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On the Sense-organs of the Lateral Line of Fishes and 

 Amphibia. By Franz E. Schulze, with two plates. ' Schultze^s 

 Archiv/ 1st pai% 1870. — On this subject Ley dig has lately 

 published a most elaborate work. 



Some Remarks on the Nerves of the Salivarij Glands. By 

 Dr. Sigmund Mayer. ' Schultze's Archiv/ 1st part, 1870. 



On Sensory Cells carrying Hairs in the Skin of Molluscs. 

 By Dr. Flemming, with one plate. ' Schultze's Archiv/ 4th 

 part, 1869. 



Lymphatics. — Plasmatic Circulation in Connective Tissue. 

 — L. Banvier, in the ' Archives de Physiologic/ No. 4, 1869, 

 describes the structure of tendons and areolar tissue. He 

 believes in the existence of a plasmatic circulation in connec- 

 tive tissue, and judges from the presence of cells, like the 

 white globules of blood, that it is a true lymph circulation. 

 A canalicular network is stated by him to exist, enclosing the 

 cells of tendon and areolar tissue. It is suggested also that 

 a great space exists between the bundles of subcutaneous 

 areolar tissue, analogous to a serous cavity. 



Co7nmunication of the Arachnoid Space ivith the Lxjmpha- 

 tics. — B. Boehn states (' Virchow's Archiv,' xlvii, 218) that 

 he has convinced himself that there exist pores or stomata on 

 the free surface of the dura mater, which open into the arach- 

 noid space, and place it in communication with plasmatic 

 canals in the connective tissue of the dura mater, just as the 

 openings which Becklinghausen found in the peritoneum and 

 pleura place those serous cavities in continuity with the 

 lymphatic system. 



On the Distal Communication of the Blood-vessels with the 

 Lymphatics, and on a Diaplasmatic System of Vessels, is the 

 title of a very remarkable paper by Dr. T. Albert Carter, of 

 Leamington, published iu No. V of the ' Journal of 

 Anatomy and Physiology,' 1869. It appears that this paper 

 was written and presented to the Boyal Society of London in 

 1864, and that that discriminating body did not grant it a 

 place in the ' Philosophical Transactions/ but allowed a short 

 abstract of it to appear in the ' Proceedings,' and preserved 

 the drawings ''among the archives of the society/' Dr. Carter 

 has done well to publish his paper, for it contains a statement 

 of careful researches leading to the most interesting results. 

 Dr. Carter is known to many raicroscopists as a most skilful 

 manipulator of the injecting syringe, having been one of the 

 first to use a fine carmine injecting fluid. In the course of 

 his researches, by the aid of this process, he discovered minute 

 vessels surrounding cells in the mucous membrane of the frog's 

 palate. These vessels were too minute to admit of the passage 



