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says: "One of the curious sights of my notice in this con- 

 nection was the sly, artful and insidious advances of reynard at 

 Tolstoi Mees, St. George, where conspicuous and elegant in its 

 fluffy white dress, it cunningly stretches on its back as though 

 dead, making no sign of life whatever, save to gently hoist its 

 thick brush now and then ; whereupon many dull and curious sea 

 birds {Gracultes bicristatus) in their intense desire to know all 

 about it flew in narrowing circles overhead, lower and lower, 



sudden spring and a pair of quick snapping jaws." 



Who shall say after this exhibition of craftiness that animals 

 are free from deceit, or that birds are less consumed by the fire of 

 curiosity than their allies, the featherless bipeds. 



4. Training. — Where experiments are made upon the same 

 animal repeatedly, we may suppose that it becomes, in a measure, 

 trained. 



It comes to learn what is expected of it, and in the case of the 

 more intelligent animals, as the dog, there is added a desire to 



At the meeting of the Intern. Medical Congress held in London, 

 Aug., 1 88 1, Professor Goltz, of Strassburg, exhibited a dog with 

 certain portions of the cerebrum removed, and from the effects 

 upon the animal, argued against the theory of Professor Ferrier as to 

 certain localizations in the brain. In the course of the discussion, 

 however, it was developed that the actions of the dog were in a 

 great measure due to an unconscious training on the part of his 

 master, Professor Goltz, who had so often exhibited the animal 

 that he had come to know what was expected of him. 



5. Changes in the condition of the blood.— Another element of 

 influence also in the experiments upon fowls, is the interference 



: produced by the forcible compression 



of the 



chest walls. In this way proper aeration of the blood 



take place, and the accumulation of venous blood in the nerve 



centers produces a sort of lethargy. 



wounded birds by compressing the thorax, this method not in- 

 juring the plumage ; and they are familiar with the condition first 

 of violent struggles, then of lethargy and finally of insensibility, 

 before death is complete. Frequently -when the bird is appa- 

 rently lifeless, life returns when the compression is too soon 

 removed. 



