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gations are hidden, notwithstanding a reported announce- 

 ment that a cure for Phthisis is perfected. The question 

 was discussed by Members Cooley, Dwight, Van Gieson, 

 Poucher and Burgess, the tenor of the discussion being 

 to explain Dr. Koch's action. The Lymph is not yet 

 perfected nor the investigations completed, and at this 

 early date the yet imperfect results might by stimulating 

 lessable practitioners to do a great deal of harm. 



C. C. Gaines was nominated for membership in the 

 section. 



Prof. W. B. Dwight was elected Curator with power 

 to appoint an assistant. He subsequently announced 

 the appointment of Dr. Neumann as such assistant. 



DECEMBER 9, 1890.— SECOND REGULAR MEETING. 



Present Chairman Els worth; and Members C. N. 

 Arnold, Burgess, Cooley, Dwight, Herrick, Pelton, 

 Tompkins, Van Gieson, Wodell, Warring, Neumann, 

 F. S. Arnold, and a number of visitors. 



Mr. Edward Burgess read the following paper entitled : 



ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. 



It is my purpose this evening to consider the subject 

 of Animal Intelligence. While it may still be an open 

 question with some whether animals do possess intelli- 

 gence, the accumulating testimony so strongly tends to 

 establish this, that it seems but a question of time when 

 this belief will be universally held. By intelligence is 

 meant something different from instinct. All animals 

 possess instincts of some kind — that is they have in- 

 herited from their ancestors' traits or impulses, to certain 

 fixed modes of action, which they are irresistibly impelled 

 to adopt. Instincts are not exactly automatic like reflex 

 action, because the element of conciousness enters into 

 them. At the same time they are involuntary to this 



