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should be completed whilst the creatures still follow 

 their natural mode of life, and before they are domes- 

 ticated or exterminated by the irresistible progress of 

 civilization. 



Sufficient infonnation is, however, not yet collected 

 to enable a comparative psychologist to set to work 

 and systematize the various mental phenomena in 

 the Animal Kingdom, nor would this be the place to 

 do so, even if the materials were at hand. As, how- 

 ever, our object in undertaking this work has been 

 to popularize and give an impetus to the study of 

 science, we shall bring before you a few examples of 

 a gradually progressing miad in animals, dwelling as 

 much as we are able upon the mental properties of 

 our little Bee, and you will see with what intense 

 interest the subject is invested, and how that unity 

 which everywhere presents itself in the visible crea- 

 tion may also be distinctly traced in the invisible 

 world. 



