scription and figure testify, was, without doubt, a Chimpanzee.
Linnæus knew nothing, of his own observation, of the man-like Apes of either Africa or Asia, but a dissertation by his pupil Hoppius in the "Amœnitates Academicæ" (VI. 'Anthropomorpha') may be regarded as embodying his views respecting these animals.
Fig. 6.—The Anthropomorpha of Linnæus.
The dissertation is illustrated by a plate, of which the accompanying woodcut, fig. 6, is a reduced copy. The figures are entitled (from left to right) 1. Troglodyta Bontii; 2. Lucifer Aldrovandi; 3. Satyrus Tulpii; 4. Pygmæus Edwardi. The first is a bad copy of Bontius' fictitious 'Ourang-outang,' in whose existence, however, Linnæus appears to have fully believed; for in the standard edition of the "Systema Naturæ," it is enumerated as a second species of Homo; "H. nocturnus." Lucifer Aldrovandi is a copy of a figure in Aldrovandus, 'De Quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis,' Lib. 2, p. 249 (1645) entitled "Cercopithecus formæ raræ Barbilius vocatus et
