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Chimpanzees grow mean with age. "An old chimpanzee is a lot like an incorrigible convict in a penitentiary." Dr. Ditmars hopes "that some day our zoos will agree to ship their adult chimpanzees back to Africa and turn them loose in some sanctuary like that now established for the gorilla.* This would limit us to the exhibition of only young specimens, which are highly interesting to adults and always a joy to children...
Only one of them survived the voyage. The first, dressed up and put ashore, was frightened to death by a gorilla. The second, having developed a taste for drink, got drunk and jumped overboard. The third, marooned among strange savages, was married by them to their god. The fourth drowned herself. As colonizing cat's-paws the Negresses were a failure...
After the other aspects of Du Chaillu's discoveries are forgotten and the spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized...
...Land of the Midnight Sun" and the journey to "Russia in 1903 where he died should not be under-emphasized. Vaucaire is careful to show what contemporary prestige his subject gained from his writings, his lectures and especially his winning personal qualities. The act of reading "Paul Du Chaillu: Gorilla Hunter" will not be too great a tribute to one who was once internationally admired and beloved, and not without cause...
Died. Alfred Watterson McCann, 52, pure food expert, author (Starving America, God-or Gorilla, The Science of Keeping Young, et al.);of heart disease, shortly after broadcasting a pure food lecture; in Manhattan...