On the cerebral characters of man and the ape / by Richard Owen.
- Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.
- Date:
- 1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the cerebral characters of man and the ape / by Richard Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for THE CEREBRAL CHARACTERS OF MAN AND THE APE. BY Prof. RICHARD OWEN. [Plates XIX. XX. XXL] To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural Uistonj. Gentlemen, It may be acceptable to those who desire to know the facts of the observed differences between the structure of the brain in the lowest race of Man and in the highest race of Ape to be able to compare the figures of the parts as seen and delineated by Tiederaann*, Vrolik, and Schroeder van der Kolkf, at a period before the authors of ^Vestiges of Creation ’ and ‘ Natural Selec- tion^ had revived the question of the transmutation of species, and by anatomists investigating and recording the facts without reference to, or apparently a thought of, the question whether Man be or be not a descendant of the Ape. I therefore send exact copies of the figures of the smallest Negro’s hrain, figured by Tiedemann in the ^ Philosophical Trans- actions ’ for 1836, and of the brain of the Chimpanzee, figured by the Dutch anatomists in the Transactions of the Royal * “ On the Brain of the Negro compared with that of the European and the Orang utan,” Phil. Trans. 1836. t “ Ontleedkundige nasparingen over de gedaante en het Maaksel der Hersenen van den Chimpanse.” Nieuwe Verhandlingen der erste Klasse van het Koningl. Nederlandsche Instituut, &c. Amsterd. 4to.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22460081_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
