72 SIR HARRY n. JOHNSTON OX 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 Oi-angs 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. 



I cannot help thinking that in this case, as in many other 

 instances, when we are settling for good ;aid 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 remai-ks on the definite 

 knowledge of the diffei-ent 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 sjjecimen of the Gorilla was 

 brought over to Holland in the latter part of the 17th Century. 

 A figure of this creatui'e (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 mammnls that 

 were nearest to mail 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 

 designntions are rendered Simla, Cebi, and Canicipes. Aristotle's 



Language. District. Woed foe Chimpaxzee. 



3r?/oro and iT/j^a dialects. Unyoro, Toro, Ankole, and south- Isike, Yisiki, 



west of Victoria Nyanza. Ecliiknya, 



Empi\iidu, Kitera. 



Konjo Mt. Euwenzori Ekitera. 



Lihiiku Forest , north-west of Semliki Ng-ule. 



River (Mboga Country). 



Kibira Congo Forest between Semliki R. Kika. 



and Upper Congo (Arnwimi 



basin). 



Ilangala and allied Upper Congo, between Aruwimi (Mu) Kumbuso 



languages. andconfluenceofMubangi Welle, (Mu- is only the 



and between course of Congo and singular prefix). 



vicinity of Welle River. 



Lendti West of Albert Nyanza Ngrrr (r's trilled). 



JBamhtite pygmies Semliki-Aruwimi Forest U'u. 



Ilomfu North-east Bordei'lands (Congo- Tato. 



Nile Avater parting) of Congo 



Forest, west of Lendu. 



Alum North of Albert Nyanza Bim. 



Madi (Western dialects of) West of Arngu. 



Mountain Nile, north-east of 



Congo Forest. 



IfaJcarJca (Nyamnyam) . Southern and Western parts of Baham or Bamu ; 



Bahr-el-Clhazal province of also Irangba and 



Egyptian Sudan. Nderuma. 



Muiidu North-east of Makarka Ang6. 



Bongo North-west of Makarka Dedda. 



[Perhaps other travellers and philologists can fill iip the gaps in this series of 

 names.] 



