# Animal Intelligence: Author's Note

> George J. Romanes, 1882. Section 1 of 20 of the book, from the Operant Conditioning Library.

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## Author's Note

I have recently learnt from the publishers of the 'International Scientific Series' that they have made arrangements with Sir John Lubbock to bring out in the same series a work of his on Ants and Bees. Necessarily, therefore, the material to be dealt with in his work will to a large extent overlap that which is presented by my chapters on the same insects; but after consulting with the publishers, and also with Sir John Lubbock, it has seemed to me undesirable to omit these chapters on account of the circumstances here stated. For, on the one hand, the facts will not lose their value from being twice told; and on the other, it is desirable that the present member of the Series should form in itself, so far as its Author can make it, a complete *résumé* of all the more important facts of *Animal Intelligence*.

BY  
GEORGE J. ROMANES, M. A., LL. D., F. R. S.,  
ZOOLOGICAL SECRETARY OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY.  
NEW YORK:  
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,  
1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET.  
1884.