In this note they frankly admitted the justice of the criticisms of M.
Gratiolet, quoted above, and they illustrated, by new and careful
figures, the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the hippocampus
minor of the Orang. Furthermore, having demonstrated the parts, at one
of the sittings of the Academy, they add, "la presence des parties
contestees y a ete universellement reconnue par les anatomistes
presents a la seance. Le seul doute qui soit reste se rapporte au pes
Hippocampi minor.... A l'etat frais l'indice du petit pied d'Hippocampe
etait plus prononce que maintenant."
Professor Owen repeated his erroneous assertions at the meeting of the
British Association in 1861, and again, without any obvious necessity,
and without adducing a single new fact or new argument, or being able
in any way to meet the crushing evidence from original dissections of
numerous Apes' brains, which had in the meanwhile been brought forward
by Prof. Rolleston,* F.R.S., Mr. Marshall,** F.R.S., Mr. Flower,*** Mr.
Turner,**** and myself,***** revived the subject at the Cambridge
meeting of the same body in 1862.
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