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routed French army of MacMahon was streaming in wild 

 confusion along the roads from the battlefield of Worth, 

 horse and foot, guns and baggage wagons all mixed up 

 together, a parrot in a cage atop of a sutler's cart kept on 

 screaming out : "A Berlin ! A Berlin !" 



F. H. TYRRELL, Lieutenant- General. 



July 17, 1909. 



NOTE. Everybody interested in the mind of animals 

 and the problem as to whether it is separated from the 

 human mind in degree or in kind, should, I think, read 

 Professor Lloyd Morgan's lucid and able " Introduction 

 to Comparative Psychology," and I hope that he will read 

 the letters in this book dealing with animal psychology, 

 and tell us whether they in any way modify his con- 

 clusions. Those conclusions are very open-minded and 

 free of dogma, but they reject the theory that the higher 

 animals are capable of rational powers and of perceiving 

 relations beyond sense-experience. But it is interesting 

 that he gives the case of a monkey who wanted to climb 

 the roof of a hut by means of a door, and finding that the 

 door repeatedly swung to and so baulked him, laid hold 

 of a thick blanket and threw it over the door. If there 

 were no previous associations of casual origin to act as 

 suggestion, then, the Professor admits, this is a clear 

 example of a reasoning process. 



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The enclosed extract from last Saturday's Yorkshire 

 Observer is, I think, evidence of value in support of an 

 affirmative answer to this question : 



11 A remarkable incident illustrative of a dog's sagacity 

 was witnessed on the Otley Koad at Far Headingley, near 

 Leeds, on Thursday evening. A heavy dray was drawn 

 up outside a house of refreshment at the roadside, and 



