Silences And Sounds: Earlids...

INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLID BIBLIOGRAPHY

1900s literature on Earlids, a sampling:

[Anon.] “Reflections: On Paris, London, Nordica and Mahler.” The Musical Courier No. 1424 (July 10, 1907): 5.
[Anon.] “Views, News and Interviews [on Edison].” Electrical Review 38 No. 17 (April 27, 1901): 520.
[Anon.] “Views, News and Interviews [on the telephone].” Electrical Review 38 No. 26 (May 18, 1901): 626.
Abbott, George E. “The Doctor and the Child.” The Southern California Practitioner 22 (1907): 15.
Saleeby, C.W. “Helpless Infancy.” The Academy (28 Jan 1905): 87.

Soundscape Readings on Earlids

Bailey, Peter. "Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Historian Listens to Noise," Body & Society, 2(2) (1996): 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X96002002003
McLuhan, Marshall, and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage (1967/r2001) – on earlids, see p. 111
Meyrs, David G. A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss (2000)
Schafer, R. Murray. The Soundscape (1977/r1994) – see p. 11 on earlids.

Crocodylians and their Earlids, a small sampling:

Bierman, H. S., Thornton, J. L., Jones, H. G., Koka, K., Young, B. A., Brandt, C., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Carr, C. E., & Tollin, D. J. “Biophysics of directional hearing in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis).” The Journal of Experimental Biology, 217.7 (2014): 1094. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.092866.
Montefeltro, F. C., Andrade, D. V., & E. Larsson, H. C. “The evolution of the meatal chamber in crocodyliforms.” Journal of Anatomy, 228.5 (2016): 838-863. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.12439
Wever, E. G. “Hearing in crocodilia.” Protocols of the National Academy of Science, 68.7, (1971): 1498–1500.

Sea Mammals and their Pinnae, a small sampling:

Goncharova, Maria, Yannick Jadoul, College Reichmuth, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Andrea Ravignani, “Vocal Tract Dynamics Shape the Formant Structure of Conditioned Vocalizations in a Harbor Seal.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences vol. 1538, issue 1 (2024): 107-116.
Reichmuth, Colleen, and Caroline Casey. “Vocal Learning in Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses.” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 28 (Oct 2014): 66-71.
Rouse, Andrew A., Peter F. Cook, Edward W. Lage, Collegen Reichmuth. “Beat Keeping in a Sea Lion as Coupled Oscillation: Implications for Comparative Understanding of Human Rhythm.” Frontiers in Neuroscience (2016), DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00257

19^th Century poetic earlids and the Ovid rumor-mill:

Henry, James. “It is just in Heaven to favor so the eyes.” [Poem written while walking from Revere to Verona, July 22 and 23, and in Dresden, Oct. 22, 1865]. Menippea. Dresden: C.C. Meinhold & Sons, 1866, p. 213-14. https://books.google.com/books?id=4G1MAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA213
Ovid Metamorphoses, vol. 2, transl. Frank Justus Miller, The Loeb Classical Library (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1926): vol. 2, pp. 184-185.