Thomas S. Savage

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Thomas Staughton Savage (1804-1880) was an American protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist.

In 1836 Savage was sent as a missionary to Liberia. During his time in Africa he acquired the skull and other bones from an unknown ape species, which he described in 1847 with Jeffries Wyman with the scientific name Troglodytes gorilla, now known as the Western Gorilla.

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