INDEX. 



307 



Associations of feelings and Dr. 

 Wilks, 155 



Astronomer and star, 269 



Attention and stretching to, 272 



, sensuous, 209 



Attribute of existence, its signifi- 

 cance, 177 



Authority not appealed to, but evi- 

 dence, 39, 161, 294 



Author's position, 5, 202, 242 



B 



Babbage's calculating machine, 175 



Baby names for objects, 217 



talk, 206, 221, 222, 245, 263, 



270 



Bain, Prof., and exaggeration in anec- 

 dotes of animals, 149 



Ballets, pantomime of, 218, 260 



Balls, small, in motion, 33 



Bates, Mr., staggered, 130 



Bathing described in pantomime, 218 



Bathos and a cockatoo, 25, 136 



Bear pawing for floating bread, 75 



Beavers, 292 



Bees practising funereal rites, 134 



Beggarly elements of thought, 273 



Begging dogs, 123 



the question, 21 



Beginning of language, 241 



" Being and Know^ing," work of 

 Prof. Veitch, 196 



, as expressed in Hebrew, 251 



, idea of, 70, 249 



, , and deaf-mutes, 145 



, , and substantive verb, 249 



, , latent in every concept, 



271 



Belt, Mr., and ants in conclave, 130 



, , and tunnelling American 



ants, 76 



Benson, Miss, and collie-dog, 78 



Berkeley, 40, 239 



Besetting sin of our day, 299 



Best language is the minimum that 

 expresses clearly, 243 



Bestiality of man, 4, 32 



Bias of narrators of anecdotes of 

 animals, 129, 149 



Bible, idea of, and ignorant deaf- 

 mutes, 165 



Big-enough-to-be -worth-a-prolonged- 

 effort, idea of, 49 



Binet, M., ill, 112 



Biological distinction as to poten- 

 tiality the most important one, 222 



Birds talking, 154, 156, 160, 191, 278 



Bodily requirements of a rational 

 animal, 83 



Body-begging by monkeys, 134 



Bolting a door, illustration from, 67 



Born-mutes and Mr. Tylor, 146 



Bottle, sight of, and parrot, 155 



Boy and apple-tree, tale in gesture, 

 140 



biting his own arm, 204 



striking another, as expressed by 



the deaf and dumb, 143 



*' Box,'^ the term, 244 



Bradley, 195 



Brain and mind, 219 



Bramston, Miss, and collie-dog, 79 



Brazil and children, 232 



Breaking vocal tones, 286 



Breaks in nature, 10 



, no evidence against, 300 



of dynamic order, 13 



Bridgman, Laura, 166 



Bright things and child, 185, 186, 

 269, 278 



British Association at Sheffield, 22 



Bronze men and iron men, 217 



Brush unscrewed by a monkey, 86 



Brute evolved into man, representa- 

 tion of, 288 



Brutes demonstrated of different na- 

 ture from us by ethics, 273 



dumb, 298 



have no ideas, 41 



— : — have no power of abstraction, 42 



higher than abnormal men may 



be, 8 



, rational, and objective contra- 

 diction, 215 



, their nature, and Catholicism, 



32 



BLichner, Prof., and pious bees, 134 



Bufifon, Aristotle, and Bureau de la 

 Malle, 24 



Bunsen and language, 251 



Bushmen, their clicks, 247, 286, 287 



Cage, illustration from, 268 



Caird, Prof., 195 



Calculating machine, Babbage's, 175 



Caldwell, 274 



California and children, 232 



Calling of dogs by parrots, 157, 159, 

 184 



Canadian villages and neglected chil- 

 dren, 232 



