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way, we may presume, logical." He reminds us of the groups 

 and formations of flocks of gregarious animals, of the wedge- 

 shaped phalanx of wild ducks on the wing, and of the huge 

 globe of soaring storks. He records his expectation that if a 

 spider were to visualize numbers he would do so in some 

 web-shaped fashion, and a bee in hexagons (3, 88). 



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Plate III. from Sir Francis Gallon's " Inquiries into Human Faculty 

 reproduced by the kind permission of the University of London. 



FiQ. 2. 



