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obtained. 11 In 1923-1924 Asia produced 50,000 monkey skins and 

 Africa produced 30,000. 12 Though the accounts of monkeys having 

 been trained and utilized in picking coconuts, fruit and other products 

 and in performing various other services for mankind, have been rid- 

 iculed, they seem to be founded on fact. 13 



"Lang, Natural History, xxrv, 316-317, 1924. Buxton, Journ. Soc. Arts (London), 

 LI, 576. 



12 Innis, The fur trade of Canada, table opp. p. 76, 1927. 



"LaRue, Monkeys as coconut pickers, Science, L, 187, 1919. Gudger, On mon- 

 keys trained to pick coconuts, Science, XLIX, 146-147, 1919; Monkeys trained as har- 

 vesters : Instances of a practice extending from remote times to the present, Natural 

 History, xxm, 273-279, 1923, citing various books by Shelford, Weber- Van Boss, 

 Beccari, Bird, Fortune, Osbeck, Tyson, Dapper, Gassendi, Acosta and others. 



