OYSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 309 



1808 — Chrisolm, C. On the poison of fish. <^ Ediuliurgli Medical and Surgical 

 Journal, Edinburgh, October, 1808, vol. iv, pp. 391-422. 



On pp. 400-401 a case ia reviewed iu which certain persons suffered " cholera and excru- 

 ciating tormina" after eating of oysters that grew on the copper sheathing of a sunken 

 ship. 



1814 — Home, Everard. The digestive organs of the oyster. <^ Home's Lectures 

 on Comparative Anatomy, London, 1814, vol. ii, p. 77. 



Locates and describes the mouth, stomach, intestines, anus, and adductor muscle of the 

 Ostrea edulis. 



1827— Home, Bverard. The mode by which the propagation of the species is carried 

 on in the common oyster and tlic large fresh- water mnscle. Croonian lec- 

 ture for 1826. Read November 17, 1826. <^ Philosophical Transactions, 

 London, 1827, pp. 39-48, plates iii-vi. 



Discusses with much detail, on pp. 41-44, the anatomy and reproduction of Ostrea edulis. 

 The plates indicate the locations of the several organs, and the various stages in the 

 development of the ovaries and young oysters. See 1828. 



1828 — Home, Bverard. Development of the ova of the common oyster. <[ Home's 

 Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, London, 1828, vol. vi. 

 A reprint of 1827. 

 1836 — Deshayes, G. P. Conchifera. <^Todd'8 Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology, London, 1836, vol. i. 

 Treats of the anatomy of the oyster. 

 1837 a — Garner, Robert. On the nervous system of molluscous animals. <; Trans- 

 actions of the Linnjean Society of London. London, 1837, vol. xvii, 

 pp. 485-501, plate xxiv. 



The special featiire of this article is the author's refereuce to the visual powers of 

 oysters. " In Pecten, Spondylus, and Ostrea we find sra.all, brilliant, emerald-like ocelli, 

 ■which from their structure, having each a minute nerve, a pupil, a pigmentum, a striated 

 body, and a lens, and from their situation at the edge of the mantle, where alone such 

 organs could be useful, and also placed as in Gasteropoda, with the tentacles, must be 

 organs of vision." 



The question of the ability of oysters to see has also been answered in the affirmative 

 by Will (in Froriep's Neue Notizen, No. C22), who states that there are as many as 30 

 distinct eyes projecting from the border of the mantle. But Siebold denies that such is 

 the case, and regards the so-called eyes as simply excrescences devoid of optical powers. 

 There can, however, be little doubt that these moUusks are sensitive to light. For further 

 information on this interesting subject see Mitt, aus der Zool. Stat, zu Neapel, vol. VI, 

 1866; Froriep's Neue Notizen, Nos. 022 and 023; Siebold's Anatomy of the Invertebrata, 

 Boston, 1854, vol. 1, pp. 201-202; and The Eye of Pecten, by Sydney J. Hickson, Studirs 

 fiom the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, Part n, 1882, pp. 1-12. 



1837 b — Anonymous. The oyster. ^Penuy Magazine, London, June 24, 1837, vol. 



VI, pp. 235-238. 



A description of the oyster industry of Great Britain with notes on the natural history 

 of the oyster. 



1838 a — N C. Acrustaceous tour; by the Irish Oyster-Eater. <] Blackwood's 



Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh, November, 1838, vol. 44, pp. 637-649. 

 A humorous discussion of the Irish oyster beds and their products. 

 1833b — AnouymouE. An essay on oysters. <]Colburn'8 New Monthly Magazine, 



London, 1838, vol. 53, pp. 541 et seq. 

 1839 — Parliamentary Paper. Convention between HerMajestyand tlieKingof the 



French, Defining and Regulating the Limits of the Exclusive Right of the 



Oyster Fishery on the Coast of Great Britain and France, dated August, 



1839. Loudon, 1839. 

 3841 a — Garner, Robert. On the Anatomy of the Lamellibranchiate Conchifera. 



<^Transaction8 of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1841, vol. ii, 



pp. 87-102, pi. XIX. 

 [Conununicated December 8, 18 :>5.] 



