Part of the International Scientific Series, this study by a Berlin anatomist begins with how Europeans first learned of the great apes, from Hanno’s Carthaginian voyage onward. It goes on to describe their external form and anatomy, varieties, geographical range and habits in the wild, their life in captivity, and their place in the zoological system relative to humans.
A detailed period work of natural history whose science and assumptions belong to the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.