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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 feelings ? 



(10) Remarks. 



(Signature.) 



This communication well exemplifies the spirit in 

 which Mr. Romanes approached the problems of 

 animal faculty. He spent, indeed, much time and 

 labour in collecting and classifying the observations 

 and anecdotes which he published 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 1 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 

 had been attached, and those which dealt with the 

 power of tracking their master by scent, 2 further 

 exemplify his careful methods and his resort, wher- 

 ever possible, to experimental conditions. His ob- 

 servations, too, on the ' homing ' of bees, 3 by which 

 he showed that the insects find their way back 

 to the hive through their experience of the topo- 

 graphy and by knowledge of landmarks, rather 

 than through any mysterious innate faculty or sense 

 of direction, are the work of a scientific observer, 



1 Nature, vol. xvii. p. 168. 2 Ibid. vol. xxxvi. p. 273. 



3 Ibid. vol. xxxii. p. 630. 



