Abstract
THIS excellent book deals with sight and hearing and does not include any reference to touch, taste and smell. Dr. Rawdon-Smith gives the reason for this in his introduction. He writes, “It would be safe to say that no theory of general sensibility has yet been proposed which is able to describe the available data… We may note in the fields of olfaction and gustation not that the theoretical position is insecure, but simply that no theoretical position exists.”
Theories of Sensation
By Dr. A. F. Rawdon-Smith. (Cambridge Biological Studies.) Pp. xiii + 137. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1938.) 10s. 6d. net.
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HARTRIDGE, H. Theories of Sensation. Nature 144, 94–95 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144094b0
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