Show Believes Monkeys Do Not Know Much IrrtUT HEYER I 1 J ASniNCJTON Instinctive Imltn WASIiINGTONinstinctive nation Is all tho monkey has In terentlal Imitations are not among his nental equipment Physiologically hoB ho-B closely related to the greatest mind Iho world has ever known but that Is where the wise man stops In his hawing of parallels Such are tho conclusions of Prof V T Shepherd of George Washing on university h Ho has had a dozen issortcd monkeys caged In the Inborn ory of the university for months rylng to get from any or all of them what a layman would designate a leant of Intelligence These little copies of the human being wero invited to do dozens of Hunts such as trained animals are taught but the professor made no sffort to compel them to learn them tie simply made conditions such that It they had had any reasoning power hoy would have been able to figure out a way of doing tho desired stunts without any further assistance from him But not one showed what to ho professor would be evidence of the reasoning power Not ono showed apaclty to watch tho professor do a ertaln thing and then do It himself because he liked tho result Not ono of them for Instance was iblo to trip the lever that released a peanut although tho professor showed them often how to do It All however held forth dirty paws begging for tho peanut Not ono even made what the men who study mental phenomena call a trial In error The professor is satisfied that the monkeys have no memory of things In tho sense that they are able to call up a picture place person or thing There Is no question that they are able to recall having seen a person when that person stands before them In other words they are tho equal of any of the domestic animals In that respect Ho can not even subscribe to tho Darwin belief that they have imagination imagina-tion such as Darwin thought dogs have because of tho evidence before him that dogs dream in much the same way that humnn beings do Professor Shepherd did not eni r upon the experiments with a view to establishing a theory or to disprove a theory advanced by another but simply to find out for himself tho mental capacity or want of capacity of the lumenolds available for his experimental ex-perimental work The professor Is convinced that when a monkey scratches his head very much as a man does when he is perplexed It Is no evidence of thought on the part of tho monkey Ills Idea Is that it Is a purely physiological phenomenon perhaps per-haps duo to the similarity of construction construc-tion of a man and a monkey Another thing the professor feels warranted in saying Is that tho monkey mon-key Is not any more Imitative than many other animals Ho shows that monkeys that have had a merrygo round In their cages that revolves when they jump on It will continue to Jump on a contrivance of that kind that Is fastened so that it will not revolve and continue to go through tho motions necessary to make a proper prop-er merrygoround perform Its proper functions Just as If the first trial had produced results |