From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2
Summary:
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."