Habit and instinct / by C. Lloyd Morgan.

  • C. Lloyd Morgan
Date:
1896
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Credit: Habit and instinct / by C. Lloyd Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. I wish that dedications were still in vogue, so that these pages could be inscribed to all those many friends whose unfailing kindness and courtesy made my visit to the United States so pleasant, when the substance of this volume was delivered as a Lowell Course at Boston, and as lectures in New York, Chicago, and other university centres, during the early part of this year. The reader will doubtless be glad to learn that further observations—and they are much needed—on habit and instinct will probably form part of Prof. Whitman’s work at an experimental station in connection with the Bio- logical Department of Chicago University. Similar observations might also be prosecuted with advantage in some of our own zoological gardens, as was the earnest wish of George Bomanes, to whose influence and encourage- ment I am, like many others, so deeply indebted. A few passages from the Fortnightly Review, Nature, Natural Science, the Monist, and the Humanitarian, may perhaps be recognized. Much of the chapter on Modifica- tion has appeared by request in Science, My best thanks are due to Mr. F. Howard Collins for many valuable suggestions. C. Ll. M. Bristol, October, 1896.
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