Sane Account of an Or a fig Outang of re mar liable height 

 found on the Island of Sumatra, together with a des- 

 cription of certain remains of this Animal, presented 'to 



the Asiatic Society by Capt. Comfoot, and at present 

 contained in its Museum, 



By CLARKE ABEL, M.D. F.R.S. &c. &c, 



And Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. 



IN the paper which I had the honor of reading to the Asiatic Society 

 on the evening of the 5th of January last, I endeavoured to be as com- 

 prehensive as possible, in relation to the published histories of large manlike 

 apes, and to the many speculations of philosophers respecting them ; and in 

 order the better to accomplish my purpose I divided my subject under the 

 following heads. First, I gave an account of what particulars I had been 

 able to collect of the circumstances which attended the capture of the 

 Sumatra animal ; Secondly, I gave the amplest description in my power, of 

 its different remains as they were before the Society ; Thirdly, I adduced 

 a description of Wurmb's animal as described in the Batavian Trans- 

 actions, for the purpose of shewing its identity with the Sumatra Orang 

 Outang ; Fourthly, I brought forward a description of the small Orang- 

 outang of Borneo, for the purpose of shewing its relationship to the two 



