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opposite direction, only altering his course when he believed that 
he was no longer observed. He then went straight to the room 
and cupboard, opened it, and made a quick and dexterous snatch 
at the sugar-box or fruit-basket, sometimes closing the cupboard 
doors behind him before beginning to enjoy his plunder, or, if he 
was discovered, he would escape with it, and his whole behavior 
made it clear that he was conscious of transgressing into forbid- 
den paths. He took a special, and what might be called a child- 
ish pleasure in making a noise by beating on hollow articles, and 
he seldom omitted an opportunity of drumming on casks, dishes 
or tin trays, whenever he passed by them—a noisy amusement to 
which he was much addicted during our homeward voyage on 
board the steam-vessel, in which he was at liberty to roam about. 
“ Mafuca, for a while, was pleased with the companionship of a 
pretty sea-cat monkey, but she teased the creature so much that 
a special refuge was set apart for it, into which she could not en- 
ter. She was so scared and terrified by a heavy thunder-storm 
that she seized her sleeping playfellow by the tail and dashed it to 
the ground. She chased the mice which ran about the cage with 
deadly fury. She was much afraid of snakes, which is not usually 
the case with chimpanzees. If she was left alone any time she tried 
to open the lock of her cage without having the key, and she 
Once succeeded in doing so. On that occasion she stole the 
key which was hanging on the wall, hid it in her axilla and crept 
quietly back to the cage. With the key she easily opened the 
ock, and she also knew how to use a gimlet. She would draw 
off her keeper’s boots, scramble up to some place out of reach 
With them, and throw them at his head when he asked for them. 
She could wring out wet clothes and blow her nose with a hand- 
kerchief. When her illness began, she became apathetic, and 
ooked about with a vacant, unobservant stare. Just before her 
death, from consumption, she put her arms round Schopf’s neck 
when he came to visit her, looked at him placidly, kissed him 
three times, stretched out her hand to him, and died. The last 
moments of anthropoids have their tragic side.” 
Dr. Prever’s Criticism or TELEPATHY.—Professor Preyer, of 
Jena, well known through his researches into hypnotism, the de- 
opment of the infant mind, etc., does not believe in telepathy, ` 
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ng attempts in a twenty-page article to give the readers of the 
January Rundschau the reasons for his skepticism. His criticisms 
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€ very outset that a strictly scientific spirit cannot be rc 
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