, of the Mammalia', p. 25, fig. 7, 8
vo. 1859."
It would not be credible, if it were not unfortunately true, that this
figure, to which the trusting public is referred, without a word of
qualification, "for the true proportion in which the cerebrum covers
the cerebellum in the highest Apes," is exactly that unacknowledged copy
of Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik's figure whose utter inaccuracy
had been pointed out years before by Gratiolet, and had been brought to
Professor Owen's knowledge by myself in the passage of my article in
the 'Natural History Review' above quoted.
I drew public attention to this circumstance again in my reply to
Professor Owen, published in the 'Athenaeum' for April 13th, 1861; but
the exploded figure was reproduced once more by Professor Owen, without
the slightest allusion to its inaccuracy, in the 'Annals of Natural
History' for June 1861!
This proved too much for the patience of the original authors of the
figure, Messrs. Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik, who, in a note
addressed to the Academy of Amsterdam, of which they were members,
declared themselves to be, though decided opponents of all forms of the
doctrine of progressive development, above all things, lovers of truth:
and that, therefore, at whatever risk of seeming to lend support to
views which they disliked, they felt it their duty to take the first
opportunity of publicly repudiating Professor Owen's misuse of their
authority.
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