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From this time forth, the untenability of his position might have been
as apparent to Professor Owen as it was to every one else; but, so far
from retracting the grave errors into which he had fallen, Professor
Owen has persisted in and reiterated them; first, in a lecture
delivered before the Royal Institution on the 19th of March, 1861,
which is admitted to have been accurately reproduced in the 'Athenaeum'
for the 23rd of the same month, in a letter addressed by Professor Owen
to that journal on the 30th of March. The 'Athenaeum report was
accompanied by a diagram purporting to represent a Gorilla's brain, but
in reality so extraordinary a misrepresentation, that Professor Owen
substantially, though not explicitly, withdraws it in the letter in
question. In amending this error, however, Professor Owen fell into
another of much graver import, as his communication concludes with the
following paragraph: "For the true proportion in which the cerebrum
covers the cerebellum in the highest Apes, reference should be made to
the figure of the undissected brain of the Chimpanzee in my 'Reade's
Lecture on the Classification, etc.
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