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EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE
by Thomas H. Huxley

1863
[entire page is illustration with caption as follows]
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.

ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES
Ancient traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern
investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere dreams: but it is
singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one,
presaging a reality. Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geologist:
the Atlantis was an imagination, but Columbus found a western world:
and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and Satyrs have an existence
only in the realms of art, creatures approaching man more nearly than
they in essential structure, and yet as thoroughly brutal as the goat's or
horse's half of the mythical compound, are now not only known, but
notorious.
I have not met with any notice of one of these MAN-LIKE APES of

earlier date than that contained in Pigafetta's 'Description of the
Kingdom of Congo,'* drawn up from the notes of a Portuguese sailor,
Eduardo Lopez, and published in 1598. The tenth chapter of this work
is entitled "De Animalibus quae in hac provincia reperiuntur," and
contains a brief passage to the effect that "in the Songan country, on the
banks of the Zaire, there are multitudes of apes, which afford great
delight to the nobles by imitating human gestures." As this might apply
to almost any kind of apes, I should have thought little of it, had not the
brothers De Bry, whose engravings illustrate the work, thought fit, in
their eleventh 'Argumentum,' to figure two of these "Simiae magnatum
deliciae." So much of the plate as contains these apes is faithfully
copied in the woodcut (Fig. 1),