Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-12
AFTER SIMIAN LINGO.
Garner Expects to Be Able to Converse
With Monkeys.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Prof. r. L. Garner, naturalist and student
Of the language Of monkeys. will sail from
this city today on the Noordland for Liver
pool. whence he will go to Marseilles en-
route for the west coast Of Africa. where
he will make his headquarters at Gaboon
and Cape Lopez. From these places he Will
make his observations Of monkey life, their
speech and habits.
The professor was busy yesterday looking
after his great amount of luggage and see
ing to it's safe disposal on board, the ma
terial for his trip including ton of Iron for
his famous cage in which he sits while
making observations. He also carries with
him one of the most complete and most del
icate Photographic outfits ever manufac-
tured. These machines were made under
the personal direction of Thomas A. Edi-
son, and are provided with special lot Of
diaphragms made particularly for the use
of Prof Garner. They are so sensitive that
they will record the slightest jungle noise,
and with them the naturalist expects to
obtain better results than he has ever at
tained before. 1t is by means of such
mechanisms that he has been enabled to
compare the various monkey articulations
and then formulate them.
DeHeVe, SAID the professor, ''tnat THIS
year will be by all ODDS my most successful
one. for never before have l been so well
equipped with scientific instruments which
will help me in my study. This year, be-
sides making observations on the language
of monkeys, am going to make particu
lar psychological study of the animals with
reference to their ability to determine diff
ferences between forms, colors, sounds etc.
For these purposes I have some very deli
cate instruments, most of them invented
and manufactured by myself.
Some of these work electrically so that
no appreciable amount Of time Is lost be-
tween the monkeys perception of an object
and the recording OF such perception. ex-
pect my discoveries along these lines to be
unique and startling, for 1t Is a new SUBJ
ject, one in which there has been no investl-
cation whatever. After nearly every stay
In the jungle. no matter for how short
time, have something to add to my book
on the subject. I am continually adding
to former publications, tabulating, enumer-
ating. classifying and making alterations.
It fs tremendous undertaking, but one
in which am deeply Interested. and which
am pursuing solely for the sake Of SCI
ence.
The greatest fascination about the work
Is that you never know just when some Inn
portant revelation Is about to be made.
Even when you feel reasonably certain
about some particular experiment, to give
1T any scientific value it must be repeated
again and again. so that every possible re-
suit can be compared with what has been
learned before.
1.-THE natives, whom continually encoun-
ter during my work, are very courteous and
considerable, and do everything to make my
stay among them comfortable. will ar
rive on the west coast at just the time Of
year when the weather Is best for my OBJ
servations and when my work Is least apt
to be interrupted by the great storms which
frequently occur in that part Of the world.
do not know how long will be gone this
time Perhaps several years. It all de-
ponds upon how my work progresses."