By Thomas H. Huxley

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1863


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Skeletons of the GIBBON. ORANG. CHIMPANZEE. GORILLA. MAN. 'Photographically reduced from Diagrams of the natural size (except that of the Gibbon, which was twice as large as nature), drawn by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins from specimens in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.


Contents

ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES

FOOTNOTES:


List of Illustrations

Fig. 1.—simiae Magnatum Deliciae.—de Bry, 1598.

Fig 2.—the Orang of Tulpius, 1641.

Figs. 3 and 4.—the 'pygmie' Reduced from Tyson's Figures 1 and 2, 1699.

Fig. 5.—facsimile of William Smith's Figure Of The "mandrill," 1744.

Fig. 6.—the Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus.

Fig. 7.—the Pongo Skull, Sent by Radermacher to Camper, After Camper's Original Sketches, As Reproduced by Lucae.

Fig. 8.—gibbon ('h. Pileatus'), After Wolf.

Fig. 9. An Adult Male Orang-utan, After Muller And Schlegel.

Fig. 10.—the Gorilla (after Wolff).

Fig. 11.—gorilla Walking (after Wolff).


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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