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declares : " However strange it may seem, I have re- 

 peatedly remarked that Lola always finds abstract calcu- 

 lation and spelling easy ; whilst on the other hand it 

 always seems difficult to make her move single parts of her 

 body, or to carry out practical orders." (I myself was able 

 to make similar observations at Elberfeld and at Mann- 

 heim ; it seemed to me, however, that the horses were 

 more docile to " practical orders."). 



On page 42 I find : " During the explanation of the 

 digits and of the tens, the dog did not look at me, but bit 

 with apparently very great interest a leg of the stool." 

 It must be noted, as I have already pointed out, that the 

 digits and the tens were both alike learned quickly and 

 well. The authoress explains this action of Lola's as a 

 " mark of embarrassment." But to me that leg of the 

 stool is exactly on a par with the salad leaf mentioned by 

 Professor Ferrari : i.e. the dog did not pay slightest 

 attention to the lesson ; it replied without the help of 

 intelligent attention on its part ; it replied in the sub- 

 liminal way, like the unconscious instrument of a psychic 

 automatism, and by the use of an intelligence which was 

 not its own. 



Similar impressions are left by other points in the story 

 of Lola. I read on page 64 : " If, for instance, I write 

 one under the other three or four numbers of two figures 

 each, very quickly, and without adding them myself, and 

 then hold up the sheet in front of the dog, I see that her 

 eyes only glance at the sheet for 1-2 seconds ; after which 

 the dog bends its head to add but looks away, and then 

 taps the reply." This behaviour is the same as that of 

 Krall's pony Hanschen, when Dr. Assagioli and I made 

 experiments with it. 



The same can be said of various other performances of an 

 intuitive kind, on the part of Lola, to which the authoress 

 refers : e.g. knowledge in four seconds of a given number 

 of points (up to 35), marked without any regularity what- 

 ever on a piece of paper. (Similar experiments were made 

 at Elberfeld and Mannheim.) Other performances of an 

 intuitive kind concern various measures of time, tempera- 

 ture, musical intervals, etc., and they reach their highest 

 point in the premonitions as to the course of the weather 

 and the birth of the puppies. Professor Ziegler finds the 



