90 Jeffries Wyman. 
This Memoir was read before this society on the 18th of 
August, 1847, and was published before the close of the year. 
But it had not, as it appears, come to Professor Owen’s knowl- 
edge when the latter presented to the London Zoological So- 
ciety, on the of February, 1848, a memoir founded on 
three skulls of the same species, just received from Africa 
through Captain Wagstaff. When Professor Owen received 
the earlier Memoir, he wrote to compliment Professor Wyman 
upon it, substituted in a supplementary note the specific name 
imposed by Savage and Wyman, and reprinted in an appendix 
the osteological characters set forth by the latter. ‘‘ It does not 
appear, however (adds Dr. Wyman), either in the Proceedings 
or the Transactions of the (Zoological) Society at what time our 
Memoir was published, nor that we had anticipated him in out 
description.” 
It is safe to assert that in this and the subsidiary papers of 
Dr. Wyman may be found the substance of all that has since 
been brought forward, bearing upon the osteological resem- 
blances and differences between men andapes. After summing 
up the evidence, he concludes :— ; 
“The organization of the anthropoid Quadrumana justifies 
the naturalist in placing them at the head of the brute creation, 
and placing them in a position in which they, of all the animal 
series, shall be nearest to man. Any anatomist. however, wh 
will take the trouble to compare the skeletons of the Negro and 
Orang, cannot fail to be struck at sight with the wide gap whic 
separates them. The difference between the cranium, the pelvis, 
and the conformation of the upper extremities in the Negro and 
Caucasian, sinks into comparative insignificance when com 
pared with the vast difference which exists between the con- 
formation of the same parts in the Negro and the Orang. Yet 
it cannot be denied, however wide the separation, that the 
Negro and Orang do afford the points where man and the brute, 
when the totality of their organization is considered, most nearly 
ea oe each other.” 
lecting now for further comment only some of the more 
noticeable contributions to science, we should not ee. by his 
investigations of the anatomy of the Blind Fish o 
moth Cave. The series began, in that prolific year, 1848, with 
a paper published in this Journal, and closed with an article 10 
the same Journal in 1854. Although Dr. Tellkamph had pre- 
ceded him in ascertaining the existence of rudimentary eyes 
and the special development of the fifth pair of nerves, yet for 
whole details of the subject, and the minute anatomy, we 9% 
indebted to Professor Wyman. Many of the details, howevel; 
as well as the admirable drawings illustrating them, remaine” 
unpublished until 1872, when he placed them at Mr. Putnam’ 
