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smell in the deaf-blind, or in dogs distinguished 

 for 'nose,' but that the ability of drawing fine dis- 

 tinctions is higher, or what is probably the same 

 thing, the power of concentration is greater." 

 Mr. Wade has probably devoted more time and 

 research to the problem of scent than any other 

 man in this country, and says : "Mankind has as 

 high an ability for recognition of various scents 

 as any hound ever had, or ever will have, as the 

 almost universal exhibition of this in those who 

 are both deaf and blind demonstrates it. Katie 

 McGirr, a young woman of a class of twenty-four 

 blind mutes, knows when a friend comes any- 

 where near her, and I have been amused by her 

 restlessness when I come near and her final in- 

 quiring if I am not near by. Once I asked her 

 who was in the room besides myself, and she im- 

 mediately named the two parties, each of whom 

 was at least ten feet distant. Linnie Haguewood 

 went to the bath, taking her own towels with her; 

 but when they were taken away by mistake, and 

 she got the towels that were there before she 

 came, she insisted that her towels be brought back 

 to her (all the towels were identical). James 

 Mitchell, the first deaf and blind person whose 

 case was investigated by competent observers, 

 knew all his friends by their smell, and even made 

 his likes and dislikes on the basis of the smell of 

 individuals." 



I have recently read an article by a French- 



