Record Number: 33921
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I was seriously alarmed at the beginning of this enquiry [into the memory of smells] by reading in McCosh: "When the organs of taste and smell, supposed by Ferrier to be at the back of the head, are diseased or out of order, the reproduction of the corresponding sensations may be indistinct"'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Field naturalist, author
Religion:Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only
Country of Origin:Argentina
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated
Genre:Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon and New York, 1860; possibly rev. ed., 1872
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33921
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:n/a
Title:Idle Days in Patagonia
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1923
Vol:n/a
Page:241
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Idle Days in Patagonia, (London, 1923), p. 241, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33921, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
In this passage Hudson not only explicitly mentions reading McCosh but also mentions Ferrier Locke, and Cuvier in the same context and quotes at length from Alexander Bain's "The Senses and the Intellect" (1855). Hudson was remembering particular scents of plants and trees from his Argentinian childhood, while writing his memoir and seems to have read at least some of all the authors mentioned.
