" (G. Elliot Smith, in
_Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological
Series of Comparative Anatomy Contained in the Museum of the
Royal College of Surgeons of England_, second edition, vol. ii.)
A full statement of Elliot Smith's investigations, with diagrams,
is given by Bullen, _Journal of Mental Science_, July, 1899. It
may be added that the whole subject of the olfactory centres has
been thoroughly studied by Elliot Smith, as well as by Edinger,
Mayer, and C.L. Herrick. In the _Journal of Comparative
Neurology_, edited by the last named, numerous discussions and
summaries bearing on the subject will be found from 1896 onward.
Regarding the primitive sense-organs of smell in the various
invertebrate groups some information will be found in A.B.
Griffiths's _Physiology of the Invertebrata_, Chapter XI.
The predominance of the olfactory area in the nervous system of the
vertebrates generally has inevitably involved intimate psychic
associations between olfactory stimuli and the sexual impulse. For most
mammals not only are all sexual associations mainly olfactory, but the
impressions received by this sense suffice to dominate all others.
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