THE PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ANIMALS 175 
Eee —Paw Cat: 
THE present paper is a continuation of that series on 
the psychic development of animals, or psychogenesis, 
the first part of which appeared in the Transactions of 
the Royal Society of Canada for 1894. 
As the desirability, purpose, and scope of such 
investigations have been set forth in the paper on the 
dog, just referred to, no lengthened introduction will 
be necessary in the present instance. 
The records were made under more favourable 
circumstances, and are more extensive and complete 
than those concerning any other animal that I have, up 
to the present, been able to study. 
The kitten seems to me to have been one of more 
than ordinary interest, and though the observations 
extend over 135 days, had the animal not disappeared, 
I should have continued my records. 
The diary will tell to each reader its own story, and 
I shall therefore make the observations upon it some- 
what brief and suggestive, rather than attempt to 
exhaust the lessons it teaches, and as this paper will 
be followed by one in which the dog and the cat will 
be compared, there is additional reason for making the 
notes upon the records, and the part of the paper 
devoted to conclusions from the observations, briefer 
than they might otherwise be. 
The acti who peruse the first of the series, and 
the subsequent papers, will naturally derive more 
profit—whatever that may be —from the present paper. 
Diary. 
The following notes were made on a litter of kittens, 
the parents of which were ordinary domestic cats. 
