42 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 
apart, from the rest of the animal creation. The 
achievements of the nineteenth century are great; so 
also is its conceit. 
The study of the apes and monkeys, on account of 
undoubted physical and mental resemblances to man, 
is naturally of the greatest interest. Accordingly, a 
communication from Mr Clement on a monkey he had 
kept under observation was welcomed by the Associa- 
tion. This creature’s curiosity, observing powers, 
retentiveness of memory, and confidence in his owner, 
in contrast with a shyness towards strangers, were 
pronounced. His power of imitation, it was thought, 
had much to do with his mental progress. The 
superiority of this monkey, as in other cases, was 
evidenced by his capacity for education. As Mr 
Clement well observed, there was much in the crea- 
ture’s behaviour that suggested the child. The Presi- 
dent had, in the case of this individual, verified 
Darwin’s statement that monkeys have an instinctive 
fear of snakes. When this animal was offered a dead 
snake in a paper bag, he cautiously peeped in and then 
ran away in terror, nor could he be induced to go near 
the bag again. I may mention, incidentally, that there 
is now, in Central Park Menagerie, New York, a 
remarkable chimpanzee, of an intelligent expression of 
countenance so human-like as to be positively startling. 
If now he could but stumble on speech, what then ? 
It seems not unlikely that the superiority of the 
monkey’s brain over that of other animals may be 
owing in part to the use of the fore-limb as a hand. 
It has even been suggested that the greater brain- 
weight of man, compared with that of woman, may, in 
part, be the result of his more pronounced muscular 
development. 
We have endeavoured to throw some light upon the 
question as to whether any animals have a special 
