Gorillas & Chimpanzees

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R. L. Garner.
Gorillas & Chimpanzees
By R. L. Garner
Illustrated
London Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 45 Albemarle Street, W. 1896
To MY FAITHFUL AND GENEROUS FRIEND MR. ADOLPH STROHM WHO HAS GIVEN ME LIBERAL AID AND UNSWERVING ENCOURAGEMENT AND TO MY KIND AND STEADFAST FRIEND MR. JAMES A. DEEMIN WITH WHOM I SHARED SOME OF THE HARDSHIPS OF TRAVEL AND A FEW OF THE JOYS OF THE HUNT THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR

The present work is the natural product of some years devoted to a study of the speech and habits of monkeys. It has led up to the special study of the great apes. The matter contained herein is chiefly a record of the facts tabulated during recent years in that field of research.
The aim in view is to convey to the casual reader a more correct idea than now prevails concerning the physical, mental, and social habits of these apes.
The favourable conditions under which the writer has been placed, in the study of these animals in the freedom of their native jungle, have not hitherto been enjoyed by any other student of Nature.
A careful aim to avoid all technical terms and scientific phraseology has been adhered to, and the subject treated in a simple style. Tedious details are relieved by an ample supply of anecdotes taken from the writer's own observations, and most of them are the acts of his own pets or of apes in a wild state. The author has refrained from rash deductions and abstruse theories, but has sought to place the animals here treated in their true light, believing that to dignify the apes is not to degrade man, but to exalt him even more.