THE PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ANIMALS 175 



II THE 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 upori the records, and the part of the paper 

 devoted to conclusions from the observations, briefer 

 than they might otherwise be. 



The readers 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. 



