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IT was because of my knowledge of facts like those named by “E. H. K.” that I was surprised at the apparent inability of moths to smell ammonia. Being no physiologist, I ventured to draw no inferences; but it occurred to me to wonder whether the sense of smell differs in kind with different organisations; whether, for instance, some substances strongly odorous to us may be quite inodorous to insects, and vice versâ.
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C., J. Smell and Hearing in Moths. Nature 17, 82 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017082b0
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