Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-14

which has tail and run. key of higher intelligence,
chou. on oil foura like with tendency to stand
other quadrupeds. its hind feet
X TANY interesting and panstakins experiments
WI have been and being conducted by
%S@ serious scientists tending to prove that the
anthropoid ape be trained into useful laborer
Professor Robert NJ Yerkes, professor OF psychol
ogy at Harvard University, has. for instance watched
the orangutan to find out whether this could
son things out all by himself The professor him
pile three boxes top of another when this
the only way OF reaching banana. Concerning this
ape the Harvard professor makes this significant re-
mark:
1.-THE oraneutan 10 capable Of expressing free ideas
IN considerable number and Of using them In ways
highly indicative Of thought processes, possibly even
Of the rational order"
The great object Of all research work on apes is
perhaps best expressed by DR.. Jules Goldschmdt of
the Paseur Institute Paris, III this phrase:
ITO increase or essentially modify the anthropofd
brain to such degree that it will approach mans
srain as developed among the lower human races"
The most remarkable facts in actually training
ape to work have been accomplished By Dr.. William
H. Furness 3d. Of Philadelphia He has taught
chimpanzee to shovel coal like irstclass fireman
and read the alphabet. DR.. Furness is physician
aud distinguished anthropologist and was formerly
curator Of the University Of Pennsylvania Museum OF
Science. He is Of DR.. Horace Howard Furness
the Shakespearean scholar. 1t is only proper to say
that Dr.. Furness, while ascribng great ceverness to
the apes does not 60 as far Professor Yerkes in
credng them with man.like mentality.
DR.. Furness has abored for six years with pleas.
ant hammered female chimpanzee named Mimi, whom
he secured when she year old at Liverpool,
England shortly after she had been captured In Africa
the start the animal patient and gentle and
DR. Furness started series OF experiments to esab-
lish whether not Mimi could be classed as possess
Ing brain power. 1t was not long before Mimi began
to understand and remember spoken words. But for
efforts to teach her to say word were unavail-
Ing She able TO articulate certain sounds,
pressing
state the chimpanzees are probably able to communi-
cate with each other by these sounds But neither
the tongue nor the lips were used in uttering sounds
After repeated efforts which lasted over six months.
discouraged" said the doctor, when Unexpectedly
Mimi uttered sound which recognized as Papa
Then" said the doctor with smile, 81 knew she
meant After had frequently repeated the word
she again uttered It, and since then has been able to
say Papa at will
cup To teach her to enunciate cup, the doctors
method consisted in holding her tongue fiat with
his efforts for months. but finally success. CUP
she repeat freely. Once while sick and nestled in
soup" she repeats with but little effort while to say
=. Ups
Or. Furness states that Mimi seems to understand
~ha Is said to her and realize the connection OF
spoken words with objects and actions Her memory
Is remarkable. Some time ago he lectured before
OF the classes at the University OF Pennsylvania He
accompanied by Mimi. Squatted la chair on the
platform the animal critically surveyed the audience
which numbered some 40. In group OF five who
entered later was physician and nurse who had
attended Mint during attack of pneumonia. Catch
ing sight OF the doctor he entered Mimi
jumped from her chair and, rushing to the physician
threw her around his neck and greeted him very
afectionately
Through memory Mimi has been taught the letters
able to arrange them in the proper order one after
the other Owing to the similarity OF to H. G to c.
correctly and apparently does not recognize at
ell. But when the letters drawn the blackboard
with chalk, Mimi unable to distinguish one from
the other,