. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. , and brought, as part of her dowry,the skeleton of the Pygmie. Dr. Allardyce presented it to the Chel-tenham Museum, and, through the good offices of my friend Dr. Wright,the authorities of the Museum have permitted me to borrow, what is,perhaps, its most remarkable ornament. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 9 more resembled a Man than Apes and Monkeys do, under forty-seven distinct heads; and then giving, in thirty-four similar briefparagraphs, the respects in which the Ourang-outang or Pygmiedifferd from a man and resembled more
. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. , and brought, as part of her dowry,the skeleton of the Pygmie. Dr. Allardyce presented it to the Chel-tenham Museum, and, through the good offices of my friend Dr. Wright,the authorities of the Museum have permitted me to borrow, what is,perhaps, its most remarkable ornament. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES 9 more resembled a Man than Apes and Monkeys do, under forty-seven distinct heads; and then giving, in thirty-four similar briefparagraphs, the respects in which the Ourang-outang or Pygmiedifferd from a man and resembled more the Ape and Monkeykind. After a careful survey of the literature of the subject extantin his time, our author arrives at the conclusion that his Pyg-mie is identical neither with the Orangs of Tulpius and Bontius,nor with the Quoias Morrou of Dapper (or rather of Tulpius),the Barris of dArcos, nor with the Pongo of Battell; but that itis a species of ape probably identical with the Pygmies of theAncients, and, says Tyson, though it does so much resemble. Fig. 5.—Facsimile of William Smiths figure of the Mandrill, 1744. a Man in many of its parts, more than any of the ape kind, or anyother animal in the world, that I know of: yet by no means doI look upon it as the product of a mixt generation —tis a Brute-Animal sui generis, and a particular species of Ape/ The name of Chimpanzee, by which one of the African Apesis now so well known, appears to have come into use in the firsthalf of the eighteenth century, but the only important additionmade, in that period, to our acquaintance with the man-likeapes of Africa is contained in A ISTew Voyage to Guinea, byWilliam Smith, which bears the date 1744. In describing the animals of Sierra Leone, p. 51, this writersays:— 10 MANS PLACE IN NATURE I shall next describe a strange sort of animal, called by the whitemen in this country Mandrill,* but why it is so called I know not, nordid I ever hear the name before, neither can those wh
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