6 ANTHROPOID APES. 



Paul Belloni du Chaillu, born in North America 

 of French parents,and reared in his father's mercantile 

 house on the Gaboon, spent the years 1855-65 in 

 roaming through the lands bordering on the Gaboon, 

 the Ogowe, and the Fernao Vaz; he professed to 

 have taken part in gorilla-hunts, and he published 

 several books about his travels (24). Critical light 

 has been thrown upon these works, especially by 

 A. E. Brehm and Win wood (25) ; the illustrations 

 are defective, and the text is full of tales of ad- 

 venture. Du Chaillu's information respecting the 

 African anthropoids was published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society of London (26). His 

 remarkable collection of the remains of apes has 

 been described by Jeffreys Wyman (27), to whom 

 we are also indebted for a notice of the materials 

 collected by Savage (17). 



Owen has published instructive anatomical treatises 

 on the gorilla and the chimpanzee, in addition to 

 those already cited. This English professor had 

 the opportunity of dissecting a young male gorilla, 

 imperfectly preserved in spirits of wine (28). The 

 travellers Burton (29), de Compiegne (30), Savon- 

 gnan de Brazza (31), Lenz (32), the members of the 

 German-African Loango Expedition (.33), and Von 

 Koppenfels (34) have also contributed some infor- 

 mation respecting the gorilla in a wild state. Other 

 works on the zoology and anatomy of this animal 

 have been published by Duvernoy, already cited, 

 Dahlbom (35), Haeckel (36), Flowe'r (37), Issel (38), 

 Giglioli (39), Chapman (40), Mivart (41),Maoaiister 

 (llA), Von Aeby (42), Lucae (43), Ecker (44), 



