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Title: Animal Life and Intelligence

Author: C. Lloyd Morgan

Release date: August 29, 2015 [eBook #49818]
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Language: English

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Kentish Plover with Eggs and Young

Kentish Plover with Eggs and Young.
From the Exhibit in the British Natural History Museum.

ANIMAL LIFE AND INTELLIGENCE.

BY

C. LLOYD MORGAN, F.G.S.,

PROFESSOR IN AND DEAN OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL;
LECTURER AT THE BRISTOL MEDICAL SCHOOL;
PRESIDENT OF THE BRISTOL NATURALISTS' SOCIETY, ETC.

AUTHOR OF
"ANIMAL BIOLOGY," "THE SPRINGS OF CONDUCT," ETC.

BOSTON, U. S. A.
GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
1891.


TO
MY FATHER.