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these articles will have been fully served, if they may 

 in any way stimulate the personal inquiries of my 

 readers into the great study of modern times, namely, 

 that of ascertaining how the universe of life has been 

 modified and evolved. Such a study is fraught with 

 profit in more ways than one. The search after evi- 

 dence in favour of or against Evolution necessitates 

 an amount of inquiry which is certain to strew the 

 observer's pathway with curious facts concerning 

 every department of life science. Furthermore, the 

 main question at issue is one which in reality under- 

 lies all our conceptions of life, and of the order of 

 nature. It is the question which the best and wisest 

 of mankind have ever asked and inquired of them- 

 selves the How, Why, and Whence of this world and 

 its belongings. Happy indeed are they who, in the 

 spirit of earnest truth-seekers, are permitted to engage 

 in the work of discovering new facts and phases of 

 the wondrous story of creation, which Nature is ever 

 inviting us to peruse. 



INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMALS. 



BY R. A. PROCTOR. 



FEW of the questions raised in Darwin's " Descent of 

 Man " are at once more difficult to deal with satis- 

 factorily, or more important in their bearing on the 

 subject of that volume, than the question how far 

 animals possess mental powers akin to those of man. 



