The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-08-10
THE SENSES OF FISHES.
EVIDENCE THAT THEY HAVE At
least TWO MORE THAN NAN.

"Magnettc Dermnl Scnsen-Through
the Latter Fishes Feel the Approach
of storms and Can Seek safety--ob-
servers Who DO Not Agree with DIR.
Edinger, the Naturalist, In His Low
Dunn's Theory-seth Green's Evi
dence of Fish Memory.
The opinion expressed by the German
naturalist, DR.. Edinger, that fishes
have no memory and few of the senses
possessed by creatures of a higher or
ganism and none Of these in an acute
degree, opens an interesting subject, as
to which there are many curious theo-
ries. both professional and from the
standpoint of the lyayman. For in
stance Matthias Dunn, the Cornish
naturalist, after fe-long study of fish
es declares that they possess not only
the five senses belonging to man, but
two additional ones, without which
even man, although he We're equipped
CLtlCl W lSC lOl 4llt al ltIC ItGP Dctt, Nc1iNt
not undertake those mysterious migra-
lions which many kinds of fishes annu-
ally accomplish as a necessary part of
their life plan, and which they would
still accomplish if they We're indeed be-
reft of sight hearing, feeling smell or
touch
Fish have the homing instinct as
we'll as man. says DR., Dunn. and
have their summer and winter homes.
often far apart, If man had no better
mental activities or senses than he now
has the worry consequent on following
these weak sensations would be thou
sand times more perplexing In the sea
than on land" and the intricacies and
difficulties and obstacles of the sea
depths would make the neghborhood
of the home at times a most embarrass-
ing place to find" But the migrating
fish goes to it as unsWervingly as the
needle points to the pole; and 1t Is vir-
tually needle pointing to the pole that
forms the one sense which DR. Dunn
declares enables the fish to locate it's
destination and proceed onward to 1T
with steadiness and persistency. This
sense DR.. Dunn calls the magnetic der
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