BOSTON 
JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
VOLUME V.— No. IV. 
DECEMBER, 1847. 
RT. XXX —NOTICE OF THE EXTERNAL CHARACTERS AND 
e ariin OF TROGLODYTES GORILLA, A NEW SPECIES OF ORANG 
ROM THE GABOON RIVER, By Tuomas S. Savacz, M. D., Corresp. 
"eie Boston Soc. Nat. ; OSTEOLOGY OF THE SAME, By JEFFRIES 
Wyman M. D. Hersey Prof. Aust. in Harvard University. Read Aug. uc 1847. 
Four species of anthr T id Simi; commonly ES as 
Orangs,* have been described by naturalists; of these, three 
are found in the eastern pali either on the continent of 
Asia, or the islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Java, and a fourth 
on the western coast of Africa. In the East there exists - 
4 Simia n Lin. -Fithesus vite ge S. ae 
Cone. Mets Art. Simie, Vol. XE een 
_ The term tm Orang, more am, incorrectly written Ourang, is strictly ap- 
war to the Eastern species only. p is a Malay word, which means a rea- 
being, and is also given to man and the elephant, Outan means wild or of 
woods ; Orang-outan wild man, Cambang outan, wild hic Outang, the word 
| used as the adjective, signifies a robber. ee imei 
igne ox. Vol. L, p. 87, note, Doa 
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