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results from the presence of innumerable parasitic corpuscular 
bodies. In the present memoir he describes them and ex- 
periments with them, and figures them very admirably in a 
plate. Why M. Balbiani calls them “‘ Psorospermic ” requires 
explanation. ‘The psorosperms of fish have been identified 
(perhaps hastily) with the pseudo-navicule of Gregarine. 
Gregarine are undoubtedly animals, therefore psorosperms 
are also of animal nature. But M. Balbiani says the silk- 
worm corpuscles are both vegetable and psorospermic, and 
M. Béchamp has shown that they act as vegetable ferments 
—hence either they are not psorosperms, or psorosperms are 
vegetable, and not connected with Gregarine at all. The 
latter is the view which M. Balbiani has elsewhere taken, 
and like M. Ch. Robin, whose pupil he is, ranks the Psoro- 
sperms amongst vegetable parasites—not connecting them 
with Gregarine at all. A much less questionable view of 
the corpuscles of the silk-worm disease is that they are para- 
sitic Mucedinie—similar to those mistaken by M. Balbiani 
(according to M. Claparéde) for sperm cells in the vitellus of 
Aphides. It is not at all improbable that the identity of 
psorosperms and pseudo-navicule has been accepted on too 
slight grounds. 
ENGLAND.—tThe Journal of Anatomy and Physiology. 
The second number of this half-yearly magazine has appeared 
and contains a good set of papers. Those on microscopical 
matters are 
1. Dr. Ransom, “ On the Movements of the Ova of Fishes.” 
2. Dr. Bennett, “ On the origin of Hyaline Corpuscles.” 
3. Dr. Strethill Wright, “On British Zoophytes and 
Protozoa. 
4. Professor Krause, of Gottingen, ‘‘ On the Termination 
of the Nerves in the Conjunctiva.”’ 
The first of these we have already noticed and abstracted 
when it was read at Nottingham, during the meeting of the 
British Association. It was not, however, as stated in the 
journal under notice, read before the Physiological Section 
of the Association, for such a section does not exist and has 
not existed. 
Dr. Hughes Bennett’s paper is a communication of not 
more than twenty lines with two woodcuts. He mentions 
that in examining some ovarian cysts of a woman who died 
in his clinical ward, he observed “ groups of the well-known 
hyaline corpuscles of organic fluids” starting out under 
pressure from the masses of epithelial cells, and hence he 
concludes that undoubtedly the diaphanous corpuscles are 
given off under certain circumstances from cells. He curtly 
