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“The new auditory sense organ, which the cousins Sarasın think to 
have discovered in the ear of Ichthyophis glutinosus, and which they 
propose to call the macula fundi utriculi, is in all probability no other 
than the macula neglecta. I may say that Rerzius’ observations seem 
to me quite conclusive on this point.” I use the word limited with 
intention for there is much more to be said about these organs, since 
they constitute one of the live and important topics in auditory 
anatomy at the present time. 
In the last number of the Anatomischer Anzeiger the Sarasins !) 
bring the matter up with complaints against Rerzius and myself of 
unfair treatment in slighting or ignoring what they have written on it. 
In few words, instead of having slighted the scientific work of the 
SARASINS I spent much more time over their text and figures than 
the results which they record warranted, solely to accomplish, what 
they assert I neglected to do — viz. to read accurately the few lines 
they wrote about it in their Ergebnisse?) a copy of which they were 
kind enough to send me in Oct. 1891. 
They make the baseless assumption that my words, quoted above, 
refer solely to Rerzius paper’). That their position is not tenable 
is apparent to any one who has read that portion of my memoir 
dealing with these auditory sense organs. The objectionable para- 
graph was made short, in the first place, because the Swedish 
anatomist bad given the main points of the evidence against their 
claims, and they are still unanswered; in the second place because 
after having thoroughly studied the previous evidence and the results 
of my own investigations and carefully considered the views of the 
Sarasins in connection therewith, my conclusions on that one point 
differed so little from those of Rerzıus that it was simple duty to 
give him the credit for having first explained the nature of their 
supposed new sense organ. As a matter of fact I have advanced the 
problem considerably nearer to its solution than where Rerzıus left 
it and the Sarasins would do well to read my memoir before making 
further charges of unfair treatment of a kind which they themselves 
proceed to freely indulge in. 
1) Sarasin, P. & F., Ueber das Gehörorgan der Cäciliiden, Anat. Anz. 
VII, 1892, No. 25/26. 
2) Sarasın, P. & F., Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftl. Forschungen auf 
Ceylon, II, 1890. 
3) Reızıus, G., Das Gehörorgan von Caecilia annulata, Anat. Anz,, 
VI, 1891 (and: Das Gehörorgan der Wirbeltiere, I & II.) 
