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I RECENTLY received a letter from Mons. J. C. Houzeau, the author of the “Etudes sur les Facultés Mentales des Animaux comparées a celles de l'Homme,” published at Mons, Belgium, in 1872, and reviewed by Mr. Wallace in NATURE of October 10, 1872. The latter eminent writer asserts that M. Houzeau's work “contains a mass of curious facts, acute observations, and sound reasoning, which fully entitle its author to take high rank among philosophical naturalists” (p. 471). I quite agree with him in his estimate of M. Houzeau's labours, being disposed to place his two volumes of “Etudes” on a par with the works of Mr. Darwin; and with another work, which, while little, if at all, known i this country, deserves, nevertheless, the highest consideration at the hands of all interested in comparative psychology—the “Traité de la Folie des Animaux de ses Rapports avec celle de l'Homme,” by Dr. Pierquin, published in Paris (in 2 vols.), so long ago as 1839.
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LINDSAY, W. Mind in the Lower Animals. Nature 8, 91–92 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008091a0
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