OUR ACQUAINTANCE WITH ANTHROPOID APES. 5 



Owen that there was an ape in that country larger 

 than the chimpanzee. In addition to this informa- 

 tion, he sent some drawings of skulls by the wife of 

 an English missionary, Prince, in which the supra- 

 orbital arch is strongly developed. Savage gave 

 to the animal the name of Troglodytes Gorilla, to 

 distinguish it from Troglodytes niger, the chim- 

 panzee. Qjren also described two skulls of gorillas, 

 sent to him from the Gaboon (16). The skull of 

 a gorilla, sent to Boston by the missionary Wilson, 

 was drawn and described by Professor Jeffreys 

 Wyman, and with it the notes of the donor were 

 also published (17). In 1851 the skeleton of a 

 gorilla reached Philadelphia through the medical 

 missionary H. A. Ford, who also published the latest 

 accounts of the new anthropoid (18). In 1849 

 some remains of a gorilla reached Paris through 

 Gautier Laboulaye, and this valuable contribution 

 to natural history was received by de Blainville 

 and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In 1851 and 

 1852 more perfect remains were presented to the 

 Museum in Paris by Dr. Franquet and Admiral 

 Penaud. In the finely illustrated works by de 

 Blainville (19), Is. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (20), and 

 Duvernoy (21), they are represented with great care. 

 A splendid illustration of one of these specimens, 

 excellently stuffed, consisting of an adult male, 

 adorns the Photographie zoologique, by L. Bousseau 

 and A. Deveria, which has, so far as I am aware, 

 been published without any text (22). This illus- 

 tration is so true to nature that I made use. of it in 

 one of my earlier publications (23). 



