190 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES issi- 



(6) More generally, do you regard your own dis- 

 position as (a) strong, determined, and self-reliant ; 

 (b) nervous, shrinking, and despondent ; or (c) medium 

 in this respect ? 



(7) Should you say that in your character the 

 intellectual or the emotional predominates ? Does 

 your intellect incline to abstract or concrete ways of 

 thought ? Is it theoretical, practical, or both ? Are 

 your emotions of the tender or heroic order, or both ? 

 Are your tastes in any way artistic, and, if so, in what 

 way, and with what strength ? 



(8) What is your age or occupation ? Can you 

 trace any change in your feelings with regard to death 

 as having taken place during the course of your 

 life? 



(9) If ever you have been in danger of death, what 

 were the circumstances, and what your feehngs ? 



(10) Eemarks. 



(Signature.) ^ 



This communication well exemplifies the spirit in 

 which Mr. Eomanes approached the problems of 

 animal faculty. He spent, indeed, much time and 

 labour in collecting and classifying the observations 

 and anecdotes which he pubHshed in ' Animal Intelli- 

 gence ' ; but he lost no opportunities of observing and 

 experimenting for himself. In this, as in other 

 departments of inquiry, his constant effort was to be 

 in direct and immediate touch with facts. His 

 observations on his own dogs, especially those which 

 he published in his article^ on ' Fetichism in Animals,' 

 wherein he describes the effects on a terrier of the 

 apparent coming to life of a dry bone which the dog 

 had been playing with, and to which a fine thread 



' I have not been able to discover any answer to these. 

 * Nature, vol. xvii. p. 168. 



