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case of a member of my family circle, who possesses the power 
to move her ears in an unusual degree. More curious still, 
when she wishes to listen intently she instinctively moves her 
ears, so that she actually and literally “pricks up”? her ears in 
order to catch a sound. I have noticed that the upper portion 
of the ear is moved from the lower, though the whole ear is 
elevated.* The upper posterior part of the ear is moved 
towards the head, and the anterior part of the helix is moved 
forwards as well as slightly projected. There was also a 
circular movement of the whole ear. [As Professor Harker 
informed me that it had been stated the human ear could not 
be moved without the scalp, we arranged an exhibition for 
him showing that the ears could be moved quite independently. | 
The senses of hearing, sight, and smell are possessed by 
Man, especially civilised Man, in a very inferior condition, 
merely because it is not of vital necessity that these senses 
should be kept at the high level of efficiency maintained by 
the agency of Natural Selection in the case of wild animals. 
That animals use the sense of smell more than sight in recog- 
nition of anything is proved by the way in which a dog 
recognises his master, and an ewe her lamb. The dog recog- 
nising the master tends to shew that each individual of the 
human species possesses a scent peculiar to himself,t although 
we are not able to recognise more than a general odour.{ It 
would appear, however, that children have the sense of smell 
more developed than their elders; and they make use of it like 
animals. They are very particular not to wear each others 
clothes, which they declare to stink; but one of my girls, if 
asked whether a certain one of the various night-shirts be hers 
or not, does not recognise it by sight or touch, but says: ‘“ Dib 
* The top part of the ear is elevated between three and four mm. 
+ There are probably also racial peculiarities of smell—Chinese asserting that 
the smell of Europeans is most distasteful to them ; the Europeans returning 
the compliment. 
+ Negroes and Indians, however, can recognise persons in the dark by their 
odour, (Darwin, “ Descent of Man.” ) 
