386 Dr. Burnett on the Renal Organs of the Vertebrata. 
On the other hand, he maintains that the glomerulus or knot of 
blood-vessels is enclosed in the Malpighian body. ‘These views 
he has defended in some of his subsequent reports. 
ni 1845, Gerlacht published a still different opinion upon this 
disputed point of the Malpighian body. He maintained that the 
uriniferous tubes do not end in flask-shaped ceca, but loop and 
pass into each other. he Malpighian bodies he declares to be 
globular deverticula from the tubes, and that they contain, as 
Bowman advocates, the glomerulus. This author has likewise 
reasserted his views in a subseqnent paper. 
The view of Bidder$ is even still different. According to 
this observer, the uriniferous tubes end. in flask-shaped ceca, but 
these last do not enclose the glomeruli. On the contrary, the 
Malpighiay bodies receive each a glomernius in a kind of depres- 
sion, and so the cavity of the Malpighian body is as disconnected 
- from the glomerulus as is the cavity of the pleura from the lung. 
These, as far as I am aware, are all of the dissimilar deve 
tigators 
Bowman. Among these may be mentioned Kolliker,4l Patru- 
tion, in this last, of the Malpighian tuft or glomerulus,—l can 
have no doubt that all these connections and relations really exist. 
* Reichert, see Bericht, dic. for 1848, in Miller's Arch., 1849, p. 65; also that for 
1849 in ibid, 1850, p. 67. 218 
+ Gerlach, Beitrige zur Structurlehre der Niere, in Miiller’s Arch. 1845, P- Ain 
t Gerlach, Zur Anatomie der Niere, in Miiller’s Arch., 1848, p. 103. 5 
§ Bidder, Ueber die Malpighischen Kérper der Niere, in Jfiller's Arch., 1845, P- 
| A : is, that the 
uriniferous tube does not end in the Malpighian body. See Beitrage zur Faye 
sekretion, in the Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Aerzte zu Wien, 1, P rch, 
ey Ko}liker, Ueber Flimmerbegungen in den Primordialnieren, in Mailers * 
ted truban, Beitrige zur Anatomie der menschlechen Niere, in the Prager Vier- 
teljabrsschrift. “xv, - 87. 
+ Nicolueci, Su l intima struttura dei reni in Filiatre-Sebezio. Feb, 1847. 
Mand!, Mémoire sur la structure intime des Organes urinaires, P- ey and Kél- 
} Vietor Carus, oS Malpighi’schen Kérper der Niere, 0 Siebol 
s - wissenschaftl. Zool., ii, 1850, p. 58. +1 Virchow 
ant! Wittich, Beitrige zur Anatomie der secaehae und kranken Niere, in Virco 
Reinhard’s Arch,, iii, p. 147. 
