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monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling objects, the case was hopeless. If he tried by persistent to make such a monkey of the kind, act, it turned sulky.

It is almost superfluous to state that animals have excellent memoriesfor persons & places. A baboon at the Cape of Good Hope, as I am informed by Sir Andrew Smith, recognised him with joy after an absence of nine months. My own I had a dog, who was savage & averse to all strangers, knew me & after an interval of five absence of five years and two days, I purposely tested him. I went to the stable & called in my former usual manner, he showed no joy, but but he showed his recognition not by any joy, but by [illeg]followed going a walk with me when I called him & by obeying me, as if & obeyed me, exactly as if I had parted from him only half-an-hour before. (a) (text) Even ants, as P. Huber *(b) has clearly shown recognised their fellow-ants from the same community after an interval of four months. Animals can certainly A trainer of

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[in another hand:] The Holograph of part of p 45 in the 1871 edition of Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man vol 1 Chap II altered in proof given to the Department of Statistics, University College London by Egon Sharpe Pearson in November 1967