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reply to this was rapped indistinctly.) " Have you 

 no pity for any man or animal ? " " for dog I "... 



22 April : I had told her that my brother was coming, 

 and that he wore a field-grey coat and was a soldier. 

 When he arrived I said to her : " Who is this ? " 

 " Your brother." 



Next day she was asked in writing : " What did 

 Lola see swimming in the water ? " " duck ! " I 

 had shown her a duck on the previous afternoon. 



26 April : On this day Lola appeared before 

 Professors Kraemer, Mack, Kindermann and Ziegler, 

 of Hohenheim, which resulted in these gentlemen for- 

 warding the following statement to the " Mitteilungen 

 fur Tierpsychologie " (= Communications respecting 

 the psychology of Animals), series 1916 ; Number i, 

 p. II : 



"EXAMINATION OF LOLA BY PROFESSORS 

 KRAMER, MACK, KINDERMANN AND ZIEGLER 



" In our presence Lola solved a number of sums, 

 such as : 5 + 8 = 13. 30 + 10 15 = 25. 4 Mark 

 i mark 20 = 2 mark. 80. 



" She next counted the number of persons present. 

 After this, several dots were scattered about a sheet of 

 paper : at first she put their number down as 19 but 

 corrected this to 18. Lola then told us the time : 

 it was 4.i6m., and after this she did some spelling. 

 When shown the picture of a flower she rapped : 

 " blum " (Blume = flower), and to my somewhat 

 faulty drawing of a cat she responded with " tir " 

 (Tier = animal), while finally to the question of what 

 was the name of the Mannheim dog she replied " mein 



