Year: 1870

Since the publication of Darwin's views on


the gradual development of new species in


the animal and vegetable world by slow and


long continued changes in species preceding


them, and in consequence of the discussions


to which these views have given RISE great


interest has been felt among scientific men


in the question how far any indication can


be found, in any part of the world, of the ex-


istenoe of links of connection between man


al conclusion among naturaists seems to be


that no such links and no indications of the


existence of any can be found.


The nearest approach of the human to the
animal organization-using the term animal
in the restricted sense in which it is some
times employed as antithetic to human
seems to be in the Andaman Islands, for here
the race of men is of the lowest ahd most de-
graded type; while on the other hand, there
are some species Of ape or monkey occupying
the islands with him that simulate more per-
fectly, perhaps, than any other brute, the
functions of human intelligence. Thus in
these islands the lowest men and the highest
monkeys come into close juXtapositon.


The superiority of the Adaman monkey is
shown strikingly III a recent specimen which
has attracted some attention even among
men of science The case referred to is that
of an Adaman monkey which, or who-for
it is rather difficult to decide which relative
ought to be used-was received not long
since at the Geological Gardens in London
The monkey is female, and her name is
Jenny


Jenny history is somewhat romantic.
She WIS procured at port at the Adaman
Islands by the sailors of the British ship Wig
liant, in 1864


She remained on board the Vigilant for
FOR ~, 4,l>.x.
the Eastern seas and engaged in cooperating
with the Abyssinian army in the famous
campaign for rescuing the English prisoners
from King Theodore. The sailors made
great pet of her, and took quite an interest in
her education. They taught her to smoke
pipe, to draw the cork from soda bottle.
after tlrst carefully untwisting the wire and
then to drink the contents, holding the bottle
by the neck with both hands and lifting up the
bottom of it with her foot to make the CON
tents, run into her mouth. The education
which she thus received was no sham, but
was genuine, for Jenny would really drink
the soda-water and really smoke the pipe, and
not merely make believe. She was also en-
trusted with the charge Of Il chicken which
the sailors had on board for one OF their pets
Jenny took good care Of this chicken in her
cage at night, and often carried ii about III
her arms during the day.


The sailors, moreover, not properly apprc-
ciating, it seems, the Importance of strict
temperance principles for monkeys, taught
Jenny to drink grog, of which she learned to
become immoderatcly fond.


At length, when in due time the ship re-
turned to England, and the company separa-
ted, the sailors gaye Jenny 4 certificate in
due form of having well and faithfully scry-
ed her Majesty during the war, and also dec
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badge of her distinguished merit, and then
consigned her to an honorable retirement in
the Geological Gardens of London where.
as the account from which we gather these
facts states, she is waiting quietly for her
share ofth prize money to be divided among
the crew of the ship when the circumlocu-
ton office shall have completed its labors
Jenny is about two feet four inches high,
has mild and good-natured countenancr,
with no marks of savageness or terocity in
its expression. The character Of her face
was observed to be agreeably affected by her
head-dress, which consists of black mass of
short, but very fine and soft hair, somewhat
IN the form of the letter " and parted in
the middle.


Notwithstanding the gentle, and quiet,
and very innocent expression of Jenny coun-
tenance, she is not always to be trusted in re-
spect to propriety of behavior On one occa-
sion when the distinguished geologist Buck
land was visiting the Garden, and came to
pay his respects to Jenny, with cigar in
his mouth, which he was smoking, she sud
denly seized the cigar, Snatching ii from his
mouth, and began very coolly smoking it
herself. She went on until she had finished
the cigar, and threw the end away in time to
save burning her mouth Editors Scientific
Record, in Halper's Magazine for December