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Sense of Direction THE perusal of the correspondence published in the February and March numbers of NATURE now to hand, and also, your article on “Perception and Instinct in the Lower Animals,” in the number of March 20, has induced a belief in my mind, that I may perhaps be able to contribute some evidence bearing upon the question at issue; and also that it may have sonic value from having been obtained from a field of observation not generally accessible, and from the fact that cattle and horses in Australia are subject to very different conditions to those obtaining in England.

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HOWITT, A., NAPIER, R. Instinct. Nature 8, 322–324 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008322c0

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