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IT would be interesting to know more details of the research carried out by Mr. J. P. O'Hea on the “so-called eyes in insects and arachnida” (NATURE, April 14, p. 498, in connexion with Commander Hilton Young's suggestion), from which he arrives at the surprising conclusion that “the organs generally known as eyes do not act as organs of vision”. The species Mr. O'Hea mentions are the house-fly, red ants, Tegenaria domestica, and “many of the Epeiræ”. We have here an assortment of which the power, and even manner, of vision are scarcely comparable.
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LOCKET, G. Tactile Vision of Insects and Arachnida. Nature 111, 570–571 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111570b0
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