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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. 



COMPAEATIVE 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. 



f Read before the Association for the Study of Comparative 

 Psychology in connection with the Montreal Veterinary College, in 

 1888. 



