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Where in the series, wheth^ first, second, or only ohild, is another
determinative influence. My second child gives promise of excel-
his sister because of her attention, example, etc.
[I make a very incomplete account of this baby of three months.]

c. The question as to the earliest exhibition of consciousness,
seems to me a little ambiguous. Conscious of honger, of the differ*
eaee between arms and &e bed, oertalnly,— yet I doubt that being
the meaning of the question.
My first child, at five months, moving her finger over a play-
thing, heard the scratching sound thereby occasioned, stopped and
listened, repeating till she had evidently clearly established th^
relation between the motion and the sound. This X have been
accustomed to consider her first intelligent act, yet she had long
before learned to distinguish between her mother and other attend-
ants.
Medical worics give six to ten hours as the earliest time at which
hearing is possible, but my boy, bom at 1.30, certainly heard, and
nervously started at the sound of the cock crowing at 4.80.
