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nearly resembling it ; of tlie organ of voice ; tlien, in 
tletail, of the internal vi.scera, in Imtli sexes ; then of 
the skeleton generally, compared with that of man, 
and with others of the Simiadai; then particularly 
nf the head, vertebrse, pelvis, and lower and upper 
extremities. On all these points, the treatise is most 
•niimte and particular, passing l)y nothing of moment, 
nr which could throw light on the iteculiar habits of 
any of the species. 
^Ve shall now introduce to the notice of our 
reader.s a few detached sentences only, concerning a 
'^ery singular structure in the necks of these animals, 
n'hich our author seems to have been the first to 
discover, or, at all events, to investigate and eluci- 
date in a way at all satisfactory. The novelty of 
^'s observations on tbe subject is sufficiently mani- 
Rested by an anecdote he relates as having occurred 
in the Royal Menagerie of Petit Loo. On Cam- 
Pnrs visiting it one day, he found the superinten- 
dent of the establishment in great dismay, at the 
audden appearance of an elastic swelling about tbe 
neck of the. orang-outang, extending along the front 
nnd sides of the throat, and <]e.scending to nearly the 
niiddle of the chest. The keeper supposed that it 
"as the commencement of some alarming malady, 
nnd the Professor had considertihle difficulty in per- 
suading him of the contrary. 
^ tn my first di.ssection of a monkey at Franeker, 
n’as not aware of the necessity of studying the 
parts connected with the organ of voice, because the 
