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THE

PASSIONS OF ANIMALS.

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LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE.

THE subject of the following pages has been treated of, to some extent and in various ways, by other English writers; but it has not, as the Author believes, been put into the condensed form in which he has attempted to present it. In collecting his materials, he has spared neither labour nor research, and he is indebted for much valuable matter to the numerous writers and travellers whose works he has quoted; particularly to Dr. Schmarda, whose little work, entitled "Andeutungen aus dem Seelenleben der Thiere," he met with when travelling in Germany three or four years since; and, though he had at that time made some progress in his contemplated work, he felt that Dr. Schmarda had so completely embodied the plan he had in view, that he could not do better than adapt his own ideas to the Doctor's arrangement, to whose text he is also much indebted.

In the choice of anecdotes, illustrative of the various Passions of Animals, the author has endeavoured to

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