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sections). I always observed in its interior the " flattened sack of singular shape " which 

 Darwin called " the acoustic sack." As long as I knew this sack only from preparations of 

 Lepas anatifera, young specimens of which I cut into series of sections some years ago, 

 I really considered it with Darwin and Krohn : as a sack. Guided by this opinion, I 

 wrote the passage 2 in which I gave it as my opinion that the interpretation of Krohn was 

 more in accordance with the facts than Kossmann's ; for Kossmann called the sack a 

 " Klumpen," i.e., an irregularly-shaped mass, which is sometimes quite solid, sometimes is 

 only furnished with very irregular cavities. A glance at PL VI. fig. 10 will easily con- 

 vince the reader that Kossmann's suggestion is now indeed mine also ; the curious body 

 looks like a compact mass, being composed of smooth layers which have probably been 

 more or less parallel to the wall of the sack, and a granular substance binding these 

 layers together. All the cells bordering the sack, as also those forming the part which is 

 turned outward, participate in the act of secreting the fluid, which hardens to compose 

 the compact body. Hence it is suspended as by two short arms in the opening which 

 leads from the funnel of the oviduct into the curious sack. The compact body must be 

 evacuated before the eggs can pass through the curious sack and the narrow duct, and I 

 think that this is clone by the retraction of the margin of the opening which leads from 

 the funnel into the sack. In one of my series of preparations of Scalpellum vulgare the 

 opening of the sack is as wide as that of the funnel ; the arms of the compact body form 

 a transverse partition between funnel and sack, the remaining part of the compact mass 

 being suspended in the middle of this partition. Regarding the structure of this 

 same apparatus in other genera of Cirripedia I have little to add. In Lepas anatifera 

 and Lepas hillii the structure of the oviduct is the same as in Scalpellum. The funnel 

 at the end of the oviduct where it communicates with the sack seems to be wanting : in 

 a very complete series of preparations of Lepas hillii the oviduct can be followed up to 

 where it communicates with the sack. Its structure is very markedly different from 

 that of the sack, so that the place where the one ends and the other begins can easily be 

 seen (PI. VI. fig. 11). It widens only very inconsiderably to meet the opening of the 

 sack. The wall of the sack is composed of very high and narrow cells (0"05 mm. high 

 and - 003 mm. wide), having an oval nucleus about half way up. The length of the 

 sack itself in Lepas hillii is about 0"8 mm. In Lepas anatifera it is a great deal more ; 

 in a specimen, the capitulum of which measured 38 mm., the greatest diameter of the 

 sack was 3 mm., the shoe-shaped mass in its interior measuring about 2 mm. I observed 

 the curious sack at the end of the oviduct also in Balanus corolliformis, Hoek, and in 

 Balanus tintinnabulum, Linne. Its size in the first species is about - 5 mm. ; the way in 

 which the oviduct communicates with the sack in this species is very like that in 

 Scalpellum, — the oviduct is considerably swollen at the extremity which meets the sack. 



1 Krohn, loc. cit., p. 3C1. 2 Zool. Cliall. Exp., part xxv., p. 12. 



