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means that a laboratory for the kind of investiga- 

 tions that has been suggested shall have behind 

 it a financial backing, regulated on business 

 principles, so that an experiment once undertaken 

 shall not be abandoned until the question involved 

 is answered, pro or con, 



I am not attempting to present a new idea ; I 

 am summarizing the conclusions of such men 

 as Huxley, Darwin, Romanes, De Varigny, Mor- 

 gan, Gadow^ Poulton, and others. Perhaps I have 

 formulated my suggestions in a more concrete 

 way, because of the inspiring efforts of these 

 workers to attain a like end. That is all. 



But to what end must all work reach ? Is it 

 not the human element and interest that it bears 

 upon? In closing I must again quote the pro- 

 phetic words of Professor Gross : — 



" If the observations of animals is to be rendered 

 fruitful for the unsolved problems of anthropology, 

 an untried way must be entered upon ; attention 

 must be directed less to particular resemblances 

 to man, and more to specific animal characteristics. 

 Hereby -a means may be found for the better 

 understanding of the animal part in man than can 

 be attained through the discussion of human ex- 

 amples alone. Man's animal nature reveals itself 

 in instinctive acts, and the latest investigators tell 

 us that man has at least as many instincts as the 

 brutes have, though most of them have become 



