OF THE 



UsTSTITTJTIE 



VOL. 8. SALEM, MASS., JANUARY, 1876. No. I/ 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. Ten Cents a Single Copy. 



KEGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1876. 



MEETING this evening. The PRESIDENT in the chair. 

 Records read. 



The paper for the evening was on " The Instinct and 

 Intelligence of Animals," by S. C. OLIVER. 



Colonel Oliver illustrated his remarks with explanatory 

 anecdotes, and said that spoken and written language and 

 all the significant machinery of human life had come to be 

 regarded as essential parts of our intelligence, and it would 

 be no easy matter for us to represent to ourselves the 

 movements of the human intellect deprived of the assist- 

 ance of that artificial apparatus employed by human beings 

 to enlarge the compass of thought and of knowledge. It is 

 quite necessary however to make the attempt to set forth 

 the fundamental peculiarities of intelligence in general,, 

 that we may, by this means, gain another step towards 

 the rational explanation of the 'animal mind. 



The first great feature of intelligence common to the 



ESSEX INST. BULLETIN. VIII (1) 



