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edge when the latter presented to the London Zoological 

 Society, on the 22d of February, 1848, a memoir founded 

 on three skulls of the same species, just received from Africa 

 through Capt. Wagstaff. When Prof. Owen received the 

 earlier Memoir, he wrote to compliment Prof. Wyman upon 

 it, substituted in a supplementary note the specific name im- 

 posed 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 Pro- 

 ceedings or the Transactions of the [Zoological] Society, at 

 what time our Memoir was published, nor that we had antici- 

 pated him in our 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 and apes. After sum- 

 ming 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, who will take the trouble to compare the skeletons 

 of the Negro and Orang, cannot fail to be struck at sight 

 with the wide gap which separates them. The difference be- 

 tween the cranium, the pelvis, and the conformation of the 

 upper extremities in the *N"egro and Caucasian, sinks into 

 comparative insignificance when compared with the vast 

 difference which exists between the conformation 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 



