articulateness and originality of which I speak from some
experiments which I made with the monkeys at Belle Vue.

My principal dealings were with two monkeys. One was the
little Rhesus Jimmy, which has already been mentioned more than
once, and which came to stay with me for several days. Jimmy
was not altogether a hopeful subject for experiments. His
attention was terribly dissipated. In the monkey house, every
noise distracted him, and he would break off in the middle of a
most promising experiment to run backwards and forwards in his
cage, in sympathy with the monkeys in the large cage opposite. He
seldom appeared to be hungry; but I found at last that he would
do almost anything for a baked potato. After that discovery, we
got on better. ¹ Nor can I praise Jimmy's temper. I have
already mentioned that he flew at all women and children; and
though he tolerated me, and would climb about me as if I were a
piece of furniture, he never showed a trace of affection. In my
house, I found that his chief passion was for the fire. He would
sit on the edge of the fender, or stand on his hind legs, close to the
high, old-fashioned grate, with scarcely two inches between his
chest and the flames. But though I once noticed him touch a
bar, and draw his hand quickly away, he never burnt himself with
the hot cinders. The black cinders he ate freely, and packed his
check pouches with them.

The other monkey of which I saw most was the chimpanzee,
which for reasons of my own I called the Professor. The diffi-
culty with the Professor is his extremely retiring and unsociable
disposition. No one can approach him with whom he is not quite
familiar; and after an acquaintance of two months, he will only
take a banana from my hand at arm's length, amid great trepi-
dation. It is therefore very difficult to show the Professor any-
thing. When, for instance, I tried to instruct him in the push
bolt, I had always to leave the box in the cage, and retire myself,
before he would come near it.

2. When I first saw the Professor, he had already elab-
orated a somewhat remarkable performance. He lives
for warmth in a cage enclosed within a larger cage or
house. Passers by threw nuts and other gratifying objects

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