. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. ubt the fact. Eor, appended to thememoir De IOurang-outang, in the collected edition of Cam- * Briefe des Herrn v. Wurmb und des H. Baron von , 1794. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 15 pers works, tome i,, pp. 64-66, is a note by Camper himself, re-ferring to Von Wurmbs papers, and continuing thus: — Hereto-fore, this kind of ape had never been known in Europe. Rader-macher has had the kindness to send me the skull of one of theseanimals, which measured fifty-three inches, or four feet five inches,in height. I have
. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. ubt the fact. Eor, appended to thememoir De IOurang-outang, in the collected edition of Cam- * Briefe des Herrn v. Wurmb und des H. Baron von , 1794. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 15 pers works, tome i,, pp. 64-66, is a note by Camper himself, re-ferring to Von Wurmbs papers, and continuing thus: — Hereto-fore, this kind of ape had never been known in Europe. Rader-macher has had the kindness to send me the skull of one of theseanimals, which measured fifty-three inches, or four feet five inches,in height. I have sent some sketches of it to M. Soemmering atMayence, which are better calculated, however, to give an idea ofthe form than of the real size of the parts. These sketches have been reproduced by Fischer and by Lucse,and bear date 1783, Soenunering having received them in either of Von Wurmbs specimens reached Holland, theywould hardly have been unknown at this time to Camper, who,however, goes on to say: — It appears that since this, some more. Fig. 7.—The Pongo Skull, sent by Radermacher to Camper, afterCampers original sketches, as reproduced by Lucse. of these monsters have been captured, for an entire skeleton, verybadly set up, which had been sent to the Museum of the Prince ofOrange, and which I saw only on the 27th of June, 1784, was morethan four feet high. I examined this skeleton again on the 19thDecember, 1785, after it had been excellently put to rights by theingenious Onymus. It appears evident, then, that this skeleton, which is doubtlessthat which has always gone by the name of Wurmbs Pongo, is notthat of the animal described by him, though unquestionably simi-lar in all essential points. Camper proceeds to note some of the most important features ofthis skeleton; promises to describe it in detail by-and-bye; and isevidently in doubt as to the relation of this great Pongo to hispetit Orang. 16 MANS PLACE IN NATURE The promised further investigations
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