TEE oMISSENG LINK 
The hand of the chimpanzee is long and thin; it is in 
fact convertible into a hook for hanging on to branches ; 
in the gorilla the hand is shorter and the fingers are 
webbed at the base as in the human hand, to which 
it bears considerable resemblance. It has been well 
said that if the dictum, “ Ex pede Herculem ”’ is true, 
so is the further evolution of that observation, “‘ Ex 
calce hominem.’ Now the gorilla has a better heel 
than the chimpanzee; and this again is associated 
with the frequent travels of that animal upon the ground 
in a more or less walking posture. Certain muscles 
tell the same tale. Indeed we may fairly come to the 
conclusion that the gorilla is much nearer to that 
mysterious and at present totally unknown creature, 
which first crossed the narrow line dividing the ape 
from the man, than is the chimpanzee. Whether the 
famous Pithecanthropus erectus of Dubois, whose bony 
fragments were found in Java, is the “ missing link ”’ 
or not, cannot be decided; but it is unquestionably 
a suitable candidate for that position so far as the top 
of the skull enables us to form a judgment. Chimpan- 
zees have been divided into more than one kind, and 
such names as Anthropopithecus calvus, aubryi, kulu- 
kamba, have been given to these varieties. The variety 
which has the most claim to be regarded as an indepen- 
dent form is that represented by the notorious Sally, 
The species, if species it be, was brought home by du 
Chaillu, and that specimen is now in the British Museum 
at South Kensington. Sally’s stuffed skin adorns Mr. 
Rothschild’s museum at Tring, while her brain reposes 
in the University Museum at Oxford. The gorilla, 
too, has been lately subdivided. In fact, it used to be 
thought that both apes were limited in range to the 
gloomy forests of the Gaboon.. But it is now well 
known, thanks to Emin Pasha and others, that the 
chimpanzee goes much farther east, and so in all pro- 
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