﻿JULY 
  19, 
  1922 
  proceedings: 
  BIOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  313 
  

  

  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  ACADEMY 
  AND 
  AFFILIATED 
  

  

  SOCIETIES 
  

  

  BIOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  

   635th 
  meeting 
  

  

  The 
  635th 
  meeting 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Cosmos 
  Club 
  on 
  Feb. 
  18, 
  1922, 
  with 
  

   Vice 
  President 
  OberholsER 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  101 
  persons 
  present. 
  The 
  

   program 
  was 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Robert 
  M. 
  Yerkes: 
  The 
  behavior 
  of 
  monkeys 
  and 
  apes. 
  

  

  The 
  speaker 
  had 
  spent 
  much 
  of 
  a 
  sabbatical 
  year 
  in 
  CaHfornia 
  where 
  he 
  

   had 
  opportunities 
  to 
  study 
  several 
  species 
  of 
  monkeys 
  and 
  one 
  young 
  orang 
  

   about 
  five 
  years 
  old. 
  He 
  devoted 
  much 
  time 
  to 
  testing 
  the 
  intelligence 
  of 
  the 
  

   latter 
  and 
  two 
  individuals 
  of 
  different 
  species 
  of 
  monkeys, 
  also 
  making 
  ob- 
  

   servations 
  of 
  other 
  individuals 
  and 
  species. 
  Apparatus 
  was 
  constructed 
  in 
  

   such 
  a 
  way 
  that 
  the 
  animal 
  entering 
  a 
  room 
  was 
  confronted 
  with 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  

   doors, 
  on 
  entering 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  would 
  obtain 
  food. 
  Part 
  of 
  the 
  doors 
  

   being 
  open 
  and 
  part 
  closed, 
  it 
  was 
  possible 
  to 
  establish 
  a 
  certain 
  relation 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  the 
  open 
  doors 
  and 
  the 
  right 
  one, 
  or 
  the 
  one 
  leading 
  to 
  the 
  food. 
  The 
  

   problem 
  was 
  to 
  see 
  if 
  the 
  animal 
  in 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  trials 
  would 
  come 
  to 
  

   perceive 
  the 
  relation, 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  go 
  at 
  once 
  to 
  the 
  right 
  door. 
  Although 
  the 
  mon- 
  

   keys 
  solved 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  problems 
  in 
  less 
  time 
  than 
  the 
  orang, 
  the 
  speaker 
  

   thought 
  that 
  the 
  latter 
  showed 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  manner 
  of 
  investigation. 
  

   A 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  lantern 
  slides 
  made 
  the 
  method 
  clear 
  and 
  furnished 
  many 
  

   illuminating 
  and 
  some 
  very 
  amusing 
  glimpses 
  of 
  the 
  animals 
  involved. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  T. 
  S. 
  Palmer 
  in 
  discussing 
  the 
  paper 
  pointed 
  out 
  the 
  prime 
  importance 
  

   of 
  a 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  previous 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  monkey 
  under 
  study, 
  as 
  by 
  cruel 
  

   treatment 
  they 
  may 
  become 
  totally 
  changed 
  in 
  disposition. 
  The 
  whole 
  

   bringing 
  up 
  of 
  the 
  animal 
  is 
  involved, 
  if 
  any 
  normal 
  plane 
  of 
  intelligence 
  is 
  to 
  

   be 
  demonstrated. 
  

  

  Under 
  Short 
  notes, 
  Dr. 
  BarTSCH 
  mentioned 
  that 
  for 
  five 
  weeks 
  he 
  has 
  had 
  

   as 
  a 
  visitor 
  to 
  his 
  feeding 
  pan 
  a 
  Brazilian 
  cardinal. 
  Where 
  it 
  came 
  from 
  is 
  

   unknown. 
  Among 
  other 
  birds 
  that 
  he 
  is 
  feeding 
  he 
  mentioned 
  about 
  350 
  

   starlings. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Palmer 
  showed 
  a 
  check 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  Africa, 
  lately 
  completed, 
  

   and 
  spoke 
  of 
  a 
  cooperative 
  plan 
  by 
  which 
  similar 
  lists 
  for 
  other 
  world 
  regions 
  

   are 
  being 
  completed. 
  

  

  636th 
  meeting 
  

  

  The 
  636th 
  meeting 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Cosmos 
  Club 
  on 
  March 
  4, 
  1922, 
  with 
  

   President 
  Vernon 
  Bailey 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  64 
  persons 
  present. 
  Laurence 
  

   M. 
  HuEY, 
  of 
  San 
  Diego, 
  Cal., 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Under 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Short 
  notes, 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  S. 
  Palmer 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  Na- 
  

   tional 
  Audubon 
  Society 
  has 
  lately 
  received 
  a 
  gift 
  of 
  $200,000 
  for 
  endowment, 
  

   making 
  the 
  total 
  endowment 
  $600,000 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time. 
  He 
  also 
  called 
  

   attention 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  governor 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey 
  has 
  lately 
  declared 
  the 
  

   bobolink 
  a 
  non-insectivorous 
  bird 
  ; 
  this 
  reminded 
  the 
  speaker 
  that 
  in 
  earlier 
  

   times 
  the 
  quail 
  was 
  officially 
  classified 
  in 
  Ohio 
  as 
  a 
  song-bird 
  and 
  in 
  South 
  

   Carolina 
  the 
  bat 
  was 
  determined 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  migratory 
  bird. 
  

  

  He 
  also 
  read 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  W. 
  B. 
  Alexander, 
  an 
  Australian 
  ornithologist. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Howard 
  told 
  of 
  the 
  9th 
  annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Jersey 
  Mosquito 
  

  

  