PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY 51 
have more facts for our conclusions. The departures 
of French psychologists are very welcome, whatever 
the final outcome may be. It cannot be doubted that 
the study of hypnotism, double personality, and morbid 
states of various kinds has greatly advanced our know- 
ledge of the normal man and his fellows lower in the 
scale; and I should be disposed to say that the 
investigation of the psychic processes of animals aids 
in the comprehension of even such abnormal states as 
those to which reference has been made. 
At the recent great Psychological Congress a 
Munich there was, among others, a Department for 
Comparative Psychology ; and an Endowed Lectureship 
on this subject has recently been established at 
Aberdeen, so that it is clear that in this, as in other 
directions, the world is moving. 
If my view is correct that we are in need of vastly 
more facts and observations, then is there-room for 
many workers. The experimental has a wide range of 
application in Comparative Psychology, and as yet 
but little has been done. In this direction, as I have 
urged for years on our members, we could do much 
to advance the subject we have at heart. 
It has been my happy privilege to attend every 
meeting of this Association held since its foundation, 
and, reviewing the work of the past ten years, I feel 
that, although it has been a humble one, the Society for 
the Study of Comparative Psychology in Montreal has 
not existed in vain. 
