(115) Proceed. of the Zoolog. Soc. of London, xiv. 11.
(116) Beiträge zur Anatomie des _Hylobates leuciscus_. From the
Proceedings of the Bavarian Academy of Science, 2nd series, vol. x.
plate iii.
FOOTNOTES.
[2] _Vorträge über Viehzucht und Rassenkenntniss_, i. 61: Berlin, 1872.
[3] Comp. Is. Geoffr. Saint-Hilaire, table v.; also Hartmann, _Der
Gorilla_, p. 14, Anm. 4.
[4] Owen, _Memoir_, etc., plate ii.; Brehm, _Thierleben_, i. 56.
[5] Comp. Hartmann, _Der Gorilla_, fig. 8. This is undoubtedly one
of the most successful illustrations of the chimpanzee, its habits,
expression, and disposition.
[6] Comp. Hartmann, _Der Gorilla_, fig. 27, representing the Hamburg
animal in middle age. Fig. 6 gives the wild Paulina of the German
Loango expedition. The inscription, by an error of the press, states
that it is a male, not a female chimpanzee.
[7] While writing these words I obtained a dried specimen, _Hylobates
lenciscus_ (Kuhl), injected with Wickersheiner’s fluid; a large
_Hylobates_ of the same species, preserved in spirits of wine; another
_Hylobates albimanus_ (Is. Geoffr. Saint-Hilaire), preserved in the
same way; and the skeletons of _Hylobates syndactylus_ (F. Cuvier), and
of _Hylobates agilis_.
[8] A very good illustration of this animal may be seen in Ed.
Poeppig’s _Illustrirter Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs_, vol. i. fig.
24 (Leipzig, 1847), which is taken from some English source with which
I am not acquainted. Another woodcut of this animal is in Bock’s _Unter
den Kannibalen auf Borneo_, p. 342: Jena, 1882.
[9] A specimen of _Hylobates leucogenys_ (Ogilby) may be seen in the
British Museum. Comp. J. E. Gray, Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, etc.:
London, 1870.
[10] A good woodcut of _Hylobates pileatus_ (J. E. Gray) appears in
Huxley’s work, _Man’s Place in Nature_.
[11] A very good coloured illustration of _Hylobates funereus_,
probably taken from life by Werner, may be seen in Is. Geoff.
Saint-Hilaire’s _Description des mammifères nouveaux, ou imparfaitement
connus de la collection du Muséum d’histoire naturelle_. _Archives du
Muséum_, v. 26.
[12] The coronal crest has attained to a quite unusual height in the
fine specimen of the skull of an aged male gorilla, No. 92, in the
Natural History Museum in Paris.
[13] _Ethnologische Schriften, nach dem Tode des Verfassers gesammelt
von dessen Sohne Professor Gustav Retzius_, p. 33: Stockholm, 1864.
[14] _Zur Kenntniss des Orangskopfes_, etc., p. 3. Virchow observes
(_Verhandlungen der Berliner Anthropologischen Gesellschaft_, March
18, 1876): “The fact that the gibbon, as well as the orang-utan, is
brachycephalous is of great geographical interest.”
[15] Monthly report of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, June 7,
1880.
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