Show tjie' px: tip 94 O' Day — i literlr r m aoaz in e z£Z7ZB£aua tZX fhmlinsJ gNU’tmcnt 'TJNDSii this heading will In pivsonhnl any novel or original views com' :nnm God the Universe 01 Mankind: not binning ourselves to endorse all ' wc iiresent each at their in trinsic value t PROFESSOR OWEN GORILLA ON THE i Prefers or Owen said he rose with great pleasure- to endeavor to respond to the request of Jiis fellow- laborer Lankcstcr knowing however that wljat he had to say would be nothing ne to his zooIf lie were to exlogical friends press what lie felt after the discussions wlri cli had taken place on the resemblances and the differences organically between the anthropoid apes and man it would be somewhat as fpllows Fhst of course it must be borne in inincf that our organical philosophy had long since showulhat man was uq speciality in animal structure but as it were the sum and' crown of the scries of developments lb at veye to be traced from our Ji selves (Jown to the lowest verte-hrate- d series For example taking jthe s(kull of a cod fish one could point out in that head about 95 per cent of the bones in our own beqd aint they were called by the same parses being in the same relative potions and having the same general relation to the nerves and parts the brain "and vessels Well when that could he done in a generally' progressive and increasing degree from the fish 'up to man ilicy saw at 'once what a close general conformity of fundamental type pur body was built out of As wc approached nearer to man that re- - c ' ' ' t The’-gorill- semblance became more and more close and consequently the difference became more atubmore interesting and important' What then were the clficrenccs between the gorilla and the boschman the negro or the lowest in form of our species ? First there was a difference in the innermost digit of the In the gorilla it was lower limb turned’ at a greater or less angle from the other digits and was in fact an opposable digit it was a thumb it was not a toe1 as in man nor parallel with the other toes dt was relatively stronger than the other digits and was associated with a broader foot having the heel it was also ashone flatter below sociated with a different1 relative ‘ position of the joints upon which the leg rested with other modifications to give aboader basis of support to the whole frame Then Jhere wore corrcs pah cling modificathe earn® bones tions of x’ fore having any kind ofjdca in his throughout the vertebral column own mind or any sense of a proof and the ribs" In man a ’greater ora demonstration or an approxinumber of the lumbar vertebrae mation how man originated he was werejeft free and the ribs were limited to twelve pairs there were quite open to any evidence that thirteen in the gorilla Next the might he vouchsafed to us and if in future investigations' we should upper limbs were made in an harmonious kind of proportion to the get a little more satisfactory insight into the origin of our own species lower limbs nor longer dmt somewhat shorter Every joint showed they would most gladly accept it All that knowledge would still as 'it were a perfection of structure leave us just where we are for any The thumb qf the hand was made of those considerations in which we relatively larger and could he apwere supremely interested namely plied more distinctly' as a prehenthat with those higher powers assile organ to each digit' so that it sociated with this glorious frame of became a perfect instrument and ours was coupled what had been organ of free will and rational inrdVealed to u's a responsibility for These differences were telligence the use of it associated with still greater modifi- cations of the skill There were ’ ' htsirni 'Column the same hones and the relative poTt— zrt sition dmt there was an almost head COMPASS of the vs QUALITY expansion in man as compared with the goThere are few more common rilla The brain cavity in man was mistakes among uninstructed singa fine globular part with which we ers then that of attaching undue associated the ideof highest beauty and the Greeks exaggerated it value to extreme compass of voice The basses are fond' of rumbling to show that beauty yet there in the low tones below the staff was a connection between the vast and the sopranos of boasting of head of man and the mere spines thoir 0 or D in all Many a good sticking up in the head of a fish has been injured by neglectvoice the In brain itself (Applause) there was a marked and certainly ing the cultivation of the useful a sudden increase of size in all disinging registers in order to stretch rections which was due chiefly if it to a compass of no musical value whatever' not wholly to one particular part A writer in La France Musicale of the bpain called the cerebral hemreprobates the popular demand for ispheres Professor Owen pointed out other and more’ abstruse differextraordinary achievements of conv He complains that at the ences between the structure of nian pas debut of a new singer the question 'and tire ape which though appais not Uas he taste style feeling ) rently unimportant in themselves but has' he a certain tone ? Will were of the highest significance he reach it Or will he not reach when viewed collectively and in it ? On th is question the betting maintained contrast runs high and the fate of the sing- an erect position with difficulty cr turps and hobbled in an awkward manner rather than walked being obli-ge- d : The writer shows by a reference to musical history that the great to sit down and rest every twencomposers have almost never put ty yards before he could come up the bass voice on the trial of it1? to the attack (Laughter) Yfihat lownotes andlhat the greatwere the other great differences be- est bass singers have rarely boasttwecn man and the ape'?’ There ed of their ability to descend below was first tfie marked difference of the Staff lie censures Meyerbeer This was the one great speech for writing 'the bahs part of Berdistinction between every variety tram in Robert Ic 'Viable for so of ourraec ed all the lower' aid- link with whom there was no near'great a compass as from E flat' below the staff to tI’ sharp above it er approach1 to it than the utterThe part w a s wri t ten for the ex ance of a kind of instinctive cry a traordinarv yoke of Levasseur roar and bellow of rage or i sluiek since whose time no singer has of alarm this watf all that the bccn able to execute it without alhighest apes could dodn the way I ' teration of speech He confessed his entire ' Sonic of the illustrations produce in which mode it of the ignarqnec ed by tlio editor are nt cresting had 4case( our Creator to estabThe wonderfully powerful bass lish our species as if was Haiti “out in Spontini’s of the dllHt of the eaphT Ty what part of the high-prieof1 Leg Vest ale never master-piecmarvellous 'process all that might he accomplished wasymt told to depends Tor1 its Impressiveness op the furcinr of musical femes of rh Without! tWa- liir not not'd it be - I1 ‘ -- : - - e' ' |