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and method. He knew the importance of study- 

 ing the speech of monkeys in relation to his 

 belief in the descent of man, and expected valu- 

 able results from it. "I wish," he wrote to 

 Asa Gray, " some one would keep a lot of the 

 noisiest monkeys, half free, and study their 

 means of communication." 1 Mr. Garner has 

 recently written magazine articles and a book 

 on the subject, and has even visited the ape 

 country in Africa with elaborate arrangements 

 for studying the speech of monkeys in their 

 native haunts. It is too early to forecast re- 

 sults, but this case illustrates well how different 

 phases of Darwin's theories have attracted dif- 

 ferent types of men, and how caution or the 

 want of it may make or break confidence in the 

 results of their investigations. 



1 Life and Letters, Vol. II. p. 183. 



