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pond to its fate. Upon making his appearance at the pond 

 on the following morning, the pike came towards him to the 

 edge of the water, and actually laid its head upon his foot. 

 The doctor thought this most extraordinary, but he examined 

 the fish's skull, and found it going on all right. He then 

 walked backwards and forwards along the edge of the pond 

 for some time, and the fish continued to swim up and down, 

 turning whenever he turned ; but being blind on the wounded 

 side of its skull, it always appeared agitated when it had that 

 side towards the bank, as it could not then see its benefactor. 

 On the next day he took some young friends clown to see the 

 fish, which came to him as usual ; and, at length, he actually 

 taught the pike to come to him at his whistle and feed out 

 of his hands. With other persons it continued as shy as fish 

 usually are. He (Dr. Warwick) thought this a most remark- 

 able instance of gratitude in a fish for a benefit received ; and, 

 as it always came at his whistle, it proved also what he had 

 previously, with other naturalists, disbelieved, that fishes are 

 sensible to sound. 



Dr. Warwick next related an anecdote illustrative of 

 extraordinary instinct in the elephant " Chunee," which was 

 shot some years ago at Exeter Change, London, in conse- 

 quence of Ins having gone mad. This animal would pick up 

 a shilling from the ground with its trunk, and place it in the 

 waistcoat pocket of the person who intentionally dropped it. 

 Upon one occasion, Dr. Warwick dropped a shilling purposely 

 out of the animal's reach, and waited the result with some 

 curiosity. The elephant appeared to consider for some time, 

 and then raising its proboscis to nearly a horizontal position, 

 blew violently against the opposite wall ; the reverberation of 

 the wind was so forcible that it blew the coin over ; and the 

 elephant repeated its blowing until it had got the shilling 

 within its reach ; it then picked it up as usual, and deposited 

 it in the doctor's waistcoat pocket. 



The President, Dr. Booth, also related an anecdote of this 



