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think they can safely be described as bipolar, for their body can be followed up as a very 

 pale process in the direction of the supraoesophageal ganglion as well as in the direction of 

 the eye. In both directions these processes are placed, like the ganglionic cell itself, quite 

 in the interior of the nerve. Close to the eye the nerve shows a second swelling which 

 contains also a distinct ganglionic cell, and it' is by this swelling that the neiwe is laterally 

 attached to the eye. Each of the two other slightly thinner nerves, which run l^etween 

 the two stronger ones, has also a swelling at about the same distance from the eye. The 

 two nerves unite together where this swelling is thickest and where each contains a 

 ganglionic cell ; they then part again and separately run towards the eye, which they 

 reach at its frontal extremity, i.e. that extremity which is directed towards the supra- 

 oesophageal ganglion. I have not been able to study the way in which the nerves enter 

 or are attached to the pigment spot. Eound about the spot a network of fibres of greater 

 or less capacity can easUy be made out ; yet it is extremely difficult, not to say impos- 

 sible, to ascertain with certainty the nature of these fibres. Some of them are no doubt 

 nerve-fibres, while others belong doubtless to the connective tissue. 



The way in which the ganglionic cells are placed in the interior of the nerves sHghtly 

 resembles what Leydig observed in the case of the sympathetic nerve-fibres of insects. 

 He observed ^ (in Bombus terrestris) in single fibres of the so-called sympathetic nerves, 

 a nucleus here and there with a granular mass surrounding it, forming a kind of bipolar 

 ganglionic cell " in der Anlage." 



Neither in Lepas anatifera nor in Lepas fascicularis could I distinguish the two 

 little lenses which Darwin says he has observed. Nor do I think that this is owing 

 to any fault in my observation. Darwin may have observed li%'ing, or at least fresh, 

 animals, and the lenses may have disappeared under the influence of the alcohol. But I 

 think it is more probable that Darwin, who used only a feeble magnifying power, has 

 mistaken the ganglionic cells for Ifenses. What he calls the two small perfectly distinct 

 oval ganglia, are probably the swellings of the optic nerves which in Lepas anatifera 

 contain two distinct gano-lionic cells. 



As regards the sessile Cirripedia, and especially difiercnt species of BaluHiis, the 

 experiments of difi"erent naturalists have shown that they are sensible to a difierence 

 between light and shadow. I do not know whether similar experiments have ever been 

 made on pedunculated Cirripedia. Should they give the same result, and I think they very 

 probably would, even then I should hesitate to consider the rudimentary simple eye placed 

 on the external surface of the stomach as the organ of this function. 

 ' LeyJig, F., Bau des tliieriachen Kbrpera, Tubingen, 1864, p. 205. 



