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Rilla Dissected

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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sy was held pon the body . he gorilla whieh died late'jtoii. Professor Franklin '", of the Harvard medical school and Professor Councilman, formerly of Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, now professor of pathology at Harvard, condueted the examination. Consumption was found to hare been the cause of death. The doctors decided that Gumbo was about 40 years old, and that he had had the g-erms of tnbercular consumption of the slow variety, which is a disease the Sinaiadae are particularly subject to in this climate. One discovery was that of a sort of a pouch or h&g in the chest, in front of the lungs, and connected by means of an independent valve with the trachea, or windpipe. This is undoubtedly the organ employed by the illas in making t heir peculiar roar. The brain weighed 17 ounces. In its structure it bears a striking resemblanee to the human brain. being-, however, broader at the base and narrower at the top, and exhibitiner a f ar less number of convolutions. The brain will be subjected to a variety of delicate tests and a minute microscopio scruliny. The doctors found a lot of minor points to interest them. Professor Dexter and his assistants intend to make an exhaustive comparison between the gorilla and a human being. In life Oumbo measured 5 feet 6 inches in heig-ht, and in health, weighed 168 pounds. HÍ3 arms were 4 feet in length, and his muscles of the texture of wire roe.

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Ann Arbor Register