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At the meeting of the Linnean Society on Thurday, April 19, Sir John Lubbock read a paper on this subject. Some years ago M. Paul Bert made a series of interesting experiments with the common Daphnia, or water-flea, which is so abundant in our ditches and pools. He exposed them to light of different colours, and he thought himself justified in concluding from his observations that their limits of vision at both ends of the spectrum are the same as our own, being limited by the red at one end, and the violet at the other.
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On the Sense of Colour Amongst Some of the Lower Animals 1 . Nature 27, 618 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027618a0
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