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ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANIMAL REASON. 



( Continued from p. 218. ) 

 By W. LAUDER LINDSAY, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



IN the last number of the Scottish Naturalist I endeavoured 

 to show how rich a mine of information, concerning the 

 moral and intellectual faculties of the lower animals, exists in 

 the Daily Newspaper Press ; and how this mine may be profit- 

 ably worked by those competent to such an undertaking. 

 To point out that this is even truer of the more permanent 

 forms of the Serial Press, — that the nature and amount of the in- 

 formation which they treasure on the same subject are superior, 

 and the reward of extracting their riches correspondingly greater, 

 — is the object of the present paper, which relates to the valua- 

 tion and value of anonymous articles on Animals and their habits 

 in all kinds of Serials, from Weekly Magazines or Journals, such 

 as Chambers's or "Once a Week," to ponderous Quarterly 

 Reviews. 



In the "Cornhill Magazine" for December, 1872, there 

 appeared an anonymous paper — an excellent article equally 

 instructive and interesting — entitled, " Dogs whom I have met.'' 

 An inquiry at the editor, as to the authorship of the article, and 

 the authenticity of its anecdotes, elicited the following court- 

 eous reply : — 



"London, January 19, 1873. 



"The editor of the "Cornhill Magazine" presents his compliments to 

 Dr. Lauder Lindsay, and begs to inform him that the writer of the paper — 

 1 Dogs whom I have met ' is Miss Frances Power Cobbe ; and he has 

 no doubt but that the statements it contains are actual facts." 



In the same year (1872) my attention was attracted by a still 

 more admirable — again anonymous — contribution to the 

 "Quarterly Review" for October, on "The Consciousness 

 of Dogs." As usual I applied to the editor (who is also 

 by the way, so far as I am concerned, anonymous) for the name 

 and address of the author, but in this case without reply. It 

 then occurred to me that Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh, the 

 well-known Canophilist, and author of " Rab and his Friends," 

 might know something of the authorship of such an article in 

 so important a serial. My surmise proved correct. On applica- 

 tion to him, he at once suggested the name of Miss Cobbe 



