SOURCE: A review of Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies, in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 7, March 28, 1912, pp. 193-94.

In the following review, Washburn praises Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies.

All psychologists will be glad to have Thorndike's experimental work on the intelligence of animals brought together in this convenient form. The thesis on “Animal Intelligence,” which was for many of us the first intimation that a real science of comparative psychology was possible, has been for some time out of print. It is here reprinted, together with the paper on “The Instinctive Reactions of Young Chicks,” the “Note on the Psychology of Fishes,” and the monograph on “The Mental Life of the Monkeys.” To these papers there have been added an introductory chapter, an essay on “Laws and Hypotheses of Behavior,” and one on “The Evolution of the Human Intellect.”

It is the new chapters, of course, that demand...