Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
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Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]
and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Thanks to CD his candidature for the Zoological Society has been entertained.
Observed a flamingo, at the Zoological Gardens, that vomited on a bustard in answer to the latter’s harsh cries.