Dr, L, J. Sanford on the Gorilla. 53 
recorded in an interesting way in his published volume.* We 
shall take the liberty of using some of the author’s statements, 
in a report of the animal, which we now undertake. 
In its size, the fully developed gorilla is the largest anthropoid 
ape known—it varies though, in this particular, as much as flees 
man ; range, among adult males, is said by DuChaillu to be 
from five feet two inches, to six feet two inches. One specimen 
whose proportions are given, measured in length, five feet nine 
inches; the chest had a circumference of sixty-two inches, an 
the arms extended, spanned nine feet. 
e bones comprising the skeleton, are massive, and they pos- 
sess a greater density of structure than in animals generally. In 
number, position, and form, they approach human bones closely, 
and when articulated in the skeleton, are quite ag of 
that higher animal. For convenience of description and com- 
owing the difference which exists in the place of connection of 
the head with the vertebral column. In the gorilla, the articu- 
lating point is so far back on the base of the skull, that the ani- 
ment—headache. : : 
Tn the conformation of the skull, a great difference is apparent 
between all the apes and man. In the latter, the bones of the 
face are arranged dicularly, or nearly so, under those of 
the cranium. ‘So fiat the facial angle (the angle formed between 
* Adventures in Equatorial Africa by Paul B. DuChaillu—published by Harper 
and Bros. N.Y. 1861. ! ; 
+ For the dimensions of the gorilla as given by Dr. Gray, see this Journal, vol. 
XXXL, p. 437, 
