. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. by Buffon seems hardly a probableone. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 11 entitled (from left to riglit) 1. Troglodyta Bontii; 2. LuciferAldrovandi; 3. Satyrus Tulpii; 4. Pygmceus Edwardi. The firstis a bad copy of Bontius fictitious Ourang-outang/ in whoseexistence, however, Linnaeus appears to have fully believed; for inthe standard edition of the Systema Naturae, it is enumeratedas a second species of Homo; H. nocturnus. Lucifer Aldro-vandi is a copy of a figure in Aldrovandus, De Quadrupedibusdigitatis viviparis, Lib. 2, p. 249
. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. by Buffon seems hardly a probableone. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 11 entitled (from left to riglit) 1. Troglodyta Bontii; 2. LuciferAldrovandi; 3. Satyrus Tulpii; 4. Pygmceus Edwardi. The firstis a bad copy of Bontius fictitious Ourang-outang/ in whoseexistence, however, Linnaeus appears to have fully believed; for inthe standard edition of the Systema Naturae, it is enumeratedas a second species of Homo; H. nocturnus. Lucifer Aldro-vandi is a copy of a figure in Aldrovandus, De Quadrupedibusdigitatis viviparis, Lib. 2, p. 249 (1645) entitled Cercopithecusformse rarae Barhilius vocatus^et originem a china ducebat. Hop-pius is of opinion that this may be one of that cat-tailed people,of whom Nicolaus Koping affirms that they eat a boats crew, gubernator navis and all! In the Systema Naturae Linnseuscalls it in a note Homo caudatus, and seems inclined to regard itas a third species of man. According to Temminck, SatyrusTulpii is a copy of the figure of a Chimpanzee published by. Fig. 6.—The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus. Scotin in 1738, which I have not seen. It is the Saiyrus indicusof the Systema Naturae, and is regarded by Linnaeus as possiblya distinct species from Satyrus sylvestris. The last, named Pyg-mceus Edwardi, is copied from the figure of a young Man of theWoods, or true Orang-Utan, given in Edwards Gleanings ofNatural History (1758). Buffon was more fortunate than his great rival. Not onlyhad he the rare opportunity of examining a young Chimpanzeein the living state, but he became possessed of an adult Asiaticman-like Ape — the first and the last adult specimen of anyof these animals brought to Europe for many years. With thevaluable assistance of Daubenton, Buffon gave an excellent de- 12 MANS PLACE IN NATURE scription of this creature, whicli, from its singular proportions,lie termed the long-armed Ape, or Gibbon. It is the modernHylohates lar. Thus when, in 1Y66, Buffon wrote the fou
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