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ORDINARY MEETING, March 2nd, 1868. 
The Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A., Vice-President, • in the 
Chair. 
The Minutes of last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The names of the following new members were then announced, viz. : — 
Kev. A. Hewlett, D.D. Oxon, Yicar of Astley, near Manchester ; E. C. 
Gooddy, Esq., The Edge, near Meltham, Huddersfield ; Wm. Mewburn, 
Esq., Wykham Park, Banbury. 
It was also stated that the undermentioned book had been presented to 
the Library, viz. : — 
The A uthorship of the Practical Electric Telegraph of Great Britain. By the 
Kev. T. F. Cooke, M.A. From the Author. 
The following Paper was then read by the Secretary 
ON COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. By E. J. Morshead, 
Esq., lion. Foreign Sec.., Viet. Inst. 
T HERE is no doubt that man, as an animal, physiologically 
considered, is superior to the other members of the 
animal creation ; but the superiority of his physical organization 
alone is not sufficient to justify us in assigning to him a 
separate place in Nature. He is subject to the same general 
laws ; he is born ; he develops into maturity ; he eats, 
drinks, propagates his species, and dies ; and so far he is 
nothing more or less than an animal. 
Now all animals, man included, being subject to more or 
less similar conditions of nutrition, reproduction, &c., are more 
or less similar in structure, with such variations in the case of 
the lower animals as may suit them to fulfil the offices they 
have to discharge in the natural economy. The causes of 
sensation afforded by the world which they inhabit in common 
with ourselves being invariable, their organs of sensation are 
formed on the same principles as ours ; having the same rela- 
tion to space and matter, they are furnished with suitable 
organs of locomotion, — and so forth. 
It therefore follows, necessarily, that, inasmuch as all 
animals — at least all vertebrate animals,— while resembling 
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