ORGAN OF HEARING. 



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elastic membrane like the drum in Ihe human ear 

 is tensely stretched* Fabriciust and Cavalini j, in- 

 deed, term this the drum {iympajuion) : Scarpa calls 

 it the window of the vestibule. But be this as it may, 

 the nerves of hearing; are expanded upon the interior, 

 and are intimately connected with the antennae. 



Ear, &c. of the crab. 



a a, the ears, from ibe base of which the antennae, 

 b b, arise ; c, the palpii. 



According to this view of the matter, the antennae 

 of crabs and lobsters, and by analogy in insects, may 

 perform something- of the same ofhce as Laennec's 

 instrument called the Stethoscope, which medical 

 men use for assisting the ear to ascertain the sounds 

 produced within the chest by breathing, speaking, 

 the beating of the heart, and other organic move- 

 ments. The stethoscope magnifies these sounds, and 

 gives facility and precision of listening. 



* Scarpa de Auditu, pp.' 2, 3. f Nye Skrifter, ii, 376, 



J Lehmanu de Sensibus Jixternis; p.'iiS, 



