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Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, . . Dakiel Dwight. 



Hampshire, John A. Hawes. 



Highland, Stephen Shepley. 



Hampden, John B. Moore. 



Hampden East, L. P. Wakner. 



Union, Marshall P. Wilder. 



Franklin, O. B. Hadwen. 



Beerfield Valley^ Addison H. Holland. 



Berkshire, W. L. Warner. 



Housatonic, Paul A. Chadboitrne. 



Hoosac Valley, Edmund H. Bennett. 



Norfolk, George B. Loring. 



Bristol, Hebron Vincent. 



Bristol Central, J. N. Bagg. 



Plymouth, MiLO J. Smith. 



Hingham, S. B. Phinney. 



Marshfield, . Metcalf J. Smith. 



Barnstable, Daniel B. Fenn. 



Nantucket, John E. Merrill. 



Martha's Vineyard, Franklin C. Knox. 



The report was accepted, and the assignment made accord- 

 ingly- 



Mr. Vincent submitted an essay upon the 



MENTAL FACULTIES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



A treatise on the Mental Faculties of Domestic Animals 

 may properly be denominated comparative mental philosophy, 

 analogous to comparative anatomy and physiology. There is 

 a similarity between such animals and human beings in the 

 cerebral organism. But a more striking proof of correspond- 

 ing elements in animals is seen in the outward manifestations 

 of those qualities, going to show, as I think, mental faculties 

 to some extent, and in some degree, similar to such powers in 

 the human species. 



In any examination of this subject, it would be proper first 

 to state what the acknowledged mental faculties of man are, 

 and then to show by known facts, as exhibited by the animals 

 themselves,. the evidences of the existence of such correspond- 

 ing faculties in them, and, as far as might be, their extent. 

 The human mind is our conscious existence, and its powers 

 we denominate its faculties. The senses of touch, vision, 

 hearing, smell and taste are commonly regarded as the 



