

 distributed in particular parts of the body, among the 

 different races, in such a manner that each is endowed 

 with some heirloom of this relationship — one race more so, 



