I see in current number of Popular Science some proceedings of a hornet in the management of a dead locust, as related by Professor Thomas Meehan, and am thus reminded of a similar incident I observed last summer. I was making a path, when a large hornet, carrying a locust whose weight was rather too much for him, fell exhausted just by me. He dropped his victim and withdrew to a stone, where he sat for some time rubbing his head and considering the situation. Getting himself together again, he caught the locust by the head and began to drag him along the path, but soon found he would not get home before Christmas at that rate, so he left his game again and flew off to find a spear of timothy stout enough to bear his weight at the top. Several seemed to hold him up fairly well, but still he was not suited, and I could only suppose him a hornet too irresolute and weak-minded to manage his affairs prop erly, until it occurred to me that he was searching for a stem that would bear both himself and the locust. At last he found what he needed, laboriously pulled up his prey, gave a spring and a buzz, and was off, bearing with him his locust and and my profound respect.

Philadelphia.

[The communication in the first instance was made by Mr. Meehan some years ago, to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the fact quoted among a number of others by the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in his annual address at the recent New York meeting. Another parallel case has since been placed on record - this making the third.

The three highest mental attributes are here portrayed: perception, reasoning, judgment.

In view of these experiences it becomes extremely difficult to draw the line between mind in man and mind in animals. We may call the one instinct, but calling it instinct does not make the explanation clearer. - Ed. G. M].