Conscious accompaniments of certain organic changes, 42;
aspect of instructive behaviour, 99
Consciousness, as accompaniment and as guide, 34;
effective, defined, 43;
as heir to organic estate, 52;
as epiphenomenon, 306
Consentience, 53, 62
Consonance of biological and psychological end, 286, 316
Constancy of environment leads to stereotyped behaviour, 173
Continuity in evolution, 324;
threefold aspect of, 329
Control, the sign of effective consciousness, 43
Co-ordinated acts, 69, 100;
inherited, 94, 95
Corporate behaviour, 14
Courtship in animals, 259
Coyness of female birds, 264 ff.
Cranial sense-organs, 301
Crayfish, reflex action in, 298
Creation, special, 297
Criteria of effective consciousness, 43;
of intelligence, 120
Cruelty in cat, 277
Cuckoo, instinct of nestling, 90
D
DARWIN, Charles, fig. of sun-dew leaf, 26;
of Venus’s fly-trap, 27;
of catasetum, 31;
on earthworms, 158;
on social life of animals, 225;
on human ancestry, 229;
on play and practise, 259;
on sexual selection, 262 ff.;
on law of battle, 313
DAVIS, Prof. Ainsworth, on limpets, 156
DEAN, Dr. Bashford, on chick swimming, 85
Deceit in animals, 280
Deferred instincts, 70
Definiteness of instinctive behaviour, 66
Description, involves relational terms, 202
_Didunculus_, changed habits in, 221
Differentiation and integration of nerve-centres, 167
Disintegration of instincts, 176
Diving, instinctive, 86
Dog, observations on, intelligence of, 141 ff., 152, 200, 271, 322
Duckling, inherited co-ordination in, 96
_Dytiscus_, instinct of, 104
E
Earthworms, Darwin’s observations on, 158 ff.
Education in play, 255, 320 ff.
Effective consciousness defined, 43
Efferent and afferent impulses, 32, 101
Egg, cell-division in, 14
EIMER, Th., on instincts of solitary wasps, 73;
on origin of instincts, 108
Emotions, and feelings, 235 ff.;
psychological nature of, 246;
evolution of, 282
Energy stored in cell, 23
Equilibrium, tendency to, 296
_Eristalis_, mimicry of, 164
ESPINAS, Prof., on social life of animals, 230
Ethics, animal, 270
Evolution of organic behaviour, 35;
of consciousness, 61;
of instinctive behaviour, 106;
of intelligent behaviour, 155;
of social behaviour, 225;
of feeling and emotion, 282;
of animal behaviour, 295;
as continuous, 324 ff.
Experience, of value for future guidance, 44;
is it inherited? 48, 97;
condensation of, 163
Experimentation, 251, 253
Explanation, characteristic of later phases of mental development,
58, 257
Explosive nature of cell, 21
Expression of emotions, 247
External stimuli to instinctive behaviour, 102
F
FABRE on behaviour of _Sphex_, 77, 172;
of _Chalicodoma_, 78, 129;
of _Leucopsis_, 79;
of _Pompilus_, 129
Faculty, instinctive, 64
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