Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1911 — Fishes Don’t Need Ears to Hear. [ARTICLE]

Fishes Don’t Need Ears to Hear.

Just because fishes haven’t ears is no reason why they can’t hear, according to Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, professor of physicß in Clark university, who recently opened a-series of lectures on "Sound in Speech and Music” at the University of Pennsylvania. \ Doctor Webster declared that sound Is motion. “The outside of the ear,” he said, “is not necessary'jo hearing. It is possible to hear through the teeth. This can easily be proved by putting a pencil between the teeth and holding It on the sounding board of a piano. “Thqre has been much discussion as to whether flßh can hear. Some persons have declared that fish cannof distinguish sounds because they have no ears, but sound is motion, and as long as vibrations reach the inside of fishes’ heads it makes no difference whether they have ear orifices -or not.”