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IN your issue of September 22 there is a paragraph among the notes (p. 510) with reference to “Clever Hans,” a “thinking horse” at present displaying his powers in Berlin. With reference to it I wish to say that twelve or thirteen years ago there was on exhibition in the Royal Aquarium, London, a horse of, if I mistake not, exactly the same stamp. I happened to be then attending lectures at the Royal College of Science, and I went to see the animal. I had, moreover, a long conversation with his trainer, who eventually let me see exactly how it was all accomplished.
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MEEHAN, J. The Berlin “Thinking” Horse. Nature 70, 602–603 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070602c0
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