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"Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882"

"[2] The concluding memoir, relating more especially to points
of approximation in cranial and denial structure of the highest
_Quadrumane_ to the lowest _Bimane_, has been separately published.
[Footnote 2: "Oseteological Contributions to the Natural History
of the Orangs (_Pithecus_) and Chimpanzees (_Troglodites niger_
and _Trog. gorilla_)."]
I selected from the large and instructive series of human skulls of
various races in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons that which
was the lowest, and might be called most bestial, in its cranial and
dental characters. It was from an adult of that human family of which
the life-characters are chiefly but truly and suggestively defined in
the narrative of Cook's first voyage in the Endeavor.[3]
[Footnote 3: Hawkesworth's 4th ed., vol. iii., 1770, pp. 86,
137, 229. The skull in question is No 5,394 of the "Catalogue of
the Osteology" in the above Museum, 4to, vol. ii, p. 823, 1853.]
Not to trespass further on the patience of my readers, I may refer to
the "Memoir on the Gorilla," 4to, 1865. Plate xii. gives a view, natural
size, of the vertical and longitudinal section of an Australian skull;
plate xi. gives a similar view of the skull of the gorilla. Reduced
copies of these views may be found at p. 572, figs. 395, 396, vol. ii,
of my "Anatomy of Vertebrates."
As far as my experience has reached, there is no skull displaying the
characters of a quadrumanous species, as that series descends from the
gorilla and chimpanzee to the baboon, which exhibits differences, osteal
or dental, on which specific and generic distinctions are founded, so
great, so marked, as are to be seen, and have been above illustrated, in
the comparison of the highest ape with the lowest man.


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