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Show 70 SIR HARRY H. JOHNSTON ON THE [May 16, reptiles. And it must be admitted at once that the facts dealt with in the present communication do not conform with any certainty to one view or to the other. On the whole, however, they seem to point to the Lacertilian; since from that type the remaining schemes of encephalic arterial arrangement can be derived, while the extraordinary modification of the basilar artery in Testuclo, found nowhere else, would seem for that very reason to be a divergence from the original condition. 2. On the Nomenclature of the Anthropoid Apes as proposed by the Hon. Walter Rothschild. By Sir H . H. J o h n s t o n , G.C.M.G ., K .C .B .. F .Z .S . [Received May 5 ,1 9 0 5 .] I should like to make a. few remarks on the admirable paper written on this subject by Mr. Walter Rothschild, which has just appeared in the ‘ Proceedings' (1904, vol. ii. p. 413). Unfortunately, I did not know that this paper was going to be read in December 1904, or I should have endeavoured to be present. I am disposed in a general way to agree with Mi-. Rothschild's classification of the great Apes of Africa. I have only one criticism to offer with respect to the nomenclature of the Chimpanzees. (Since Mr. Rothschild has done so much to revise, revive, and establish the nomenclature of these Apes, I should like to see him introduce a more rational spelling into the third of his species of Chimpanzees-the Bald Chimpanzee, which he gives, following Du Chaillu, as Simla koolookamba. Du Chaillu was very inaccurate in his transcription of African words, and he used the cumbrous system of English transliteration which prevailed until the rational spelling was introduced thirty or forty years ago by various scientific societies and departments of the Government. Koolookamba is really two words, which are pronounced nkulu-nkamba, I think that this spelling might stand in preference to Koolookamba [Simia nkulunkamba]. A much more serious point, however, is the generic name which Mr. Rothschild gives to the Orangs-Pongo. Mr. Rothschild is undoubtedly light in reviving Simia as the most appropriate and the earliest name for the Chimpanzee genus, to which it was applied in the first instance by Linnaeus. Linnaeus evidently thought that the differences between the Chimpanzee and the Orang, which animal was later brought to his notice, were not more than specific, so that he included the Orang in the Chimpanzee genus. Much later, in 1799, Lacepede applied the generic name Pongo to the Orangs; and although in the same year the Orang genus was named Satyrus, Mr. Rothschild prefers Pongo to this very appropriate designation, and wishes to establish Pongo as the generic name for the Orangs. I would certainly protest against this. There is much to connect the Satyr of the Classical world and Mediaeval mummeries with traditions of a red-haired man-of- |
