Hunting by Scent

Abstract

THE vagrant nature of odours would seem to be symbolized by a word-errant in search of a meaning. Scent, for example, according to a dictionary, signifies“odoriferous particles, odour, smell, fragrance ; a class or one of a class of sweet-smelling, aromatic substances used for perfuming ; sense of smell ; odour left by the animal on the ground or surface passed over”. It is the latter meaning that is mainly implied in the title of Major Pollard's book. He discusses principally the relatively complex conditions which control the diffusion of scent, and has worked out a simple instrument which will tell the hunting man the chance of scent on any day.

The Mystery of Scent

By Hugh B. C. Pollard. Pp. xix + 139. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1937.) 10s. 6d. net.