122 Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society. 
John Thomas Quekett was born at Langport on the 11th 
August, 1815. From his earliest childhood he seems to have been 
devoted to the study of nature. This, however, is no special 
characteristic. Many, perhaps most, children are born with a love 
of science, which it takes all our so-called education to eradicate. 
This is generally effected by sowing the entangling tares of 
grammar, and the dry dates of history, in the virgin soil — so 
that intellectual tastes are choked by the very process which ought 
to develope them. In some cases even more direct means are 
resorted to, as in that of Edwards, of Banff, who was expelled 
from three schools for his incorrigible (though, it must he admitted, 
somewhat ill-regulated) love of nature. But even if actual expul- 
sion be not resorted to, the cold shade of indifference, or disapproval, 
is generally sufficient to check the love of science. 
Quekett, however, had none of these evil influences to contend 
with. His father, the master of the Grammar School at Langport, 
Plate CXCI. 
Fig. 1. — Portion of upper surface of head of L. flavus $ x 1 10. 
„ 2,- „ „ „ „ „ x 110. 
„ 3. — Horizontal section of head of L. flavus $ X 75. 
Plate CXCII. 
Fig. 1. — Upper surface of head of Lasius flavus § x 75. 
„ 2. — Attachment of abdominal segments of Lasius flavus 5 X 225. 
„ 3. — Lobules of cephalic salivary gland of Formica rufa x 75. 
„ 4. — Group of cells from labial salivary gland of Formica rufa $ x 225. 
„ 5. — Tibia of Lasius flavus § x 75. 
„ 6. — Terminal segment of antenna of Myrmica ru /inodis $ x 75. 
„ 7. — Bases of labium and maxilla) in F. rufa $ , showing mode of attach- 
ment to the head. 
References to tiie Figures. 
A. — Antenna. 
A. — 1-3. Muscles of the antenna. 
B. — Labium. 
C. — Glypeus. 
C S. — Cephalic salivary gland. 
D S. — -Duct of the salivary gland. 
E. — Eyes. 
F. — Frontal lamina). 
fl. — Mouth flap. 
I. — Anteroposterior cranial apo- 
physis. 
L. — Labium. 
L. — 1-3. Labial muscles. 
L P. — Labial palpus. 
L S. — Labial salivary gland. 
M. — Mouth sac. 
M d . — Mandible. 
Mrf. — 1-3. Mandibular muscles. 
M P. — Maxillary palpus. 
Mr. — Maxilla. 
M.r. — 1 and 2. Maxillary muscles. 
51 M. — Muscles of mouth flap. 
N. — Nervous system. 
O. — Ocellus. 
cc . — (Esophagus. 
<e . — 1-3. (Esophageal muscles. 
P. — Pharynx. 
P 51. — 1-11. Pharyngeal muscles. 
P S. — Pharyngeal salivary gland. 
R. — Chitinous rod at base of antenna. 
r t . — Recurrent trachea in tibia. 
T S. — Thoracic salivary gland. 
X. — Conical striated body in tibia. 
The transverse striae of the muscles are not in all cases inserted, nor the 
external hairs. 
