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freely with us. I have as yet, I know, made 

 only a very small beginning, and hope to 

 carry the experiment much further, but my 

 object in troubling you with this letter is 

 *wofold. In the first place, I trust that some 

 of your readers may be able and willing to 

 suggest extensions or improvements of the 

 idea. Secondly, my spare time is small, and 

 liable to many interruptions ; and animals 

 also, we know, differ greatly from one another. 

 Now, many of your readers have favourite 

 dogs, and I would express a hope that some 

 of them may be disposed to study them in 

 the manner indicated. The observations, 

 even though negative, would be interesting ; 

 but I confess I hope that some positive re- 

 sults might follow, which would enable us to 

 obtain a more correct insight into the minds 

 of animals than we have yet acquired. 



JOHN LUBBOCK. 



COMMUNICATION WITH ANIMALS. 



[April 12, 1884.] 



You did me the honour, some weeks ago, to 

 insert a letter of mine, containing suggestions 



