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THE sensitivity to sound of different frequencies shown by certain organs of the cricket (the long hair-sensilla on the cercus) and of the locust (tympanal organ and receptor organs distributed over the body) has been determined by Dr. R. J. Pumphrey and A. F. Rawdon-Smith and found to be in some respects more extensive than the human. In particular, the sensitivity of the anal cercus appears greater than the human for the lowest audible frequencies, whilst there are indications that the tympanal organ possesses superhuman sensitivity at the opposite end of the spectrum.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 137, 998 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137998b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137998b0