Sense of Temperature

Abstract

YOUR correspondent J. T. B. asks for further instances of the cultivation of the sense of temperature. None can be more striking than that of the caste of egg hatchers in Egypt, who determine the temperature in their ovens entirely without the aid of instruments, and maintain it at 100° to 103° Fahr. during the requisite three weeks. How successful they are is shown by the official return for 1831, given by Lane (“Modern Egyptians”, London, 1842, vol. 2, p. 5, et seq.) from whom I take these particulars. Out of a total of 26,204,500 eggs artificially incubated, 17,418,973 were successfully hatched.