Mind in the Lower Animals

Abstract

DR. LAUDER LINDSAY has long been known as a contributor to periodical literature in the province of comparative psychology. The work which he now publishes with the above title clearly represents a great amount of labour. It is in two large octavo volumes which, together present somewhat over 1,000 pages, and contain references to the writings of about 200 authors. It is furnished with an excellent index and a bibliography. The latter, we are told, is “confined to works consulted by the author,” and “almost exclusively to those published in Britain and in the English language.” The work is also furnished with a long “enumeration of the animals whose character and habits form the basis of the author's generalisations.” The list includes 908 species belonging to 516 genera, both the popular and the scientific names being in every case supplied.

Mind in the Lower Animals in Health and Disease.

By W. Lauder Lindsay (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1879.)