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I have, very rarely, heard the word "steeple" used for "staple," 

 but never before have I seen it so used in a scientific monograph. 



Again, I am regarded as having been "misleading" (p. 86) 

 in my statement that "the year-old raccoons apparently are 

 not quite full grown," for Dr. Hornaday and Mr. DeVry say 

 "that raccoons reach maturity at three years of age." But do 

 Dr. Hornaday and Mr. DeVry mean, therefore, that the raccoon 

 accomplishes but one third of his growth each year, as Hunter 

 seems to interpret them ? I cannot believe it. I kept my 

 animals three years and I wish now to re-affirm the statement 

 above. They grew but little after the first year. Work and 

 confinement may have stunted them, though they were fed 

 each day to satiety. In parks I have now seen many raccoons of 

 about the same size which mine attained. They had been in 

 confinement for a long time so they must have been full grown. 

 I have also seen a number of much larger specimens. 



Criticisms of my Work: The introduction to Dr. Hunter's 

 thesis takes the form of a fearful arraignment of both my experi- 

 ments and my arguments. To use his own phrase, most of 

 the latter "can be dismissed summarily" (p. 16). They are in 

 turn dismissed summarily in favor of the sensori-motor explan- 

 ation, so his theory of raccoon behavior at the beginning of his 

 paper differs entirely from that at its close. I suppose that I 

 ought to make some reply to these criticisms, but I shall be as 

 brief as possible and at that I shall select only the most important 

 ones. It seems better to omit any answer at all to such remarks 

 as, "To some it may seem too trivial either for serious analysis 

 or notice" (p. 10), a criticism which I seem to share with Lloyd 

 Morgan and others, save that I have persisted in their trivialities. 



Criticism 1. "Hence assuming the facts that Thorndike and 

 Cole assume to be unquestionable, it need only follow that the 

 raccoon exhibits more complex sensori-motor behavior than the 

 dog and the cat, and not that it shows a new type of behavior, 

 i. e., a type of behavior involving the functional presence of a 

 representative factor." (P. 15.) 



Reply. Yet he later found just such a factor functionally 

 present in raccoons. 



Criticism 2 . 'To argue that this means image of apple is 

 certainly naive at least. Could the raccoon not sense the apple 

 when his nose was within a foot of it ?" (P. 18.) 



