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of men whose daily life-work gives them so large an 
opportunity for at the same time acquiring and diffusing 
truer views in regard to the lower animals. Your 
enthusiasm and success during the first year of our 
existence as a Society, have been a matter of equal 
surprise and delight to me, especially considering how 
fully you are occupied with the ordinary duties of your 
profession. We hope to enlist the interest of others and 
bring them into our ranks; to accumulate a library of 
books bearing on this subject ; secure a large number of 
correspondents from widely separated parts of the 
continent, and in various other ways stimulate the 
study which we feel calls for and is worthy of man’s 
earnest attention.* 
I cannot close this address without making grateful 
reference on behalf of this Society to the kind manner 
in which, in many ways, Principal M‘Eachran, and the 
Professors of the Veterinary College, have lent their 
support to our projects. 
COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY.+ 
In entering upon the third year of our existence as a 
Society, it has seemed to me that it might be encouraging 
to the older members and instructive to those who are 
meeting with us for the first time, to review the work 
of the Society for the past two years ; to point out what 
we have tried to accomplish and what has been actually 
achieved. 
* This young Society, so far as known, the only one in 
America for the study of Comparative Psychology, is composed 
at present almost entirely of the students and teachers of the 
School of Comparative (Veterinary) Medicine in Montreal, 
though its membership is open to all eligible persons. 
+ Read before the Association for the Study of Comparative 
Psychology in connection with the Montreal Veterinary College, in 
1888. 
