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APROPOS the statement made in NATURE of July 14, p. 54, that the lost scent of musk (Mimulus moschatus) was first noticed in Britain in 1909—an oft-quoted statement—I think the following reference ought to be put on more permanent record. Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, a native of Lancashire, now a Fifeshire farmer, some sixty years ago began growing musk for the Liverpool market. He soon had a monopoly of the trade and sold 5,000 plants a week during the months of May. In 1898, he stated, he noticed the plants began to acquire a rank, leafy smell, and at the end of the summer he sold his business. Four years later he returned to Liverpool and found the musk plants then on sale scentless.
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HARDY, E. Lost Fragrance of Musk. Nature 134, 327 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134327c0
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