EEPORT ON THE AMPHIPODA. 525 



1880. UliANIN, B. 



Untersucliungen liber Blastoderm- unci Keimblatterbildung bei Orchestia 

 Montagui und Mediterranea. Zoologischer Anzeiger. III. pp. 163-165. 1880. 

 (Verhandl. d. zoolog. sect. d. VI. Versamml. russisch. Naturf. u. Aerzte.) 



The results of the investigation are here given in summary. There is a notice of this paper by 

 P. Mayer in Zoolog. Jahresher. (1880), II. Abt., pp. 53, 54. 1880. An account of the 

 investigation was published in extenso in 1881. See Note on Ulianin under that date. 



1880? Weber, Max. 



Uber den Bau und die Thatigkeit der sogenanuten Leber der Crustaceen. 

 Archiv fur mikroskopische Anatomie. XVII. Bonn, 18801 pp. 385-457. 

 Pis. XXXVI-XXXVIII. 



" M. Weber has examined histologically and cliemically, and described the so-called liver of 

 terrestrial, fre.sliwater, subterraneous, littoral, and truly marine species of different orders, 

 viz.: — several Oiiiscidx, including the blind Tijphloniscus steini, Asellus aquaficus, and the 

 subterraneous A. cavatieus, Gammarus pulex, fluviatilis, ■puteanus, marinus, and locusta, 

 Talitrus and Orchestia, and Asiacxis fluviatilis. He comes to the conclusion that in the 

 Decapoda, Amphipoda, and Isopoda, this gland is tubular and contains at least two sorts of 

 cells, one of which secretes a fluid acting as a ferment (enzyme) on albuminous substances, 

 and the other a pigment allied with a fatty substance and cholestearin, serving for the 

 emulsion for fat. He calls the first ferment-cells, the second liver-ceUs, and the whole 

 organ ' hepato-pancreas,' as it combines the function of the liver and that of the true 

 digestive glands of the Vertebrates. During the embryonal stage the liver is developed 

 and active in the Crustacea, as in the Feriebrafa, which proves that its function is not 

 only digestion, but also excretion. In some Amphipods and Decapods, there is a third sort 

 of cells, probably reserve-ceUs, which are destined to supply, if necessary, the others." (Dr. 

 von Martens, Zool. Eecord for 1880. He says there is an abstract also in the Journal of 

 the Eoyal Microscopical Society, iii. p. 424.) 



1881. Buckley, Arabella B. 



Life and ber Children. Fifth Thousand. London. 1881. 



In a popular account of the Crustacea, pp. 153-177, the expression "insects of the sea" for 

 these animals is approved and adopted. The figure, 57. C, to which the name Caprella is 

 assigned, really represents Proto ventricosa, 0. F. Mliller. 



1881. Delage, Yves. 



Contribution ^ I'etude de I'appareil circulatoire des Crustaces edriophthalmes 



marins. Paris, 1881. pp. 173. 12 Plates. From Arch, de Zool. Exp. et Gen. 



Vol. IX. 1881. 



This admirably lucid essay discusses the subject successively in regard to the Isopoda, Amphi- 

 poda, Lsemodipoda, and Tanaidae. An account is given of the ingenious methods of 



