The brain as an organ of mind . erebellumthan they are in the human Brain. They, however,slightly overlapped the Cerebellum, and this organ wasflatter and wider than it is in Man. Looked at from above (fig. 115) the Chimpanzeesbrain has a short, wide, ovoid form, though in the lowerraces of Man it has a long, ovoid outline. Seen in profile, * I^at. History Eeview, 1861, p. 201. t That of an adult female, examined by Gratiolet, in 1860. J Etude sur le Cerveau du Gorille, Revue dAnthropologie^1878. § This was examined by Drs. Bolau and Pansch, and theiraccount was made the subject of some intere
The brain as an organ of mind . erebellumthan they are in the human Brain. They, however,slightly overlapped the Cerebellum, and this organ wasflatter and wider than it is in Man. Looked at from above (fig. 115) the Chimpanzeesbrain has a short, wide, ovoid form, though in the lowerraces of Man it has a long, ovoid outline. Seen in profile, * I^at. History Eeview, 1861, p. 201. t That of an adult female, examined by Gratiolet, in 1860. J Etude sur le Cerveau du Gorille, Revue dAnthropologie^1878. § This was examined by Drs. Bolau and Pansch, and theiraccount was made the subject of some interesting comments byProf. G. D. Thane ( Nature, December 14, 1876). 296 THE BRAIN OF QUADRUMANA. the Frontal Lobes are short and shallow, though as a wholeits upper outline is decidedly convex. The lower andhinder boundary of the Cerebral Hemisphere, Avhen com-pared with the correspondinfij region in Man, is notable forits concavity and slanting direction from behind is due to the marked shallowness of the Occipital. Fig. 115.—Brain of the Chimpanzee, nrpor aspect, with upper part of Rij^htHemisphere cut away so as to expose Lateral Ventricle. (Vogt, after Marshall.)Letters of reference for Left Hemisphere similar to those of fig. 110. c s, Oorp\isStriatum, id the anterior conm of the Ventricle ; c a. Hippocampus Major, in the desceiiding conm ; // ;/(, Hippocanipiis Minor, in the i) cornu. Lobes in the Chimpanzee—these divisions of the Brainbeing wide but not deep. The same peculiarity is to b^seen in the brain of the Orang (fig. 121). The Frontal Lobes in the Orang have a recurved beak-like termination (seen also in fig. 121); and if we turn the Chap. XVII.] THE BRAIN OF QUADRUMANA. 297 organ over so as to examine its base, the orbital or undersurface of these lobes is found to be distinctly concave, as itis in most of the larger Monkeys and Apes. Just behindthese parts, the lower terminations of the two Temporal c.^.
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