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from him in regarding the latter as being more nearly allied to the 

 Human kind. Professors I. Geoff. St. Hilaire and Duvernoy regard 

 the differences in the osteology, dentition, and external characters of 

 the Gorilla to be of generic importance, aud enter it in the Zoolo- 

 gical Catalogue as Gorilla Gina, the nomen triviale being taken 

 from 'Weggeena;' * N. Gina' and *D. jina,' as the name of the 

 beast in the Gaboon tongue, has been diversely written by voyagers*. 

 The French naturalists also concur with the American in placing 

 the Gorilla below the Chimpanzee in the scale. The author returned 

 to the discussion of those questions at the conclusion of his paper, 

 when he also referred to the notion current in some works that the 

 long-armed apes (Hylobates), and not the Orangs or Chimpanzees, 

 were the most anthropoid of apes. 



Entering upon the description of the exterior characters of the 

 adult male Gorilla, the stuffed skin of which is now in the British 

 Museum, Prof. Owen first called attention to the shortness, almost 

 absence, of the neck, due to the backward articulation of the head 

 to the trunk and the concomitant development of the spines of the 

 neck-vertebrae ; also to the chin which, in the usual pose of the 

 head, descends below the manubrium sterni ; to the great size of the 

 scapulae, to the elevation of the acromion, and the oblique position 

 of the clavicles which rise from their sternal attachments obliquely 

 to above the level of the angles of the jaw. The brain-case, low and 

 narrow, passes in the old male in an almost straight line from the 

 occiput to the superorbital ridge, the prominence of which gives the 

 most forbidding feature to the physiognomy of the Gorilla. It is 

 a feature strongly marked on the skeleton, but is exaggerated in 

 the stuffed animal by the thick supraciliary roll of integument 

 which forms a scowling penthouse over the small deep-set eyes. 

 The nose is a more prominent feature than in the Chimpanzee or 

 Orang-utan ; there is a slight median rise along its upper half, 

 answering to the feeble prominence of the same part of the nose- 

 bones, but the lower or alar part of the nose offers two thick pro- 

 jections, arching, each across its own nostril, and becoming thicker 

 as it subsides in the upper lip. There is a median longitudinal 

 depression between these arched flaps ; but their prominence brings 

 them into view in the profile of the face. The point of median 

 confluence of the alae projects a little beyond the fore part of the 

 ' septum narium.' The resemblance to the lowest form of the negro 

 nose is much closer in the Gorilla than in the Chimpanzee. The 

 mouth is wide, the lips large and thick, but of uniform thickness, 

 the upper one terminating by a straight, almost as if incised, margin ; 

 but being relatively shorter than in the Chimpanzee. The dark 

 pigment is continued from the base of the lip to this margin, and 



* The main discrepancy, in regard Jo matter of fact, is that the arms of the 

 Gorilla are stated by Isid. Geoffroy, to be much longer, whilst Prof. Owen 

 found them to be relatively shorter, than those of the Chimpanzee. 



homme 



... Genre I. Troglodytes. 

 ... Genre II. Gorilla:' 



Isid. Geoifr., p. 15, 



