OARNOY’S OELL RESEARCHES. 481 
Carnoy’s Cell Researches. 
By 
Arthur Bolles Lee. 
With Plate XXVI. 
In the year 1883 there was circulated in the book-trade a 
prospectus of a forthcoming work on comparative cytology, 
by J. B. Carnoy. This prospectus contained some very re- 
markable drawings of cell-structures. It was followed in 
1884 by the first instalment of the work it announced, ‘ La 
Biologie Cellulaire.’ This work contains a not inconsiderable 
quantity of new views, or modifications of old views, which, 
if true, are certainly highly important. In 1885 Carnoy 
launched a new journal, ‘ La Cellule, intended to be devoted 
to the discussion of the entire biology of the animal and 
vegetal cell. The first volume of this collection contains a 
splendid monograph on the spermatogenesis of the Arthropoda, 
by G. Gilson, and an equally elaborate and searching investi- 
gation of the processes of cell division in the same sub-kingdom, 
by Carnoy.! All this painstaking work has hitherto been 
flatly ignored, in some cases for reasons that are manifestly 
deficient in vis logica, as, for example, that the author 
quotes the Talmud. I suspect that much of the neglect of 
Carnoy’s work is due to reasons of this order; and, believing 
that many of his results are very valuable, I venture to ask to 
be allowed to give some account of them here. 
Carnoy conceives of the cell-body after a fashion that does 
‘La Cytodiérése chez les Arthropodes,’ 
