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Show YOUNG W0F1HN TO STUDY LANGUAGE AND fISNNERS OP APES RND MONKEYS ) - NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Miss Ida Vera Simonton of Pittsburg will sail next week for Africa, where ahe will join Prof. E. L. Garner, and with him go into the remotest corner of the Congo Con-go to study the monkey, Its wav, mnn- . ... ners and speech and means of communication. communi-cation. , Miss Simonton has' been for months an enthusiastic student of the ape aud monkey tribe. She and the professor expect to get a working knowledge of Simian "speech" before they leave the Congo. Each will have constructed a steel cage in which they will live and study I the tribe. Announcement that Miss 8i-inonton 8i-inonton was to go was mad-j last night by Dr. Beed Blair, surgeon of the New ; York Zoological park in the Bronx. The directors of the park beliove Prof. Garner and Miss Simonton will be able to ;tbrow more light on the monkey. Prof. Garner has also been studying the ape. He said recently that he hoped to acquire the Janguago in a abort time. |