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theorising without very great regard to them was so 
tempting in framing explanations of organic nature, is a 
work that the world long undervalued, and the import- 
ance of which it is to be feared all psychologists at the 
present day do not adequately appreciate. 
In this, at all events, our unpretentious Association 
may claim to have trodden in the safe path. At the end 
of our first decade of existence it may be profitable to 
review what has been accomplished. It could scarcely 
be expected that the members of this Association, being 
for the most part undergraduates, whose time is largely 
taken up with professional studies, should be able to 
make elaborate original researches worthy of publica- 
tion. From the first, however, our proceedings have 
been given to the public in condensed form by the local 
Press, and evidence has been abundant on every hand 
that one of the results has been an altered attitude of 
mind on the part of many intelligent persons in this city 
towards the animal world about us, notably our domestic 
species. This is not a work to be despised, for the wel- 
fare of our fellow-creatures lower in the scale is largely 
dependent on the views we entertain of their psychic 
nature. 
It is surely not to be supposed that such studies as 
have engaged the members of our Association are with- 
out a value of a professional kind; for in the handling 
of sick animals, in diagnosing their exact condition, in 
appreciating their sensations, and generally in under- 
standing their entire nature, the man who observes and 
reflects on such things must be more competent as a 
veterinarian, other things being equal, and certainly a 
more agreeable visitor to both patients and clients. 
But it is difficult, in my opinion, to over-estimate the 
good to the individual who, in the right spirit, studies 
animals. A frame of mind is established which, even 
when one exaggerates animal intelligence, is rarely 
