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limns of description to this chimpanzee and 

 a great deal of controversy took place as to 

 whether the chimpanzee could possibly re- 

 cover from his serious illness. 



The majority of the papers decided that he 

 could not and some of them even went so far 

 as to publish notices of his decease with all 

 the details, some of which would have been 

 extremely interesting if they had only been 

 true. There is, I believe, still a doubt as to 

 whether Kruger will long survive this illness 

 but at the present time there seems to be a 

 great deal of hope for it, and he is going 

 on well in every respect. 



Those who have the opportunity of study- 

 ing this animal must make many immensely 

 interesting observations. He is marvelously 

 intelligent, doing things every now and then 

 which appear to tell us that we have as yet 

 found out very little of what it is possible to 

 learn about this most interesting atom in the 

 animal world. 



