FOOTNOTES:
[53] H. Beauregard, _Matiere Medicale Zooelogique: Histoire des Drogues
d'origine Animate_, 1901.
[54] Professor Plateau, of Ghent, has for many years carried on a series
of experiments which would even tend to show that insects are scarcely
attracted by the colors of flowers at all, but mainly influenced by a
sense which would appear to be smell. His experiments have been recorded
during recent years (from 1887) in the _Bulletins de l'Academie Royale de
Belgique_, and have from time to time been summarized in _Nature_, e.g.,
February 5, 1903.
[55] David Sharp, _Cambridge Natural History: Insects_, Part II, p. 398.
[56] Mantegazza, _Fisiologia dell' Amore_, 1873, p. 176.
[57] Mantegazza (_L'Amour dans l'Humanite_, p. 94) refers to various
peoples who practice this last custom. Egypt was a great centre of the
practice more than 3000 years ago.
[58] Hagen, _Sexuelle Osphresiologie_, 1901, p. 226. It has been suggested
to me by a medical correspondent that one of the primitive objects of the
hair, alike on head, mons veneris, and axilla, was to collect sweat and
heighten its odor to sexual ends.
[59] The names of all our chief perfumes are Arabic or Persian: civet,
musk, ambergris, attar, camphor, etc.
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