WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
THE GOHILLA. 
The annals of the Zoological Society contain some 
interesting records of the gorilla. 
At an evening meeting of the Zoological Society, held 
on February 22, 1848, a paper was read by Professor 
Owen on a new species of chimpanzee. This animal was 
THE GORILLA. 
distinguished from the well-known chimpanzee by the 
skull alone, and the name proposed by the Professor was 
Troglodytes Savagei, after Dr. Thomas Savage, by whom 
it had been discovered, and its existence made known to 
Professor Owen. 
At an evening meeting of the above Society, held on 
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