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scarcely be worthy of the name of sciences 

 to-day but for studies conducted on simpler 

 forms. Do not psychologists sometimes 

 forget, as anatomists long did, that the 

 human is scarcely to be comprehended 

 apart from the study of simpler creatures ? 

 Should we not look at psychology as the 

 naturalist now does at zoology, and endeavor 

 to discover the various grades in psychic 

 processes, if such there be, and it is only, so 

 far as I can see, by comparative investiga- 

 tion that their existence or non-existence 

 can be established. 



To do such work at its best requires a 

 knowledge of both biology and psychology, 

 and an intimate acquaintance with the ways 

 of animals. Closet lucubrations can not 

 be expected of themselves to advance com- 

 parative psychology very much. 



Might not human psychology be made 

 more objective still, and is not the amount 

 of wheat garnered much out of proportion 

 to the quantity of sheaves brought to the 

 thresher? Has individual psychology re- 

 ceived the attention it deserves ? Might not 

 the inductive method be more fully applied 

 to psychology ? I have long been convinced 

 that differences for races and for individuals 

 have been insufficiently recognized in phys- 

 iology, and at last there seems to be a reac- 

 tion against the former reckless leaps from 

 frog or rabbit to man. 



The physiologist cannot, however, afford 

 to ignore the frog or the rabbit even when 

 his goal is man ; nor, if I may venture to ex- 

 press an opinion, can the psychologist do 

 so either without some loss, — possibly great 

 loss, to his subject. 



I hope to see published in the next few 

 years detailed studies on many individual 

 human beings of both sexes and also on in- 

 dividual animals. We must have more 

 facts for our conclusions. The departures of 

 French psychologists are very welcome, 

 whatever the final outcome may be. It 

 cannot be doubted that the study of hypno- 



tism, double personality and morbid states 

 of various kinds has greatly advanced our 

 knowledge of the normal man, and his fel- 

 lows lower in the scale ; and I should be 

 disposed to say that the investigation of the 

 psychic processes of animals aids in the 

 comprehension of even such abnormal states 

 as those to which reference has been made. 



At the recent great Psychological Con- 

 gress at Munich there was, among others, 

 a department for comparative psychology ; 

 and an endowed lectureship on this subject 

 has recently been established at Aberdeen, 

 so that it is clear that in this, as in other 

 directions, the world is moving. 



If my view is correct that we are in need 

 of vastly more facts and observations, then 

 is there room for many workers. The ex- 

 perimental has a wide range of application 

 in comparative psychology and as yet 

 but little has been done. In this direction, 

 as I have urged for years on our members, 

 we could do much to advance the subject 

 we have at heart. 



It has been my happy privilege to attend 

 every meeting of this Association held 

 since its foundation, and reviewing the 

 work of the past ten years I feel that, al- 

 though it has been a humble one, the Society 

 for the Study of Comparative Psychology 

 in Montreal has not existed in vain. 



Wesley Mills. 



McGiLL University. 



PABEIA8AUBIA SEELEY {COTYLOSAUBIA 

 COPE) FROM THE TEIASSIC OF GERMANY. 

 The first notice on Triassio Pareiasauria 

 was published in 1857 by Professor Fischer, 

 of Freiburg in Breisgau, based on notes 

 received from the eminent paleontologist 

 Hermann von Meyer, to whom he had sent 

 the specimen for examination. The title 

 of the paper is : Uber Sclerosaurus armatus 

 H. V. Meyer, eine neue Saurier-Gattung 

 aus dem Bunten Sandstein bei Warmbach 

 gegeniiber Rheinfelden. Hierzu Tafel III 



