OYSTER BTBLIOGKAPHY. 309 



1808 — Chrisolm, C. On the j)oison of lish. < Kdinljurgli Medical iind Surgical 

 Journal, Edinburgh. October, 1808, vol. IV, pp. 391-422. 



On pp. 400-401 a case is reviewed in which certain persons suffered " cholera and excru- 

 ciating tormina'' after eating of oysters that grow on tlie copper shoaihiug of a sunken 

 ship. 



1814 — Home, Everard. The digestive organs of the oyster. <^ Home's Lectures 

 on Comparative Anatomy, London, 1814, vol. Ii, p. 77. 



Locates and describes the mouth, stomach, intestines, anus, and ;i(Uluctor nuiscle of the 

 Ostica edulis. 



1827— Home, Everard. The mode by whicli the propagation of the species iscarried 

 on in the connnon oyster and the large fresh-water muscle. Croonian lec- 

 ture for 1826. Read November 17, 1826. < Philo.sophical Transactions, 

 London, 1827, pp. 39^8, plates in-vi. 



Discusses with much detail, on pp. 41-44, the anatomy and ri'production of Ottrea edulis. 

 The plates indicate the location.s of tlie several organs, and the various stages in the 

 df-vcli)]iment of the ovaries and young oy.sters. See 1828. 



1828 — Home, Everard. Development of the ova of the common oyster. <^ Home's 

 Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, London, 1828, vol. \i. 

 A reprint of 1827. 

 1836— Deshayes, G. P. Conchifera. <Todd'8 Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology, London, 18.36, vol. i. 

 Treats of the anatomy of the oyster. 

 1837a — Garner, Robert. On the nervous system of molluscous animals. <; Trans- 

 actions of the LinuiTean Society of Loudon. Loudon, 1837, vol. xvii, 

 pp. 485-501, plate xxiv. 



The special feature of this article i.s the author's reference to tlie visual powers of 

 oysters. "In Pecten, Spondylus, and Ostrea we find small, brilliant, emerald-like ocelli, 

 ■which from their structure, having each a minute nerve, a pupil, a pigmentum, a striated 

 body, and a lens, and from their situation at the edge of the mantle, where alone such 

 organs could bo useful, and also placed as in Gasteropoda, with the tentacles, must be 

 organs of vi.sion." 



The question of the aljility of oysters to see has also been answered in the affirmative 

 by "Will (in Froriep's Neue Notizen, No. 622), who states th.at there are as many as 30 

 distinct eyes projecting from the border of the mantle. But Siebold denies that such i.s 

 the case, and regards the so-called eyes as simply excrescences devoid of optical powers. 

 There can, however, be little doubt that these mollusks are sensitive to light. For fiu-ther 

 information on tliis interesting subject see Mitt, aus der Zool. Stat, zu Neapel, vol. VI, 

 1860; Froriep'.s Neue Notizon, Kos. 622 and 623; Siebold's Anatomy of the Invertebrata. 

 Boston, 1854, vol. 1, pp. 201-202; and The Eye of Pecten, by Sydney J. Hickson, Studi.-e 

 fiom the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, Part u, 1882, pp. 1-12. 



1837 b— Anonymous. The 03'ster. <Pe;iny Magazine, London, June 24, 1837, vol. 



VI. pp. 235-2.38. 



A (le.scripti<m of the oyster industry of Great Hritain with notes on the natural history 

 of the oyster. 



1838 a— N C. Acrustaceous tour; by the Irish Oyster-Eater. < Blackwood's ' 



i:dinburgh Magazine, Edinbingh, Noveml)er, 1838, vol. 44, pp. 637-649. 

 A humorous discussion of the Irish oyster beds and their products. 

 1838 b— Anonymous. An essay on oysters. <Colbnrn'8 New Monthly Magazine, 



Loudon, 1838, vol. .5.3, ])p. 541 it scq. 

 1839— Parliamentary Paper. Con vcniti on between Her Majesty and the King of the 

 Frciuh, Defining and Regulating the Limits of the Exclusive Right of the 

 Oyster Fishery on the Coast of Groat Hritain and i'lan.c, dated August, 

 "" 1839. London, 1839. 

 a841a— Garner, Robert. On the Anatomy of the Lamellibranciiiate Conchifera. 

 < Trausjutiiuis of the Zoological Society of l.,ondou. London, 1841, vol. 11, 

 pp. 87-102, pi. \i.\. 

 [Commonicated DocemberS. 1835.) 



