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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 af~ 

 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, 1 feel 

 that, although it has been a humble one, the Society for 

 the Study of Comparative Psychology in Montreal has 

 not existed in vain. 



