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Dr, L. J. Sanford on the Gorilla. 55° 
endowment, and it places the possessor retrograde among his 
congeners, for they are without it, excepting only the orang-cetan. 
In the quadrumana generally, the top of the head is regularly 
round and smooth. Again, in the gorilla, the face is not so bro 
in proportion to length, as in the kooloo-kamba. In this species, 
the peculiar development of the cheek (malar) bones, gives a 
great breadth to the face, and this, in conjunction with a more 
symmetrical nose and mouth, enables the animal to wear a coun- 
tenance which is strangely human. A plump-faced member of 
Tequlre greater eV and strength in that member. The lon- 
er 
the knee, and the gorilla, a little above it, he therefore comes near- 
est to man, whose reach is to the middle of the thigh,—and con- 
