AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



black, extremely African negress as nurse- 

 maid, the chimpanzee was so animatedly 

 friendly to this dear old mammy from the 

 very first moment of her entrance that 

 she soon fled, screaming with horror and 

 fright. I shall never forget the strong 

 impression made on me of the chimpan- 

 zee's immediate apparent recognition of 

 Matilda as an old acquaintance; she was 

 the kind of human being he knew about 

 and was interested in. Yet as he had been 

 brought to the Gardens as a baby and 

 had had really no personal acquaintance- 

 ship with negroes, if he really knew Ma- 

 tilda or had some sense of relationship 

 with her, it must have been a case of 

 biological memory. 



However, the biologist does not claim 

 that we are directly descended from the 

 chimpanzee or any other particular an- 

 thropoid or particular lower kind of 

 monkey that we know, either living or 

 extinct. Some biologists favor an origin 

 from a generalized Lemurine type, others 

 from a Tarsius type, and others venture 

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