Mammals collected in western Borneo by Dr. W. L. Abbott

Evolution to the extreme: origins of the highly modified apical system in pourtalesiid echinoids

“…Geographical variation in the present sample. Four subspecies of T. javanicus have been described for Borneo: T. kanchil hosei (Bonhote, 1903), from the Baram River, Sarawak; T. virgicollis (Miller, 1903a), from Mt Dulit, Sarawak, but said by the describer to extend to the Kinabantangan River and the Sandakan area in Sabah; T. kanchil klossi (Chasen, 1935b) from Bettotan, Sandakan, east Sabah; and T. kanchil longipes (Lyon, 1908b), described from Sumatra and said by him to extend not only through central east Sumatra but throughout west, south-west, and southeast Borneo. The range that Miller provided in his description of T. virgicollis covers those of T. j. hosei and T. j. klossi.…”

Brief communication: Weights of wild orang utans

“…The only accurate weights for wild orang utans appear to be those of Abbott, as reported by Lyon (1907Lyon ( , 1908Lyon ( , 1911. These were analysed by Eckhardt (19751, who pointed out that a failure to transform avoirdupois to metric in the case of the Bornean specimens had resulted in a spurious disparity in subsequent literature between reported weights of Bornean and Sumatran subspecies ofP.…”

The type specimens and type localities of the orangutans, genusPongoLacépède, 1799 (Primates: Hominidae)

“…Extensive orangutan collections have been made in the Kapuas Valley, West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Selenka 1896;Jentink 1897;Hrdlička 1907;Lyon 1907;Elliot 1913, pp. 183-186; Röhrer-Ertl 1984, tables 1-5, after p. 52).…”