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This work displays great research, aided and directed by much preparatory knowledge, and a sound judgment and good taste. Hobhouse's Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey, to Constantinople, in 1809-10. 4to. 1813. Classical, antiquarian, and statistical, with sketches of manners, national character, &c.
I have the satisfaction of being able to present in the present report the first systematic experimental study of any feature of the behavior of an anthropoid ape. Among the most interesting and valuable of the descriptions which may be classed among accounts of tests of mental ability is Hobhouse's study of the chimpanzee.
For instance, the chapter on the forms of social organization in Professor Hobhouse's Morals in Evolution starts off with an account of the system in vogue amongst the Veddas of the Ceylon jungle, his description being founded on the excellent observations of the brothers Sarasin.
"The second question 'Are our officials exerting themselves to make the Camps as little oppressive as possible? can also be answered in the affirmative, judging from the evidence supplied by Miss Hobhouse herself. This does not imply that at the date of Miss Hobhouse's visit, or at any time, there were not matters capable of improvement.
"Against black Pagans, Turks and Saracens, And toiled with works of war, retired himself To Italy, and there, at Venice, gave His body to that pleasant country's earth. And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long!" Before I left Venice, I had returned to you your late, and Mr. Hobhouse's sheets of Juan.
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