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possessions as long as their strength endured. 
In compensation for the absence of intellectual 
power, the inability to put two ideas together, to 
construct a weapon of defence, or to articulate 
a word, the gorilla had allotted to him the maxi- 
mum of physical power. 
Compared to the gorilla, man was physically 
but a weak and feeble creature, but man possessed 
the highest type of brain, his whole structure was 
beautifully balanced, the lower limbs were equal to 
the upper, the trunk was not disproportioned to the 
rest, and the structure of the spine, which bore, 
Well poised, that wonderful bony globe which 
contained the cerebral region, was beautifully ar- 
ranged. Man was more independent than any 
other animal ; the backs of the gorilla’s hands 
gave evidence that when he walked on land he 
Was obliged to use his arms as well as his legs 
for locomotive purposes ; but man, and man 
ttlone, could walk erect, and use the upper limbs 
free and independent of the rest of the body. 
In the summer of this year M. Du Chaillu 
Was a frequent visitor at Sheen Lodge, and 
Professor Owen remarks on the pleasure which 
'•be purchase of the Gorilla Collection by the 
British Museum had afforded him. ‘ Those se- 
lected for the Museum,’ he says, ‘ are the best.’ 
To his wife, who had gone for a holiday to 
Boulogne, Owen writes, on August 6, 1861, a 
long letter, full of particulars of his engagements. 
