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consulting-room during the greater part of the day, and sleeps 
in a hutch in the adjoining surgery. 
This animal has all the affedtion and gentleness of a lap-dog. 
He sits on his master’s lap or shoulder, and cries pitifully if 
driven off and when the dodtor goes out. He is similarly at- 
tached, though less strongly, to all the other members of the 
family, excepting the baby, which, when nursed and fondled, 
becomes an objedt of jealousy. One favourite mode of displaying 
affedtion is to rest his face in the hand, and look up to the eyes 
of the objedt of his love, with a ridiculously sentimental spoony- 
ish expression. 
I need not describe his tricks and other indications of intelli- 
gence, but name the above to show that there is no difficulty in 
obtaining monkeys that may safely be allowed the range of suit- 
able places of public resort ; that a monkey-house might be spe- 
cially built and furnished with suitable growing trees in such a 
place as the Zoological Gardens, the Crystal Palace, or the pro- 
jedted Winter Garden at Brighton, and kept warm by stove-heat 
during winter ; and that such a house might be stocked with a 
moderate number of pairs of gentle monkeys, where, having the 
opportunities of exercise suited to their natural organisation and 
habits, they would have a fair chance of propagation such as the 
present caging must tend to suppress, especially in animals of 
their extreme sprightliness and adtivity. 
It would probably pay from a “ show bisniss ” point of view, 
as the unfettered gambols and “ flying trapeze ” exploits of these 
nimble and grotesque creatures would be very amusing, and the 
interest attached to their possible progeny would render the cer- 
tified babies very valuable. — I am, &c., 
W. Mattieu Williams. 
JOHN BUNYAN AND THE GIPSIES. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
Sir, — With reference to what appeared in your issue for January 
I beg to say that I sent the two pamphlets on John Bunyan and 
the Gipsies to the “Journal of Science ” for the reason that I 
believed it specially came within its sphere as that of a scientific 
journal. The Gipsy question, in its essential meaning, is, I 
think, one of pure Science, and, as I wrote in 1865, “furnishes, 
among other things, a system of Science not too abstradt in its 
nature, and having for its subjedb-matter the strongest of human 
feelings and sympathies.” My grounds, among others, for 
saying so are the following : — 
