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as having taken place during the course of your 

 life? 



(9) If ever you have been in danger of death, what 

 were the circumstances, and what your feelings ? 



(10) Remarks. 



(Signature.) l 



This communication well exemplifies the spirit in 

 which Mr. Romanes approached the problems of 

 animal faculty. He spent, indeed, much time and 

 labour in collecting and classifying the observations 

 and anecdotes which he published in ' Animal Intelli- 

 gence ' ; but he lost no opportunities of observing and 

 experimenting for himself. In this, as in other 

 departments of inquiry, his constant effort was to be 

 in direct and immediate touch with facts. His 

 observations on his own dogs, especially those which 

 he published in his article 2 on ' Fetichism in Animals,' 

 wiiereiri he describes the effects on a terrier of the 

 apparent coming to life of a dry bone which the dog 

 had been playing with, and to which a fine thread 

 had been attached, and those which dealt with the 

 power of tracking their master by scent, 3 further 

 exemplify his careful methods and his resort, wher- 

 ever possible, to experimental conditions. His obser- 

 vations, too, on the ' homing ' of bees, 4 by which he 

 showed that the insects find their way back to the 

 hive through their experience of the topography and 

 by knowledge of landmarks, rather than through any 

 mysterious innate faculty or sense of direction, are 



1 I have not been able to discover any answer to these, except those 

 given by the Hon. L. Tollemache in his Stones of Stumbling. 

 * Nature, vol. xvii. p. 168. 3 Ibid. vol. xxxvi. p. 273. 



4 Ibid. vol. xxxii. p. 030. 



