on, and
gives space for the attachment of the very large muscles which help
man to assume and support that attitude. In the gorilla this region
differs considerably from that in man. The haunch-bones are narrower
and much shallower, so that they do not form so convenient a
supporting basin; they have much less surface for the attachment of
muscles. The gibbon, however, differs more vastly from the gorilla
than that differs from man. The haunch-bones are flat and narrow, and
totally devoid of any basin-like formation; the passage through the
pelvis is long and narrow, and the ischia have outwardly curved
prominences, which, in life, are coated by callosities on which the
animal habitually rests, and which are coarse, corn-like patches of
skin wholly absent in the gorilla, in the chimpanzee, in the orang,
and in man.

In the characters of the hands, the feet, and the brain, certain real
or supposed structural distinctions between man and the apes had been
relied upon.

"Man has been defined as the only animal possessed of two hands
terminating his fore-limbs, and of two feet terminating his
hind-limbs, while it has been said that all the apes possess four
hands; and he has been affirmed to differ fundamentally from all
the apes in the characters of his brain, which alone, it has been
strangely asserted and reasserted, exhibits the structures known
to anatomists as the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu of the
lateral ventricle, and the hippocampus minor.

"That the former proposition should have gained general
acceptance is not surprising--indeed, at first sight, appearances
are much in its favour; but, as for the second, one can only
admire the surpassing courage of its enunciator, seeing that it
is an innovation which is not only opposed to generally and
justly accepted doctrines, but which is directly negatived by the
testimony of all original enquirers who have specially
investigated the matter; and that it has neither been, nor can
be, supported by a single anatomical preparation. It would, in
fact, be unworthy of serious refutation except for the general
and natural belief that deliberate and reiterated assertions must
have some foundation."

The last remarks referred, of course, to the statements of Owen, which
had made a great impression at the time and the result of which still
lingers in some of the worse-