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Excerpt from Behavior Monographs, Vol. 3
While recognizing that the task of prospecting for an anthro poid or primate station may in its outcome prove incomparably more important for the biological and sociological sciences and for human welfare than my experimental study of ideational behavior, I give the latter first place in this report, reserving for the concluding section an account of the situation regarding our knowledge of the monkeys, apes, and other primates, and a description of a plan and program for the thorough-going and long continued study of these organisms in a permanent station or research institute.
In 1915, a long desired opportunity came to me to devote myself undividedly to tasks which I have designated above as prospecting for an anthropoid station and experimenting with monkeys and apes. First of all, the interruption of my academic duties by sabbatical leave gave me free time. But in addition to this freedom for research, I needed animals and equip ment. These, too, happily, were most satisfactorily provided.
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