ILLUSTRATIONS OF INSTINCT ; deduced from the Habits of British 

 Animals. By Jonathan Couch, F.L.S. Member of the Royal Geological 

 Society, and of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, &c. Post 8vo. 8s. 6c?. ■ 



Chapter I. Instinct, and mode of studying it, — Creatures of lowest organiza- 

 tion. — Tissues. — Beginning, Division, and Offices of the Nervous System. — 

 Irritability. — Chap. II. Addition of Tissues. — Groupings of Animals. — Life. — 

 Differences in Nerves. — Balance of Tissues, fonning the specific identity of 

 Animals. — Chap. III. Variation of Habits with Age, and according to Periods. — 

 In Building, Migration, Situation, Appetite. — Attack and Escape. — Methods to 

 be adopted in Human Defence. — Consciousness of peculiar Powers. — Chap. IV. 

 Disposition to become Tamed. — Hindrances to Taming. — Timidity. — The most 

 usefiil Properties of Animals neglected. — Chap. V. Escape from Danger by Flight 

 and Concealment. — Immersion in Water. — Use of peculiar Powers. — Foi-ms and 

 Colours. — Electricity. — Chap. VI. Errors of Poets and Divines regarding Instinct. 

 — This property in Infancy. — The Soul. — Chap. VII. Idea of God. — Man as 

 originally created. — Human Speech. — Language of Animals. — Song of Birds. — 

 Influence of Sounds. — Musical Instruments. — Association of Sounds with Ac- 

 tions. — Chap. VIII. Migrations of Birds and Insects. — Chap. IX. The Human 

 Soul Immaterial. — Aspiration after Immortality, an Instinct. — Difference between 

 Human and Brutal Souls. — Occult Instincts. — Reason united with Instinct. — 

 Chap. X. The lower Instincts united with Reason. — Hunger and Provision. — 

 Contrivances. — Escape from Danger. — Chap. XI. Mistakes in the Interpretation 

 of the Actions of Animals. — Feigning Death. — Effects of Terror. — Chap. XII. 

 Circle of Animal Actions. — Nests of Birds. — Their unusual Situations, with 

 peculiar Contrivances. — Conveyance of young ones. — Desire of Progeny. — Dupli- 

 cation of Broods. — Chap. XIII. Compassion to young Birds by those of a different 

 Race. — Instinct of Cleanliness. — Chap. XIV. Arts to mislead from the Nest or 

 young ones. — Defence of the Young. — CaiTying them off. — Seeking assistance 

 from Man. — Chap. XV. Nests of Fishes. — Variation of Instinct. — Receiving 

 young ones into the Mouth. — Chap. XVI. Variety of Instinct. — Deficiency or 

 Irregularity in the Law of Attachment to the Offspring. — Chap. XVII. Ordinary 

 Retreats of Animals. — Burrowing. — Removing Suspicion, or misleading it. — 

 Chap. XVIII. Condition of Torpidity, and Retreats for Shelter. — Human in- 

 stances of Voluntary Insensibility. — Chap. XIX. Migration of Quadrupeds. — 

 Chap. XX. Nocturnal Animals — their Peculiarities. — Chap. XXI. Tame 

 Animals returning to the Wild Condition. — Natives of Australia. — Difference 

 between Taming and Civilization. — Chap. XXII. Comparative Metaphysics. — 

 Study of the Mind of Man and Animals. — Intensity of Intention. — Precocious 

 and arrested developments in Youth and Age. — Political and Moral Virtues. 



" His facts are of very great importance, and in his treatment and arrangement 

 of them he has advanced very considerably the discussion of a highly important 

 question. His anecdotes are as amusing, and sometimes as astonishing, as a 

 fairy tale ,• and he makes them subserve his reasonings with great acuteness and 

 skill. On the whole, Illustrations of Instinct is a very fascinating book." 



Eccaminei\ October 16, 1847. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



