. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . he West African apes, and to be ableclearly to distinguish certain sounds betokening, for instance, fear,hunger, friendship. Pie described how he established himself in acage in the forest where the apes came and visited him; he held in fact a sort of school whichwas attended by carefullychosen pupils. The story is known ofHumboldt finding a parrotin Brazil which was able tospeak an otherwise extinctIndian dialect. The scientistsof the future will, as you see,have more reliable sources ofinformation in the talking-machine
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . he West African apes, and to be ableclearly to distinguish certain sounds betokening, for instance, fear,hunger, friendship. Pie described how he established himself in acage in the forest where the apes came and visited him; he held in fact a sort of school whichwas attended by carefullychosen pupils. The story is known ofHumboldt finding a parrotin Brazil which was able tospeak an otherwise extinctIndian dialect. The scientistsof the future will, as you see,have more reliable sources ofinformation in the talking-machine record. I have here some recordsmade by the Pigmies of Cen-tral Africa, who were broughton a visit to this country byColonel Harrison. If you will permit me I will give you a Pigmyfolk song with national accompaniment. This paper on Mr. Berliners invention, and the recording andreproduction of musical sounds, would not be complete if I omittedto refer to another instrument, that now known as the Auxeto-Gramophone or AuxetoiDhone, which works on a different Fig. 18.—Valve of pneumatic sound box. 228 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908.
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