ABSTRACT
It is generally held that comparative and animal psychology in America got its impetus from the 1895–1896 visit to the United States by the great English comparative psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852–1936). Morgan, whose Introduction to Comparative Psychology had been published in 1894, came primarily to deliver (in Boston) the Lowell Lectures, which were published later in 1896 under the title Habit and Instinct. (On this trip to America, Morgan also gave a lecture at the University of Chicago. It was given on February 7, 1896 to the Biological Club on the subject “The question of the transmission of acquired characteristics”; University of Chicago Annual Register, 1895–1896, p. 177.) It should be noted that Morgan had been trained as a geologist and zoologist.
