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The nerve elements demand the skillful use of silver and methylene blue. 

 The combined maceration and section method outlined in the last chap- 

 ter is useful in studying the retina and visual epithelia of many eyes. 

 For the more general histological relations the ordinary paraffin sections 

 will do when the eye is one of the simple ones whose tissues are homo- 

 geneous. In perhaps the majority of cases, however, the lens acts as a 

 formidable obstacle to the securing of perfect or even fair sections. The 

 lens can seldom be softened, and the best way is to remove it by careful 

 dissection after the tissue is fixed and before the embedding has been 

 begun. With the lens removed very good general sections can be cut, 

 especially in celloidin, in which case, however, the sections are apt to be 

 too thick. In the arthropod eye the difficulty is not the lens but the 

 cuticle, and this is not so formidable an obstacle. The cuticle can some- 

 times be removed, especially when it is very thick. At other times it 

 can be cut in the case of a thin-shelled or newly moulted animal. For 

 general studies of the tissues Zenker's fluid or chrom-aceto-formol is 

 the best. For a good picture of the retina Flemming's strong fixative 

 or some other fluid containing osmic acid is the best. 



LITERATURE 



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1884. 



SHARP, B. "The Eyes of Lamellabranchiata," Mi. zu Neapel, 1886. 

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PFEFFER, W. "Die Sehorgane der Seesterne," Zool. Jahrb., Band XIV, 1901. 

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CAJAL, RAMON Y. .."Le Retine des Vertebres," La Cellule,, Vol. IX, 1893. 

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THE OLFACTORY AND GUSTATORY NERVE TISSUES 



The olfactory and gustatory nerve cells form a comparatively small 

 group of perceptory neurons, which are distinguished from the others by 

 the fact that they can receive impressions directly from the atoms and 

 molecules of some substances that have been dissolved in the atmosphere 



