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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content. A complete facsimile (no. XIII) of K. E. Von BAER'S fundamental memoir: De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (leipzig, i827)
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Von Baer-Sarton the Discovery of the Mammalian Egg and the Foundation of Modern Embryology
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content. A complete facsimile (no. XIII) of K. E. Von BAER'S fundamental memoir: De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (leipzig, i827)
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The Discovery of the Mammalian Egg and the Foundation of Modern Embryology
Author(s): K. E. von Baer and George Sarton
Source: Isis, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Nov., 1931), pp. 315-377 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/224712 . Accessed: 18/07/2014 12:13 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The University of Chicago Press and The History of Science Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Isis. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions The discovery of the mammalian egg and the foundation of modern embryology With a complete facsimile (no. XIII) of K. E. VON BAER'S fun- damental memoir: De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (Leipzig, I827). i. Early embryology, 2. v. BAER'S immediate predecessors, 3. His own discovery, 4. Publication of the Epistola, I827, 5. Ana- lysis of the Epistola, 6. Reception of his discovery, 7. His later work, 8. His colleagues. The Baltic founders of modern em- bryology, 9. His life, io. Bibliography, II. Iconography, 12. Thanks. Facsimile no. XIII: De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (Leipzig, I827). i. Early embryology. - Though the embryological knowledge taught in our medical schools is relatively recent, a complete history of embryology would take us back to the earliest times. Indeed we may assume that every thinking man has asked himself some questions with regard to the formation and development of embryos, for such questions are continually forced upon him by life itself. Any attempt to answer them, however crude, was a contribution to embryology, and the elaborate treatises available to modern students have been gradually produced by the constant accumulation, selection, improvement, arrangement, and rearrangement of the answers. The medical schools of Cos, Cnidos, and of Sicily showed already much interest in the subject, and the earliest systematic treatment of it may be found in a group of Hippocratic treatises which are probably of Cnidian origin and date from the first quarter of the fourth century B. C. (i) Somewhat later appeared (I) SARTON, Introduction (vol. I, 119-21, etc.). This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 3I6 G. SARTON -ARISTOTLE's treatise De generatione animalium, then later still various writings of the Alexandrian school, finally those of GALFN, which were the culmination of more than six centuries of scientific efforts. To make a detailed examination of embryological ideas down to the seventeenth century would take us too far away. It will suffice to say that the mediaeval thoughts on the subject were dominated, directly or indirectly, by the writings of ARISTOTLE and GALEN. In the seventeenth century new and fundamental investigations were made by HIERONYMUS FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE (De formato foetu, c. I604; etc.), by WILLIAM HARVEY (Exercitationes de generatione animalium, London, i 65 I), and by MARCELLO MALPIGHI (Deformatione pulli in ovo, London, I673; etc.). MAL- PIGHI S papers containing many careful observations, splendidly illustrated, seemed to open a very promising field, but unfortunately his investigations and those of contemporary microscopists, notably SWAMMERDAM and LEEUWENHOEK, were soon thrown into the background by unprofitable discussions. At least they seem to have been unprofitable; they were certainly premature. These discussions were of two kinds. First in chronological order and also in importance, there was the conflict between epigenesists and < evolutionists a. The former claimed that the development of the egg or of the embryo was really a new develop- ment, a new creation or construction-like that of a house by means of undifferentiated stones. This was really the Aristotelian and the Harveian point of view. According to the # evolutionists > on the contrary, the embryological development was simply an unfolding, an evolution (hence their name), comparable to that of the bud opening out into a flower. This theory of pre-formation (or pre-delineation) received, curiously enough, the support of two of the best biological observers of that time (and indeed of all times), MALPIGHI and SWAMMERDAM, and there was in it something mystical which made a strong appeal to the more philosophically minded among the naturalists, ALBRECHT VON HALLER and CHARLES BONNET, not to speak of philosophers, such as LEIBNIZ. Under philosophical patronage these ideas were soon carried to their logical conclusion, the absurd theory of the incasement (emboitement) of germs. This implied for example -as SWAMMERDAM'S eccentric genius had already seen it-that This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions ......1 I....0 f . : Isis, XVI, P1. 5. (I792-I876) G. SARTON.~~. . ... .... This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Monument v. BAER (Dorpat) Isis, XVT, pi. 6. G. SARTON. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 317 mother Eve carried the whole of mankind neatly folded in her womb. The other discussion was started by the sensational discovery of spermatozoa which LEEUWENHOEK published in I678. Accor- ding to him and his followers,-the animalculists (or spermists), -the sperm was the real germ, the female egg being only a sort of nest wherein this germ was hatched. Their adversaries, called ovists (or ovulists), claimed that the egg was the true germ and that the sperm was comparatively insignificant. Thus was the fine observational tradition of the seventeenth century interrupted, or at any rate considerably slowed down for more than a century by discussions which were irrelevant, because they were too far ahead of the experimental data. The only work of the eighteenth century which continued the efforts of FABRICUS, HARVEY, and MALPIGHI and deserves to be quoted together with theirs was that of CASPAR FRIEDRICH WOLFF (Theoria generationis, Halle, I759; Deformatione intestinorum, St. Petersburg, I768-69). WOLFF'S investigations were very remarkable, and they earned VON BAER'S unstinted admiration; in some respects they were almost prophetic, for example we find in them an adumbration of the theory of germ layers; yet his actual observations were hardly on the high level which MALPIGHI had attained almost a century before. 2. Baer's immediate predecessors. - So much for the distant background, but as we come nearer to the discovery to which this paper is devoted, we want to see the stage more clearly. A good account of the antecedents of his discovery was given by v. BAER himself in his autobiography (i866, 306-26), and more briefly in the preface to the memoir reproduced below (p. i-v). I have checked the main points of it to my satisfaction. V. BAER begins by explaining the unsuccessful experiments made by HALLER, in 1752, on some forty sheep, and later, on other animals. As HALLER failed to recognize anything like an egg except in a relatively late stage (after a fortnight), he concluded that only a fluid substance was carried to the uterus, and that after a long time out of that fluid <(curdled )> (gerinnen) not only the chorion but the embryo itself. This may seem fantastic, but consider HALLER's evidence; he found no trace of an egg This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 318 G. SARTON anywhere if the dissection was made too soon after the ewes had been covered, but if one waited a little longer a small embryo was discovered in the womb. Thanks to HALLER'S immense authority his conclusion was generally accepted, and it was taught in the medical schools until the very time of v. BAER'S discovery; v. BAER himself learned it in Dorpat. (2) Yet glimpses of the truth had been already seen by at least three men, duly mentioned by v. BAER. In I797 (I778) (3) WILLIAM CUMBERLAND CRUIKSHANK of Edinburgh had found ova, considerably sinaller than the Graafian vesicles, in the oviducts of a rabbit three days after impregnation, and on the fourth day, he found them in the uterus. These experiments (29 in number) were very remarkable indeed, and, being published in one of the leading scientific journals of the time, it is strange that they did not attract more attention. The only explanation is that the prejudice against the concept of mammalian egg, a prejudice confirmed by HALLER'S authority, was then too strong to be shaken. (4) CRUIKSHANK'S observations were repeated by JEAN Louis PRE1VOST (I790-I850) and the future chemist, JEAN BAPTISTE DUMAS (I800-84) and published in their memoir De la generation dans les mammiferes et des premiers indices du developpement de l'embryon (Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 3, II3-38, 3 pl., Paris, I824). Finally, another approach to the complete discovery was made in I825 by the great Czech biologist, JOHN EVANGELISTA PURKINJE (1787-I869), a man whose versatile genius has not yet received (2) CARL FRIEDRICH BURDACH, Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft. Mit Beitriigen von K. E. v. BAER und HEINRICH RATHKE (6 vols., Leipzig, 1826-40; vol. I, 75). (3) CRUIKSHANK'S experiments were made at Chelsea in I778 at HUNTER'S expense, but were not ((read)) until I797 (Philosophical Transactions, vol. for 1797, I97-214, I pI.) (4) HALLER had expressed himself wery strongly. ((Denique, quod caput rei est, neque HARTMANNUS cum experimenta Grafflana iteravit; neque VALISNERUS tot et tam variis in bestiis; neque ego in pene centum experimentis; neque nuperiorum anatomicorum quispiam, vesiculam, quales sunt in ovariis, post c.onceptionem, aut in tuba vidimus aut in utero. )) Quoted by CRUIKSHANK (Op. Cit., p. I99). CRUIKSHANK had an immense admiration for HALLER - ((cujus auctoritas (he said, repeating another's saying) apud me plus valet quam auctoritas *omnium aliorum anatomicorum simul sumptorum)). Happily this did not blind him to the facts. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 3I9 all the fame it deserves. He described the germinal vesicle in the chicken's egg (Symbolae ad ovi avium historiam ante incuba- tionem, Breslau, 1825; quoted in the facsimile below, p. 25), and thus by building so-to-say a bridge between the avian egg and the mammalian one, made the concept of the latter more plausible. Indeed mammalian ova as compared with bird's eggs wvere exceedingly small, of microscopic size. This is accounted by the fact that the bird's egg being expelled from the bird's body, must be entirely self sufficient and contain all the food which will be necessary to build up the embryo. But if one considers only the germinal part of it-and PURKINJE's discovery made this for the first time possible-the eggs of birds and mam- mals are brought much nearer to each other. 3. Baer's own discovery. - It is thus clear that v. BAER'S great discovery did not come out of the blue sky,-no discovery ever does. The young K6nigsberg anatomist was well acquainted with the works of his predecessors. None of these had actually clinched the argument, and the best proof of it is that they had failed to convince anybody; they had not even completed their own conviction. Yet, thanks to their efforts the concept of mammalian egg had become plausible; it had been rescued from the oblivion to which HALLER's absolutism had condemned it. Prejudices were not yet overcome, but the question was re-opened and it was now possible for an intelligent and persistent man of science to investigate it anew, more thoroughly, and perhaps to solve it. This was v. BAER'S achievement. His own account of his discovery is so moving that we cannot do better than to reproduce it verbatim (Selbstbiographie, I866, 3IO-I 2): ((So standen die Untersuchungen ilber diesen Gegenstand, als ich mich in ihn zu vertiefen anfing. Im Jahre i826 hatte ich schon mehrmals kleine durchsichtige Eier von I /2 bis I I/2 Linien (5) Durchmesser, wie PREVOST und DUMAS sie gesehen hatten, in den Hornern des Uterus und selbst in den Eileitern gefunden, im Friihlinge I827 aber bedeutend kleinere, viel weniger durchsichtige und deshalb kenntliche in den Eileitern. Ich zweifelte nicht, diese auch fur Eier zu halten, da es ja wahrscheinlich war, dass die Dottermasse auch bei Saugethieren ursprunglich undurchsichtig seyn werde. Ich sprach im April oder in den ersten Tagen des Mai des zuletzt genannten Jahres mit BURDACH daruber, dass ich gar nicht mehr in Zweifel seyn k6nne, die Eier der Saugethiere kiamen fertig (5) I. e., I to 3 mm. (G. S.) This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 320 G. SARTON gebildet aus dem Eierstocke, und dass ich sehr wunschte, eine Hiundin zu erhalten, die erst vor ein Paar Tagen sich belaufen habe. Nach PRIVOST'S und DUMAS'S Beo- bachtungen musste man namlich glauben, dass man um diese Zeit bei Hunden die Graafischen Blischen noch geschlossen finden werde, aber reif zur Er6ffnung. Man glaubte damals, dass die Eroffnung der Eikapsel oder der Graafischen Blaischen unmittelbar von der Paarung abhange, was nicht richtig ist. Zufaillig besass BURDACH im eigenen Hause eine solche Hiindin, die langere Zeit schon Haus- genossin gewesen war. Sie wurde geopfert. Als ich sie offnete, fand ich einige Graafische Blaschen geborsten, keine dem Bersten sehr nahe. Indem ich, nieder- geschlagen, dass die Hoffnung wieder nicht erfilllt sey, den Eierstock betrachtete,. bemerkte ich ein gelbes Fleckchen in einem Blischen, sodann auch in mehreren andern, ja in den meisten, und immer nur ein Fleckchen. Sonderbar ! dachte ich, was muss das seyn? Ich offnete ein Blaschen und hob vorsichtig das Fleck- chen mit dem Messer in ein mit Wasser gefuilltes Uhrglas, das ich unter das Mikroskop brachte. Als ich in dieses einen Blick geworfen hatte, fuhr ich, wie vom Blitze getroffen, zuriick, denn ich sah deutlich eine sehr kleine, scharf aus- gebildete gelbe Dotterkugel. Ich musste mich erholen, ehe ich den Muth hatte, wieder hinzusehen, da ich besorgte, ein Phantom habe mich betrogen. Es scheirt sonderbar, dass ein Anblick, den n-ian erwartet und ersehnt hat, erschrecken kann, wenn er da ist. Allerdings war aber doch etwas unerwartetes dabei. Ich hatte mir nicht gedacht, dass der Inhalt des Eies der Saiugethicie dem Dottcr dei V6gel so ahnlich sehen wiurde. Da ich aber nur ein einfaches Mikroskop mit dreifacher Linse hingestellt hatte, war die Vergr6sserung nur massig und die gelbe Farbe blieb kenntlich, die bei stairkerer Vergr6sserung und Beleuchtung von unten, schwarz erscheint. Was mich erschreckte, war also dass ich ein scharf umschriebenes, von einer starken Haut umschlossenes, regelmaissiges Kugelchen vor mir sah, von dem Vogeldotter nur durch die derbe, etwas abstehende aussere Haut unterschieden. Auch die klevnen undurchsichtigen Eichen, die ich im Eileiter gefunden hatte, hatten nur eine gelblich-weisse Fairbung gehabt, ohne Zweifel veil der Dotter schon in Auflosung begriffen war; die grossern waren durchsichtig. Es wurden noch mehrere solcher unaufgeloster Dotterkugeln ausgehoben, und alle auch von BURDACH gesehen, der bald hinzugekommen war. ) (The rest of v. BAER'S account is equally interesting, but more technical.) To those who would be tempted to give too much credit to CRUIKSHANK, PR1EVOST, and DUMAS, for their remarkable anticipa- tions of this discovery, I would point out in this quotation, the sentences expressing v. BAER'S emotion when he had just made it. When he first saw the minuscule sphere of yolk which was the egg he had been dreaming of, he was so struck that he was obliged to rest himself before he had the courage to look a second time into his microscope; he was afraid of having been deluded by a phantom. This proves satisfactorily that the discovery could not be considered as already completed at the time that v. BAER made it, for he who had read anterior observations, and had This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 321 pondered over them, was so far from being convinced by them that he was still in the expectant and adventurous stage of mind which his description reveals. 4. Publication of the Epistola (I827). --- The discovery was made in April or in the early days of May. The author hastily completed it by a number of correlative observations, and wrote a long miemoir on the subject. The Imperial Academy of St. Petersbrug had just elected him a corresponding menmber, and to return the compliment the memoir was written in the form of a Latin letter addressed to that Academy <(on the genesis of the egg of mammals and of man>). This awkward title (as if man was not one of the mammals) was used by the author to assert that the discovery applied to man as well as to other mammals; though his observations were made primarily on dogs, he had actually observed the eggs of other mammals including man (see fig. XIII). The memoir was sent about the middle of July 1827 to the publisher LEOPOLD Voss in Leipzig. For the amateur of bibliographical details, I miay add that though its cover bears the date 1827, it did not appear until January 1828. 5. Analysis of the Epistola. - As this memorable publication is written in Latin, a brief analysis of it will increase the usefulness of the facsimile given below. The introductory letter addressed to the Russian Academy contains a brief history of the subject; note (on p. III) the discussion of the relation of the ova to the Graafian vesicles to which I shall come back presently. The treatise itself begins with a description of dog's embryos. In the second chapter, the earlier stages of the development of the dog's ova are considered. This may seem an unnatural order, but it was justified because it was better first to consider the more familiar objects, and then to pass on to the less familiar and the unknown. It would be too long to give an account of these observations, but they are not very difficult to follow with the help of the author's drawings, and his references to other observations can easily be detected even by one having but little knowledge of Latin. Of course one weakness of this memoir (and of many others for a long time afterwards) was the very imperfect dating of some of the embryonic materials, but this was unavoidable. Remember this was the very beginning This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 322 G. SARTON of modern embryology, and to make possible the dating-even approximate-of eggs and embryos of various animals considerable embryological experience was needed (unless they were dated by the very conditions of the experiment). In chapter 3, v. BAER studies the ova found in dog's ovaries; in chapter 4, the structure of the Graafian vesicles and the ova of mammals in general. This completes the analytical part of the work, which is followed by the synthesis divided into two chapters: 5. Sketch of the embryological development of mammals; 6. Comparison of the eggs of mammals with those of other animals. The writing of this last chapter was made possible by PURKINJE's discovery of the germinative spot in the chicken's egg; that discovery had been published in 1825 but v. BAER only heard of it in the autumn of i826, a few months before his own discovery, when his mind was maturing for it. His conclusions with regard to the relation of eggs to Graafian vesicles deserve to be translated verbatim (See p. 32; the under- lining is the author's own). ( When we take the ovary and in general the maternal organism into consideration, the Graafian vesicle is thus the real egg of mammals. However, as far as its development is concerned, it diverges widely from the egg of other animals; these are carried intact out of the ovary, and they not only provide for the fetus a place of develop- ment, they transform themselves into that fetus. In the mammals the embedded vesicle contains a more developed yolk and behaves with regard to the coming embryo as the real egg. It might be called the fetal egg within the maternal egg. The mammals have thus an egg within an egg, or, if this way of putting it may be allowed, an egg in the second power. > These considerations must seem very strange to present day embryologists, but to appreciate them correctly they must bear in mind many facts. To begin with, v. BAER passed the formative years of his youth-the years during which he finally found himself -in Wiirzburg and obtained there the best part of his scientific education under the guidance of the anatomist IGNAZ DOLLINGER (I770-1841), and through D6LLINGER he also imbibed SCHELLING' S ( Naturphilosophie *>. It is not here the place to discuss the scientific consequences of that romantic philosophy; some were disastrous, but others were excellent, and among these must This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 323 be quoted the synthetic endeavors of such men as OERSTED and V. BAER. In the second place, and perhaps more to the point, the under- standing of the Graafian vesicles and of their relations to the ;embryos was vague and uncertain in v. BAER'S time (see his preface, p. III). We may recall that a careful description of these vesicles was first made by the Dutch anatomist REGNER DE GRAAF (De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus, Leiden, I 672), and they were mistaken by him for eggs (6); hence they were at first called ovula Graafiana. HALLER and others investigated them and never observed these so-called eggs except in the ovaries; in particular they never found them either in the oviducts or in the womb; on the other hand, after a longer time, eggs or embryos were found in the womb. HALLER concluded, first, that these ovula were not eggs, and their name was changed into vesiculae (or folliculae) Graafianae, second, that the real eggs crystallized in the womb out of a fluid substance. The first conclusion was right, the second, wrong. Now the link between vesicles and embryo which HALLER had been unable to find, had finally been detected by v. BAER. This was indeed the essence of his discovery: he had seen the real eggs appear within the walls of the Graafian vesicles; he had followed them along the oviduct into the womb, where he had watched their further development. Thus HALLER was wrong: the eggs were not created in the womb, but in the vesicles. In his reaction against the great master HALLER, V. BAER was carried too far and returned with his enriched knowledge to DE GRAAF'S original position, if not to a cruder one: the vesicles Dfound in mammalian ovaries are equivalent to the birds' eggs. But then what of the new eggs discovered by him ? v. BAER saw no way out but to call them (eeggs within eggs #>, (< eggs in the second power #>, a feeble compromise to be sure. We must add that a deeper investigation of the facts was materially impossible without the histological knowledge and technique which did not become available until much later. (6) DE GRAAF'S interpretation was far more complex and nearer the truth than can be gathered from v. BAER'S summary of it. According to DE GRAAF the vesicles were less eggs, than egg nests, but of course he had no idea of the nature of the egg itself nor of its ulterior development. See B. OTTOW'S preface to v. BAER'S memoir (Leipzig, 1927, p. VI). This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 324 G. SARTON I have discussed this question because of its psychological interest. A man makes a great discovery and misinterprets it because he is hypnotized by earlier ideas. The history of science is full of similar examples. It shows that the most difficult thing of all is to see things as they are, without preconception. Few people are able to do it at all, and these few only by inter- mittence. I had another good reason for discussing it. v. BAER'S hesitant explanation of his discovery is practically unknown. Indeed nobody reads his memoir of 1827, and the few embryologists and historians who have some knowledge of its contents, have obtained it from v. BEAR'S autobiography. Now that autobiography (like all other works of the same kind) does not tell the whole truth. Though some twenty pages are devoted to the Epistola, no mention is made of the author's half-hearted interpretation of his own observations. For other considerations on the Graafian and Purkinjean vesicles, on the corpus luteum and the thecae folliculi, I must refer to the original memoir (p. 25-35), as it is obviously impossible to discuss every point of it. I shall only quote the final conclusions: < Every animal, which is begotten by a sexual union, develops out of an egg; none out of a formative liquor. (7) < The male semen acts through the eggskin (cuticula ovi), which contains no aperture, upon the egg and especially upon a definite part of it. < Every development strives from the center toward the peri- phery. The central parts are thus formed before the external ones. <( The process of development is the same for all vertebrates. It begins with the backbone.)) 6. Reception of v. Baer's discovery. - In spite of the pains he had taken to re-explain his discovery in German in HEUSINGER'S Zeitschrift fur organische Physik (vol. 2, January, I828), it made (7) Let me repeat that the concept of formnative liquor, whence the egg developed in the womb long after mating, was the accepted one in 1827. A few years before, in 1824, a memoir of HAUSMANN, explaining that concept had been crownedi by the scientific society of Gbttingen. This HAUSMANN, who became director of the veterinary school of Hanover, published an enlarged and improved edition of his memoir in 1840 !(G. S.) This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 325 but little stir. Throughout the year i 828, the reaction toward his memoir was-as v. BAER'S puts it-(( altum silentium >. When he attended the meeting of the Versammlung der Naturforscher, in Berlin, in September of that year, none of the anatomists whom he met knew a word of it. He was too proud to mention the subject himself, and it was only on the last day that he was given a chance to demonstrate his views. This was due to the interest of the Swedish anatomist, ANDERS RETZIUS (1796-I860), whose mind was uncommonly versatile and receptive. Among the small group of scientists who attended his demonstration were JOHANN MULLER, ERNST WEBER, and PURKINJE. The silence was broken in the following year (I 829). One may say that v. BAER's discovery was on the whole well received, without special enthusiasm it is true, but with few discordant notes. A deeper appreciation of it happened only later, gradually, as embryological knowledge developed. After the establishment of the cellular theory by THEODOR SCHWANN, in I839, V. BAER's discovery and its abundant fruits were re-explained in the new language. (8) Of course this was not a new discovery, but simply a re-interpretation. It is interesting to note that embryology was already well advanced when the cellular theory was finally understood. This is an excellent illustration of the fact that discoveries do not necessarily follow one another in a logical order; the human spirit groping in the darkness does not follow by any means the shortest path. 7. v. Baer's later work. - I have devoted so much space to the Epistola of i827 because it was truly the foundation stone of modern embryology. It niust be judged in that light. Leaving aside chronological considerations, its intrinsic importance was much smaller than that of v. BAER'S ulterior publications on the same subject. His main embryological work was the great treatise entitled Uber Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere. Beoach- tung und Reflexion of which the first part appeared in I828 and the second in I837 (both in Kdnigsberg; for an account of them see Selbstbiographie, i866, 297-300, 33I-43, 389-99, 447-51). If the Epistola may be called the foundation stone of modern emibryology, (8) In the Epistola reproduced below note that the term oviculum is practically equivalent to our egg cell, while ovum refers to a later stage. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 326 G. SARTON these two volumes were really the whole foundations of it. To be sure they embodied the investigations not only of the author but of many other scientists; they realized a great structural effort: the creation of a new branch of science. They contained a very elaborate account of one of the fundamental doctrines of embryology, the theory of germ layers (Keimbliitter), which had been vaguely outlined by WOLFF and clearly explained by V. BAER'S colleague, PANDER, in I817. But they did not contain, except by way of general indication, the recapitulation theory -i.e., the theory that the embryonic development of each creature is a brief recapitulation of its ancestral history. That theory was elaborated by FRITZ MUiLLER (I821-97) in his book Fur Darwin (Leipzig, I864), and popularized by HAECKEL. (9) As I have spoken above (? i) of the old conflict between the epigenesists and the (< evolutionists >, it is well to state V. BAER'S attitude with regard to it. It was to some extent a compromising attitude. The egg and sperm do not inhe it and contain organs, but in some way or another they must contain patterns, inasmuch as the development of a given kind of fertilized egg always occurs in the same way. To quote his own words (Selbstbiographie, i866, 319): ("Vorhergebildet (praiformirt) ist das korperliche gar nicht, wohl aber ist der Gang der Entwickelung ganz der Gang, welchen die Aeltern durchlaufen haben. (9) The law of development formulated by v. B3AER according to which the growing organism passes from the general to the particular, would be interpreted to-day in the light of the doctrine of recapitulation, but v. BAER did not. On the contrary he denied that doctrine for one reason because no adult animal ever has a yolk-stalk or is surrounded by amniotic fluid. Note that denial of the doctrine implied that it was already in existence, and I have traced it back to JOHANN FRIEDRICH MECKEL (1781-1833) who wrote in I8I I (I quote from HI. F. OSBORN: From the Greeks to Darwin, 2nd ed., New York, 1929, 308). ((There is no good physiologist who has not been struck, incidentally, by the observation that the original form of all organisms is one and the same, and that out of this one form, all, the lowest as well as the highest, are developed in such a manner that the latter pass through the permanent forms of the former as transitory stages.)) This was generalizing on rather scanty foundations but the idea was there. Perhaps it even antedates MECKEL. I found a reference to a comparison made in 1793 by KARL FRiEDRICH VON KIELMEYER (1765-I844)-a very inspiring German biologist and philosopher who was CUvIER's teacher-of a tadpole to an adult fish. I wonder if that had much influence in the development of the doctrine. (From a private letter by J. P. M.) This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 327 So ist grade das Unsichtbare, der Verlauf der Entwickelung vorausbestimmt, und giebt mit sehr geringen Variationen dasselbe Resultat, das der Entwickelungs- gang der Aeltern gehabt hatte. Man kann also sagen, dass der Lebensprocess ein continuirlicher ist durch den ganzen Stamm der Nachkommnenschaft, der nur von Zeit zu Zeit schlummert (in der Eibildung namlich) und neue Individuen schafft, indem er nach einer Befruchtung seinen Verlauf neu beginnt, bei der Sprossenbildung aber seinen Verlauf nur fortsetzt, so dass die Sprossen, werin sie vom Mutterkorper sich losen um ein eigenes Leben zu fiihren, den Anfang desselben nicht selbstandig besassen, sondern ihn von dem Stammkorper hatten. Je niederer die Organisation eines lebenden Individuums ist, desto mehr ist die Fortpflanzung nur eine Verlangerung des individuellen Lebens, so dass auf den tiefsten Stufen des Lebens das Wachsthum ganz unmittelbar in die Theilung in mehre Individuen iibergeht.)) 8. v. Baer's colleagues. The Baltic founders of modern embryology. - If only to complete my account of the genesis of v. BAER'S discovery, we must say a few words of at least two colleagues of his, who share with him the glory of being the outstanding embryological pioneers. HEINRICH CHRISTIAN PANDER, born at Riga in 1794; studied in Dorpat, Berlin, and G6ttingen, and finally, at v. BAER'S sugges- tion, in Wiirzburg under D6LLINGER. His investigation of the germ layers in the chick's embryo, published in I 817, was a product of his Wiirzburg days. In I826, he was appointed a member of the Russian Academy, but resigned the following year. He died in I865. MARTIN HEINRICH RATHKE was born in Danzig, 1793; he studied in G6ttingen under BLUMENBACH, then taught physiology in Dorpat, and after v. BAER'S departure for St. Petersburg replaced him in Konigsberg. He discovered the branchial slits in the embryo and the circulation ad hoc. This was a very startling discovery, which would become a splendid illustration of the future recapitulation theory. He continued his work in Konigs- berg until his death in i86o. It is very remarkable that these three men, v. BAER, RATHKE, and PANDER hailed from the southern Baltic region. v. BAER was an Esthonian, PANDER, a Latvian, and RATHKE came from Danzig. The three were at a time connected with Dorpat; v. BAER and RATHKE taught in K6nigsberg; PANDER and v. BAER were members of the Russian Academy, which was thus continuing a fine tradition, for WOLFF had spent the last thirty years of his life in its service (I764-94). PURKINJE, who has been many This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 32 8 G. SARTON tim,s m2ntioned above, and was also one of the founders, was a Czech (born in Leitmeritz, I787; died in Prague, I869). 9. v. Baer s life.-KARL ERNST VON BAER was born at Piep, in Esthonia, in 1792. His father was a srmall landowner. KARL ERNST was educated in Reval and Dorpat, and finally in Wiirzburg, where DOLLINGER exerted a deep influence upon him, at once from the scientific and from the philosophic point of view. While in Wiirzburg, he collaborated with PANDER. After a brief stay in Berlin, he was invited by BURDACH in 18I7, to join him in Kbnigsberg. He remained in Kbnigsberg seventeen years, being in turn prosector and professor. In 1834, he was appointed librarian of the Russian Academy. From then on the greatest part of his life was spent in St. Petersburg, until his retirement in Dorpat where he died in 1876. The golden years of his life were undoubtedly the seventeen years spent in Kbnigsberg. His main work was done then and there, and his famie is based upon his activities of that time, I817-34. After the publication of the second part of his Entwickelungs- geschichte, in 1837 (which was really a fruit of the Kbnigsberg period), his interest was gradually withdrawn from embryology, and devoted to zoology (chiefly ichthyology), geography, anthro- pology, and to historical or philosophical questions. It should be noted that his anthropological curiosity, though greatly fostered by the exploration of the immense Russian territories in which he took part, was not a novelty. In fact in I824 he had already published an elaborate treatise on the subject: Vorlesungen iiber Anthropologie f ur den Selbstuwnterricht bearbeitet. Erster Theil (XXVI + 525 P., ii pl., K6nigsberg, I824). During the Petersburg years, v. BAER traveled considerably and yet found time to write a large number of papers and books on many subjects, in German and in Russian. Though his activity was then of great importance for the organization of Russian science, no publication of that time does begin to compare with those which were written or matured in Konigsberg. It is typical of v. BAER'S philosophical orientation that in his old age he wrote a couple of papers against Darwinism (reprinted in his Reden, vol. 2, 1876, p. 170-480) in the name of conformity to natural law and <(Zielstrebigkeit >>. In this however his fortune This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMALIAN EGG 329 was very similar to CUVIER'S. Even as some of the best arguments for the theory of evolution were found in the latter's own contribu- tions, v. BAER became, in spite of his anti-Darwinian theories, one of the apostles of the new biological philosophy. Indeed one of the best approaches to that philosophy is the embryological and v. BAER was naturally considered the fountain-head of that particular line of argument. This is legitimate, even if one does not ascribe to him the famous recapitulation theory which became the favorite war horse of the evolutionists. HERBERT SPENCER derived his theory of evolution from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in part from v. BAER'S investigations. This is an additional proof of the preeminence of observations over theories. The anti-Darwinian v. BAER was not simply the founder of modern embryology, he was one of the pioneers of the evolutionary philosophy. io. Bibliography. - The fundamental source is the Selbst- biographie published in i866 (( Nachrichten iiber Leben und Schriften des Herrn Geheimraths Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, mitgetheilt von ihm selbst. Verbffentlicht bei Gelegenheit seines ffinfzigj ihrigen Doctor-Jubiliums am 29. August I864 von der Ritterschaft Ehstlands # (xvi + 519 P., St. Petersburg, i866). With portrait and catalogue raisonne of his writings. A second edition, not available to me, appeared in Brunswick, i886. v. BAER'S main philosophical and historical publications were collected in his Reden gehalten in wissenschaftlichen Versammlungen und kleinere Aufsdtze vermischten Inhalts (3 vols., St. Petersburg; vol. I, I864; vol. 2, 1876; vol. 3, I873). The following papers deal with historical subjects. In vol. i, on SWAMMERDAM, SAMUEL THOMAS von SOMMERING, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. In vol. 3, on the views of the ancients concerning swan song, the travels of ODYSSEUS, the commercial road crossing Russia in the fifth century B. C., SOLOMON'S Ophir. Vol. z contains only philoso- phical papers, e.g., his anti-Darwinian contributions. Fragments relating to philosophical zoology, selected from his works, in the Scientific Memoirs edited by ARTHUR HENFREY and THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (P. 176-238, London, I853). The Latin memoir reproduced below was republished in German form, somewhat expanded, by the author himself in the Zeitschrift Io This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 330 G. SARTON fur organische Physik (vol. 2, 125-I93, i828). This was a short lived periodical edited by C. FRIEDRICH HEUSINGER (3 vOls. I8z2-28). It was translated into French by GILBERT BRESCHET Lettre sur la formation de l'wuf dans 1'espece humainie et dans les mammiferes (84 p., Paris, 1829), and into German by B. OTTOW: Uber die Bildung des Eies der Sdugetiere und des AMenschen. This German version was published in I927 by the publishers of the original memoir (LEOPOLD Voss in Leipzig) as a part of the centen- nial commemoration (Isis, 12, 381). REMIGIUS ST6LZE: KARL ERNST VON BAER und seine Weltan- schanun1g (xi + 688 p., Regensburg, I897). WILHELM HAACKE K. E. v. BAER (VII + 175 p., Klassiker der Naturwissenaschaften, 3, Leipzig; preface dated i9o5). Studies on v. BAER by V. VERNADSKIJ, NI. SOLOVJEV, and E. RAD- L.OV, were published by the Russian Academy (71 p. in Russian, Leningrad, 1927). i i. Iconography. - The portrait of v. BAER which we reproduce bears the inscription (( Stich und Druck v. WEGER in Leipzig a; it was published in the first vol. of Reden (St Petersburg, I864); also in the Selbstbiographie (St Petersburg, i866). Of the monu- m-ient which was erected in Dorpat to celebrate his memory, I have a faded photograph made by TH. JOHN, Alexander Strasse, Dorpat, in or after 1876. Our reproduction was made from a new photograph kindly sent to us by the librarian of the Univer- sity of Dorpat (Tartu). I2. Thanks. - The present facsimile- no. XIII of our series of scientific classics-was made upon the original copy belonging to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Anatomy whose courtesy is hereby acknowledged. It was photostatted at the Library of Congress, thanks to Mr. F. E. BRASCH's kindness. The facsimile is complete but somewhat reduced, the original being of quarto size (30 X 23.5 cm.). Professor J. PLAYFAIR MCMURRICH, Of Toronto, kindly read my manuscript, and added a note on the theory of recapitulation (see p. 326). November 9, I929. GEORGE SARTON. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions D E OV I MAMMALIUM ET HOMINIS GENESI E P IS T O L AM AD ACADEMIAM IMPERIALEM SCIENTIARUM PETROPOLITANAM DEDIT CAROLUS ERNESTUS A BAER ZOOLOGIAF. PROF PUBL. ORD. REGIOMONTANUS. CIjM rTAB11L 1 IENE1. LIPSIAZ, #4UMPTIBCS LEOPOLDI VOSSIL MDCCC I\IV IL This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions CAROLUS ERNESTUS A BAER DE OVI MAUMMALIUM ET HOMINIS GENESI. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions VItI EXCELLENTISSIJ1 PERILLUSTRES! SiffrragiuII VESTIIUMl, qio iIue Ae4adeniae al) epi- stoLs esse voIuiuStiLs, quittito tme oxttulerlit, VoU is euiuuuciar-e hlatiti contabor, inip)rimiis ciii mtie 9 lio iiine'lli iovtiu , Cvllii viris conijulInxistiS, (tionriiii omina piiruim p)ouderis stiiit in relpIil)IiCaI hterarltik. V)S ii1 ad(lholrtri voliiisse puto, iie (tier , sedI initenlis vi-iibius tanforumu virormini vesti-rm premaias. CGiati..S 1)10O Vl,SSTIIA erga iue b)enieVOIeIiia 11)11 atiuis itie actuinkiui CeiiSco, quIamIi Si VO Iii Sc C Uoi itiiCiiIII 1OlISSilIiIIiiII COIIliiiUIIiCi , (IO( , Cilik adl histor4lill e'ohitionis perli;ieal. Sill) 'ESTR IS IUSI)iCuiiS ill IceiI p)roI i su(a Slillihprl 1)11111 lae- bel vo1il)ptatemI. VESTI A elilm A/c(a Iemia, 1)1i (le illve- stigaiidis niaturae iysterniis ill ilabricatidis ko is corlorilmls or- gaiucis serullo fit, p)1'.le CelriiS (Iiaiili itiluilika emine.i , (illis es(, (Illm iiesciatl! Obserlvadores, fill hli'hlioer evohiuiioiiis ;aki- iiialiiu pr fundamiensi oI la SIitps IrImt, !EST l 'RAI A c (1- demiae miemibra vel fiieriiiit vel adilaic siwil: ir semilpiler- .ae gloriac (CAS"Aii F'lhim Rhicui WoS 11'r. C}l ingeio pati ;; per.severaniaui< vero ill in1ve(ti'.l;;lidi;s reb}[is subiis)I mI;9;|;s 1iiliji l),aremii vidit orl)is terrarutn. Cii,jlls ikomnls .site rehigiosa illa vere- Cundi(lia eminiikciare iIe(Jtico , (Jila res diviike ori,rgiiis v (ileralniir eI CiiIIS I IAN US PANi)DEll ad Cil CijlS Chl;iSSilil;a ("1 llceull lenie- bris .tflereiues disjl-iisilionies (Ie Inilli evoltliioine anllsall qua- lIlCIiitcm Il b)CalO jib lenlkpore prac.)Imisse. (1110 1GTNATII DO) U1;- L--NGAli "ikrl,istSi niosiri a(I ciIiiCrs iisqiie, iiunrillialk ver'o pro iiiiliS Salis colIlCIHI, ilStililiiloe cI eQilksiIelli(lille ilSi SillilIlS, sem1wiiCr glorial)or. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Colatigit miilui etenjim, ut ov.i inaininalium 'et lhoininis pri-t ilitrtdla in ovari( ilivenirem, qiiae p)er saeculormln seriem t)t et tantis lab)orib)us fiustra (pIItesita stint. Circa bam ilein 1rm ,11 t- rae scrutatores (plain inaxione (lissentire inater onmes coLstal1. ClDiijani ex a uiqijitate notiiioi esset, vitelhliiii aviiiin il) ovario iauilirescere, tuirni per oviductuim devectiii, allbunIiie et i inidhs Ipirte iferiori vel sic dicto iltero testa hi(diii, 11 E.- NER Dii GIIAAF9, v-esictilaritimn ii1 ovario maiianinaliif iinl -si 1nonl ill- vetor, prilmlils tamien accuratior observalor, 110m1 p0otul1i lo1 Ia.s pr' ovis liabere; et cuini praeterea ova in cmncilortiioimlii- ULs iidissel, inilii.s dIiI)ibtavit, haec ov-a eas(lenil esse vesictilas (Ie- Ila)sas. CIII seteiifiaiC, a inultiis p)hysioI(ogis receptae, p)oslatC coIItraria exstiterijiit eX.clta experinenta GUILIELMi CIIUmI - SHANK, qIIi tiii(;mie saeIptIs ov-a in tubiS cuniciuloruin, vesicuIis Graafiaiiis taiiiein 1iiliho niutiiora, observavit. Nostris temlp1)oriblis Criiksliankiania asserta a (IOlbi)us ob)servatotibuI)s accuralis et mii- croscopoi uIsiIi q1lai31 Iniaxime assuetis, Pi11 I,l' Vo.ST C D I)uMAS. coiiiprobaca sililt il caiiilbiis et cIuIIiciiiis. NCscio ergo. (Ji(i) fit() sedctic6is s,.it auchor iiovissiitiiis , qImi aittiquissimiaiii CraafRiarim SeCIlItiit;I p)r() nova vendidItit, ol)servatiommIIIl a liabita ratiouile. COIiIphiires ailatomiiCi saeciilo (decimo septimo ova nmami- nlilitimil irltistra ill 1tibis (1taesiverbimt. et Iand(klIm l)praeotmliie *1Cer- 111( PIHILIPPO JACOBO IHARTMANN Ile(riomotitruio, fideil oIniiIm oI)semr aiiilmtis II EG(NEIIJ-. A)E G FIA Al" (ICI1(;irUnt. Paticiores ei jalim catiores saceulo deClilO)lo odlav *1 i1ono0 O- dem nitodo contia C UtIKS14ANK C4 egeruiiI. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Sic lis adhuc sub judice est. Id (antum extra omnem dubltationis aleam posilum videtlur, vesiculam Graafianam ali- quid ad ovi evolutionem conferre, quia post corceplionem in corpus lutenm inittatuir. De mnodo, (111 i ex *esictIis 0a or- antuir, (IuIate nostris tempo)0riIuIls -ale.lt opiniones potiores inter aniatonlicos. Alii pultanl , vesiciahs (arafficemas %itellfs avalllnu Iemlits responzi(lere elt hl.ui(him ililUIVIIIIIIIk'l 9|libranu|glal C'irC11110- da;tum| iergro Xs rilh f Omn i, *a tula) reilpi. thauteC scitellC111im ipse IciuMisule 1;ni ol. collspalciolil SiuIIiliI(iiIudneI 'ititer ovaria u,kitm.lliail et a1viumIt Wimmulyltle evolutioMlefil. Aliu litiutoresit taniwalii vesicilarniun eicici el per se iel cinl sernline d-rili uanix- tuiti 0111111 irin are inter ul;as crediuuit; ite cos d'caiut, (plli spretis ob)servatiouJlbls Ifiidalis, et miulla r;atione keiitiiut ex- tra-uteritiormnll ht;)ilta ovea ill iii(Tl-O) grgtla pl)ta;i}. I)e ouulis a Cesieldlis dli1el.sis in ovari( Om1iis IX I\llntletiO fit a1) antioribuis, iiiter qiios 111u1111tittiiitt auitil eitii (Ii iuliia ra foiwasse -ilit, sed tamt ittale desCripsit, tit obsrl;t ol ejos oulminlo InegleaI sint. Quilmus pi niastsi.s e.1, (11l lpC ipsee C(gritIIVi , einrr.are Ii- ceat. IncipiialltttS tii is ttt4ltiu1IilflI? et ab mi" Jal plitiofl traflse;ttllix , (111i;ii IIc t, C gl (piulfe (letmollstraho, clar0iorl fient. EwLuamllk 1 i%altt i"I (1iS41iiiSt1tilJls i')Si5 .e(giui Coutlttus1 qualaliti potIipol In litn V a nuau oli 1 n)dereCasut PtbIt(lt'uC(s iII non oilali uita serie perse(fiii posui-SIsII. uIteIIttnilt'l Il.r Camliis ova potilsi,1i1uuuit evalunuuai.. (h w1uu tl t W1 11lal plurimioruim etatfei iu(I icareC 11011 powli. UNi de Ilac re cer- tior eramf, cUrm ob$servali)lOibuls a PUt 'VOST P.T D D MAS i11-titii This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (is earm non coinselLtre experuiss siui. Q'iiod num fe coeli di- crlitate peiideat nec nel, nesc. Reluitioniem hac ex causa noni ad termpora sed adl evYolJionins statim (ledi. CeneiSeos OVI 1IM1arnrn1lium historiaini me ad tyradum qileil- daim eri'Lsse spero, el quae tie e.a locui, errore graviori premri non tanieo. Qu.ae. vero ullima paragmrapho d& owis aninl.ium ilferiorum orolinum pro(luli, eumnX in) linem aiantum olici-a esse acciialais. ut Cmct-)tcralam vesiculae Craal'aa .iuni )O twO avtium ct reliquomuin aiiinalium dtemiiollstrarenm, ilerrlm iterlimfflye Vo s rogo. qQiim ConeOr(liarn o)servaiiiJonihus p)S 4jiIe1IS Waitia in twiVS reIiojuOlum 1T Miirnalimiin Inivenii. qae.l lfthiicsPiCe omI-1ralo1 icrn(Ka. erantXl u1 immi-t,l; ,crTitaitres ad. .|iii- lZlCjl. V ^b1ke i.sil( .l-i- gatliotes adhomrwari hlialld llurpnili rnihii videreetir. Me lhan dlis- oIIIi?itiO)lm Ic n s1o11 J vI i. se. .seot iichoiasse lauii licet non parl11111 [i 4)111llll 11111l- 11111 il) fit div r) evollitilli.i i Sl taCi ohserva- veriill. ba1d i- 11i0Pr). Observata msipprinere tleamet n110111ii .41 adl cmnpl)araiimlernm pIryaPlafitaua siifhotiieil e1 (plia oqtilIle (liffiCli. lec n1jutis viri live i111105 aiiiii aSSe, li.n le d iSiyisio^lit .SiPii110.9 siianc inniieisi-s Sane t ichiihi j&sI absl)Sver'e. ov:a 111lilll allll.l fla allulaia;llizzll 4i14 1.01ios1,1 110)11 tlautll(I e'kilialelt (ki teillillate oll10s e,l fioieinta iiotsIora iludilrio laciuiimi, uf ver- )bis vil in iIkili1)is dhibqIiisiCi0)J1ibIr. allaWtii's iIViS VC11sI.l1 itar. sed el in ate C lde dIiSCPlp;aillt. Wixiiii Veio( dlilciZil,ias in Co n i ti0tu11 rq$ii piet 1 r1 d4 r)u)ll) 51r ( pianali (omla)samru {}Y 0'l $'I'i.} 0li-S. emullararl'Be' po}s*imUS. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Fe.1m* cQantilu i prim ordiUa, Jam priiuo fere imupetu, quo a collega illustri BURDACII mnonitus, ut. ai1 cognosocenidain nanintualitim evolutionem aliqliuid conferrem, hlis im-e- stigratioliduhs ne tardare iticeperani, coitem praegnanten' obIeQri'e licuiti, Cii- jus ova niulluni I[rolilil'int il coIImpar'anlda evolutioie mamimnaliumi oHm eadenm ill ravibus. hliio, analomeai liujus evolimlioni's grAh.LS pielle absol- rerU, si liUltui tempuorims jaml salis 'ii his disqui-sitionlil)lbs vei'saILs fiis.setu. Ex quiatuor ovis lero bia, a 1 m al cilioto tsus, tlestruxi, quio factuma e-st, ut. arcact vascuilo.sae aillibihIIIII i(i;eain'e niC iieqiienmn. In uteruim eiiim cani vivae er1epIIum, o0k111i vitalilate, p)rae(litum, ilnCi(di, quiod liodlie valdle dissuadeo. Jni i in reliqllis 1i1imumalnib>iis dillicile scopUtni liac via attianges, ill Calle vero semper ova juiniora contractionibus uteri (lil!aceanitiir, quiod et 'is accid1isx( vi(letur1, qIjli p)ttrilms hllebdolmllna(iI)l1s pIost coftceptionem ova iU uitero animiai litun liIon iliTerue-nIIlt. (6o6finger goelchre fnzeigen vomn Jlhwe 1 824, pag. 1935). Teritiu (1W das horas ex tilero, i-ilie jalm ex-perte, enucleare sitiidii. ULteii coriitx stipria o0-u11 cautissime Sdisso,01 o1 i memlbranIaml externamuin villis iiuikcrosis praedifaiIn iftaciamla dlis- tincte con1spexi, (itDaliu vPJr0, tut(r'o Oll)lilliO sepiosilo COIIemllan)1.ts, teri Inargillilhis, q1i -villi.s i11 alissimiu janii jGcta- elr.llt, rm'etr'li.s, di.s'imllpi ldi ! lFetlmi t.n:llen integruml iltveiii et aream rasculoxs.na splenidide ru- iutlet'l uillIamiraluIS s5ii11. QlIir1tmlII1 ule 4tiqeC ovi1i post meridirlia ex ltero jPull pauilidilil 11c(cilo inlegei't illllmiml evoll i. |11 esamililldis ('I delilleall- t1i.s IIIe'mlbrmii ;alii.xfll^I(pe Xl relm }ts ho.9 llll (Otlio Cm-IIO esl't ly tit, il rlilnl 4d{ (|tllE ;l{ l{ A NIIl'lt ph.f'1 {} 4 l re p)s'1' 1 lli'')c(O }U k Ik. ' lle.b t MllUS HIn)ItIIAIII 1-ildl;l ;IIIII)HIPSf dli-MI-1'll{V'( P-MI){!j(n'll 'it"'c'} ;Ill 1Iio ri;Ciliqlielre malus; still. Ste( melliodhime eumn'a0 obser atla Ti iuj heiiOi i ds otmBilm AN ( rviin ilatNnts *lixit (an. 'loi*. qX.) l otd r ob}sen-aionlm?IIs BoJArIi (in Notris Ychv it( Cf ;rJ. 7/'Vs8. X.) tx tnlemPore I This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions iteriori, et Conjinetorwum amicortun PREVOST et DUIAS ex temlpore aute-c cedenti (Jnnales des sciewces atitreles, Totte III.) sattis bene conigrullit, miinine iero ctin reliqtis meis experimentis, quae viginti (juattior circiter dies his ovis (darlent. MIitto uteri conditioniem et omnia , qiiae ton jpelrtinlent a(l proposi- Itun Inostrumn. Otum lU mtaIittilfine siua (Ile)iCtiiii iicituis Fig. It1., binis apicilbis pelluci(dis, altero acutioie 1prcdteditin. Prateter apices totiuIn ovum obscuriits est villis membraiuve exterime aifixis, iani zona p1acentarim mnna- x.ui.nu ovi pmrtem primituis cilgit, titi jalll ex BOJANI icoutibus coiistat. Tmuicae duae praeter apices siatis (listaiut et fiicile di-scermintur. Quarnum exteriol, (horwin vulgo (licta, omnino vasorum expers v illos gereus, tiliuicae corticali vel mieinbhranae putlaniinis (S&kalelnhar) avium respondet, qutae nona secitis vilos gerit, in testa cialcar;ia lecontlilos. V-illos chlorii, corum fornia in lioininie et fugitiva exanmilntiolle se(iieli, mllatotuici noniilulli pro mieris vsisorumn linil)us idel pro vasor'tun t.sciciiis ls J)Imbe. Quallu senlleni- wiiam ftmeile et in aliis mammaulibus, verb)i caus, in sUib)us et rumuiimaulib)us, relmiaIdiaim Ovliul iostnritn ol)tiuIb dissoh it, Halml ijllos lime ex telli for mun.l- tivam comitilttiuos esse sinie tasorum vestigio microscopiurn extria (Il1)iialioIIis imleicamu pollit (Cf. Fig,. /1 ). Postluac vero vasorumi ramuis ftidiluini Irtilem prac1bet. HLmec inembranam corIelialfel in posteleuIII nomijiuiibo , cuIn *ox ,,chrii'- anteps sil et si canI imore solilo adbibiere placet, iiu(le ab (to ten- pjore adhibeatlurl, 4Uo viasa imistuint, ab aliatuloide, miie jud(ice, sumppediiata. Membraim interir' uti(Itie sa(XIium constuluiemis, j)aululum hla escit et grimuilis superhici sua1 intelrima obsita est. His jalU nwmteobrananm eiWlhro- idtein -et,I vivsculam umbiicalem se probat, qtuibtis vtsorum rele ct ratio adI eOiPI)voiiit-il accedit. Ut lliolilie ultmnuir, (tu0o( t iiS ailhiOalib)us adllhi- bern lpossit, luihus uiiibilicus verus dicest, saccus inlesdnalis (Darinsuak) Enibryo, qItmiaor lineas curvaturat aeqtianis, inmtre funicum corticaleml ,l Saccula- itnfedinalem locuIm teliet, etil satcco diclo ilan :onicluctms a, ptul- -ins galiiaeuCtis CXcHlte (Iie terlio. Eoderm niodlo picrle. stia posleriore rectt (2 ; liuetruill) ientii apewlo Uicmtuiit, (lOrStIi jaimi claisuom timicie cmlii- alli adver fi, paile aiiteniore, vqgina capitis obtecia , dlexitorosniaii el (leon.- This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 3 suM versa , lateri sinistro incuinbuit, ul)(iuCe aiea vascuiosa circuludatusx. I28,,Ir( nlostira 7. fetuin in situ tiia'tali exhihet, se(1 pars awnica juisio bre- 'iomr videtiir, (piia sacco hilesthimali cuiiii aminiiale capilis va-hia imiimera esf. Fg'ura '1IP. fetuimi pingit cwII parne Sacci iistlsill;lis itat Sul) lmliCrO5COj)iO p)ositulm, Ut p)ar anilei'ioi' penlitus ei palrs posterior pauiulum lateri siiisti'o incumbat. In liac positionie min.is c(OlsClselis itliel' evolutio- ietm pulli aviuin et mammaliumn optime persp'icitur. - Ilicip)iamus cuni I mgi.a cjl)ilis b c d e, cujus dimidium fetus cap)iit el collunt (lexIIo latere Ohte-eiis resc'elii, ut parles hae clarius in lucenii veoiren, illaeso vineie iC11;n (leseei)deniiis dexti'ae wtrunco, quem i'ecliiaii (ef) nie ejus con- niexuIs cuIi COI'dis atrio, trans vagiinae initium, beite visus, tumrhetur. Lo- cuan, queni ante recliuationene, tenuerat, signlo f noltai. D)cnudata iha- quie corporis )alrte curvata optnme in oculos cecidit cor(ris atrium (e g) veiuas recil)ieIls, cl v-enitriculus (h) a sinistro ad( dextruii latus in spiram tortu.s et ita ac in pullis aviumn, (lehiciente p)ectore, a corporis Iateribus nto1 tCctuni, XStatuii l1uIIc coI (deiiudatun (I;Cele r solent; attanfien v(er ni(Iulil cor esse non ipotest, quani(do capilis vaginia jani p)ectoris regiowem anuigit, (uarc cor, si un( uaii, pCeI bre%issimum ce'lte teCip)ori5s spatliml, et tantium ini i parte venosa, v-eie nutIum est. In inosti'o feti p)raetelr cit ict- lcihil pectus legentem janm tenei'rimunt pericar(diunm (ii) adest, ((iiot1 ante atrium et ventricldum flisthiouitu'. Ex coride syslete a arteriosunll (ellierge- I'C vi(di, quod-utrimnqe in quatn1or arcus ftnditui, twill, u1ii in piSCiils, sul columnma veriebrali in truiicuni comminem (1) - Aoi'tai - collectos. Ex arcu anterio'i i'amus a(1 cap)itis partem anterioreni - ad oculun fe're - vertitur, secuCi(lus ai'cus antne autris vestigiumil, leatlinis pone idena orgailoll ramulumn millit. Primus et secundus ar'cusi uiiius(lue lateris ex b)lilbo) (111o- dlam (k) enmergunt. Idem systema vasculo.suln ill pullis gallilaccis saplillts obser'averi'int et jain .aestate 1826, aIIIe(qu1ant1 HUSCHKE inveia snaz. 1w11- ldli('i jul'l-s 15ecer'at, exeircitatiOi(es fltt'as ('11111 RArTIIKE coIItWuitwi(vtri, adji- ciewE nie pulllare, bio;|lmihia ab1 t-o dlectal; lilsiis l;abricae oI'i,ll('llll fiebere''(, de( (IUO puosthlac p)enuifus Iei'tiO(ItIIIC l (le (I (Isis I X'25, 1p. 747 et I I 00). N uno lbace sCr'ib)n'l4()o itltl,t sy.stelila. I. asoi-'u11m ill etllb)Iyollibuls l)ms tnimi'i'i.,s Colunbri Natricis et La'eulae agilis parulmU disC('IT'.lis obsem'.avi. DPe I'aellis I This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 4 et salamandrs jaim dudum innotuit. Omnibus ergo aUim?libus vertebrati) s ;n statu Ietali talis convenit vasorum apparatus et in omnibussub capitis parte posteriori situs est, uti et in nostra figura aur's locus docet. lino cordis ventriculus, ne dicam capiti, sane collo respondet. Arcus arteriosi uutiuum oesophagi eicumdant, cujus adlius, oris locum tenens, anite hbd- bum k apertus, visus e.st. Spinae dorsi et mledidlIae spinalis culi cerebra curvaturas, nec non vertebrarum prinmordia ita me pinxisse pltte, ut coin- nentanio non egeant. Auris jan disltinctissima inedidlawn. ohlongatam in- dicat, quae, ni fallor, ninuims a medulla spinali dilffrt, quani in pullis avilil ex codem evolttiitiois stalu. Jam. ad partem rectant transeamus. Titestinnn totm, tultimo fine excepto, apertum est et ex asse iintestimunti avi'tm, uti a (.C FIUIDERICO WOLFF ex die tertio absoluto subtilisslnie deseribitur, et plingitur (Novti commenwot. acaden. Petropolit. Tom. XII.), refert. Seanicanalis enii1 est, culus fundus sulco levi notatur, quem VOLFF SlutIIIuI nomnilaflt et e xoa- litione duarun pticarum amnii sui spurii ortmtu putat, qti veiro jlfne ori- tur, tuod sub rhiacluhde binae taeniae sacci intestinalis, e situ horikowuali in situim perpeldicularem vertantur, parietes ijudie senmicalialis constituentes dunw mpjorem crassitiem induunt, et mnagis magislue angulk et tenuissiano toro trainsilum- in saccum intestinasllein notent. Seetione transversa haec optiane (lenltonstrantur. Sic Fig. rll'. intestini funditim (sutunrim) al f; et angulum, de quo locuti' suinus, a(d e exhibet. In Fig. nostra TIP. e p fund(lus vel sutura inte.stiini est; pnriruique ischisas vel taenias s 1, q r, inltestnlimutascentis parietes, acu patululuan separavi. Fascia sinistra e p q r anlguilo q r in saccun inte,stinalean (tv v) tranisit. A) angulo (s 1) fasciae dextrae saccum intestinaleln usque ad r desecui , nie fetts latus cImu amnio veletur; vasorum origines tainen indicare aptuaIn esse l)utavi. Utri'inque eniml in sacco intestinali r(ete vasoi'tm (w v) apparet, quod per truticuilos plures (quoruw septem atdl ittias sinistrum, sex ad dextrum nunieravi) cum truIcis majorlibus in fe-tia sitis comniunicalur. Regio inter rete vaIsculosum et fetum (q i- w) aireae, quana pellutcidam dicunt n avibus, respondet, licet liuc plurilPus vasis gaitdleat. Rete vascu- losun arean vasculosain aviunm sistenas per plures hlorits optnie quidenl This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions vi(i, ihnes titmen exteriores jain d;iscei'nere lion p)otui; miuOris fruisse ani- bittus, ratioiie a(l fetum habita, (quamn in avilLts, jamn inspectione teruii ovi anite mnicr'OsCOp)ium adhibitur persuasulin mildi Ili)CO. Et sinitn termina- lem mne 1'i1idse mcinin, (le quo co minius (du)ito, cuiii et Saurii ct Ophi- dii eo iioll careant. Intestini parietes y r et 8 t jam crassiores erant, quani tit vasoruin trunicos sub iis recondulitos clarissiine (liscernere et in toto nexIu perse(jui potulCriin, (lUos tamen vi(di san-uin'is laud exl)ertes, qutos pro aortae ramis p)rincipail)Ls liabui (de (quibus cf. PANDEII, Blrhiioe zutr L'nlvickclwngsgeschichle (des lliihnchens ins Eie. - Iib-zuJrg 1817. ieol. TAb. octav.); -enae scilicet in bac perio(lo sanlguinem citius amit- tere solcut ac arteiiae, o) cor(dis vim sane suictoriail diuiius persistentem quam vita in ramulisn minoribus. Trunculos ergo descriptos (w) pro ar- teriis snlsi, licet venae inter CQs esse possint. Va.s Tero a posteriori fine circa caudlae involucrurn (dCCuIrrhns tum ab uitestini crassi aditu (r) ocu1- lixs stul)(buctwuu, vena vistum *.st adscendeais. De venis bini; (Isdecendlentil)us jamii locutits suim. In vagina calpitis milores aiteriarurn fines adiuisse hau(i dIUb)ito. 4nnion dorso tam arete inCUlbUit, Ut ante incisionen iLws tanium lociS (liscerini posset, quilmlLs curvaturantm (tuand(laiu fetus liabet, V. g, m medio dorso, si i0oin fallor, adi tran.situiin ne(lullae oblongatae in colpora qua(tri- geiniina (?) ct ad1 liorumi transituim in cerebrum t? )., potissinuarm vero ,A fiUtls liiienm posteriorem, tubi involucri caudae laniinarn format supe- iio-'eiu. Ubique jani clausulm crat et suturam lIau(1 amplitis iuiveni. Proe- terea eademn ratio ejus ad1 letuiain atque in avil)us, (de quo coiaf. sectionem lrail.sVellusal (Fig',. Vll &.). Nuillus ergo (duI)ito codeuim nxlo evolutuini esse. Sacnsulus iniimrns (z) ex apice caudali vix einergens et involucrurn (I.lidiet ill suzas1 linuas tindenls sinie dubio ineinbrana allantoi(des et,, quatn, cunm ry ilhoiidem saccum inlestlimilem nonliihtveril, seaUea urinariuen (Ilarnsaek) dlici v'e1iix. Parthiun internarmu coniloriauatio iaul minus cum avicularia coni- grit, ut1i p)oli*snimum .sectio traiinsversIa dlocet, quam in medio dorso fCa tanm leig. I'll . phixi. D)orsumun ex coincretlis dIual)us Inini.is dlorsalidlIs (pdliei.l prhisnlivi PANDEIu) '(i b) nmedullanw mpinalen (k) circundantilms This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions con.stitliftit"l 1'.1111111ik tVenlr;i-dibu (bs c) a(illticsummnnopsere dlist.antibusl>. .Subl c.aIali pro medluI' a .'piiiali columtliae 1-eitel)ralis prl)lia ve'tigia appa11'IlI (g) e i1a formnaivra deQ1Ixiore( ('oncrtef, quac ramnos lreves .iaasimaium ila- niiias (1o01aI.e iiiiiiiiiit. Ii miiedia colminna erltebrali (corda dorsalis e- ai.tis obseuritate snita ill coll-Spectunll veauit. Est enini in omnllibuis nimnia- liUlil i'cib'telwatol111le asls (uld in mnainunalibus, av ibus , ophidiis, wsmiiis, l)atrachaiis, itec noni piscibus observavi) clorda (qum-amd ter-es a cauinda a(I calpuat Iuisqte, in quio cull tul)erclulo d1e.*ilnh, per mdIllliluln coltmmmia (lorsa- lent exitensa, ah hlac soliditate lballd minus a1c Iracilitale 1010 (Uol O dliversii et ante verfi'tdlutimai veCtigia oiiuiiii(la , (11111 tolumniiaia ('aIailagineo - liga- mentosil, q(al ill p)i.%Cil)b1S cartilagineis itoituuillis, v (!. ill Siirion el Pe- ItoIUnzote.ZOI, per'1 101m1111 vil'.1a ill spilla;u (0lSi obi ial est. p)ellllus Collngrlua In pullis gallinacis('S jalni prilo illUhalioniis (lie formaitultr loJiie atie lami- tarliunrt dI0o'Sadliumii coaliltuiti. Hlaec chordis liuctis(qtue penilus 1 ere neglecta (DUTROClIET sotlUll Oam Cogiaoriisse se(I nioni in primiordio, ex ob.servatio- nibus ejusdein circa ossitnun geniesiii in salaiuanmdris vi(deo) saepius fW0I1it natlrallrc ScrutIatores. lila siICe ( ei,O pSt n PANbEIR pro mIiedilfla spi- niali hlauit al n iamedtillami .spinMleun 11011 ante Jiminaruim (lorsaliun 'oa- litumtt arpparer pace clai'r iluli SEunER S euero certins compertinm hab)eo, et tlui apparuit, acua IiWI(1Uuaii l)iscnn('lit. est. 'Eandemn cliordam PHt1vOST et DUMI A.S in rixiiis (liam pro nie(Itilla spinali habuertnt. (rinnale's des se;ienies nir(iIiielle(. 'l,e HI. j1. 113. vsqq.) In his omlnibus gra'iio'ioribus rgo ema b 1 o canlimis ctnm aviculario congruit et dlillerentia in aUihuu latilunli partium raIionii1 * ersatiir. Sic iransitus dorsi in nuclham niagis curvilus, cerebrum vero iiiLus a mdWut(lalIi vpinali (diflerre vi(leiur ini ibo q(iam in avibus CiiuJl(eian ulleli oloaplaf x gr(11,1d1u assecutlis. Area Iteilcudla et area vasculosa aninlores ei rajnli arlte- rsi0i plti( .s -adsutil 111 icale. Quo 110(10 hi in vasa ompl)halO - 111n.Sielilterita %el.uuttur, ultleriorib)um^ examllinibu.s li;ju(licaiitltuit reliji(guo. Qu)ite (cumI11 ilta a ii11 essenlt i111(hnlda, val(loper'e ol)tvi 0-a0 examsil- 11.lr1 qna lptemediIumt( Itnerell iitter illo(lo dldsCipl)ta ci ea , quale P1uu,O.Xr I)u DUMAS Ill 12 (lieruna ova -descripserunlt et piaixermint. Canein er-go dis.secui pjer1 diaAs hebfdomnades et q(ioll excuriit felani. Seo ova in utera This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 7 libera parvula, diattietro linearm diii(liam expletiiia, sine tillo f tus ie- stigio inlveli, (le q(ul)us iuifra serino fiet. AIterit callis ejtsuleni gravidi- tatis teniporis eadem (ledlit ova. Cauient dleniiue culltio antatornlico subjeci, (quam oljtime scivti (in mnea eniun domiio viveldt.) aiite vigitti (lies priuna vice et ante seplen(lecim dies ullima vice cmu nimare coivisse. D)eniuo spes me fefellit. Ova (luaruan 1inearuain diatnuetri janm tarn arcle utero cingeC. baiitur, tit irrita omnli cura (lilacerala sint. Quite nielitis observare licuit, fetun.u nondtun fovebant; in umn talantuin stri.a teiiuis (chor(la (Iorsalis?) cuni airea qjuadamn opacat felus printordia indlicare vi(lebatuir. Nec, blasto- dierma clare apparuit et circa banic parteni oniiino diubius Iiacrerem, nisi earm in cuniculis vi-disseni. Ex lhis oa ejusdlem evolutioiiis facile et sine laesione evolvi, quia mnembrana corticalis crassior et 1iuiiinisi tantui vil- lis obsita erat. Ini ovis no.stris cwninis metnbbrana corticali.s tenerrima vil- [is suis magnis cutn uteri cing,ulo lam arcie cohaerebat, tit vix ars ulla ean- sejungere posset. Si ca iniente recordlor, quae de ovis 12 dierun PREVOST et DumAS docent, suispicarer iiu mea cane ovoruin tunicas prae- ter naluram et sup)pVesCsa fetus evolutione crevisse; viii enini jam eow fere ae(quabant, qjuibus ova ii1itio descripta obsita erant. Practerea icoines fetuum caninorumn, quas laudati scrutatores Gallici exbibuerunt, cum meis observationibus ex uilleriore et ainiecedeuite evnolu- iionis slalu aIam bene congruunt, ut 'non laesitem, utiam in tabula nostra Fi,,g. 6. et '1. rep)etere ad complendam seriem lormarttm. Docet enint I('Itum caninum codem modo ac pubos aviuin oniri. (,)tuibtts aniimo perpensis ioni (duibiltvi ovum maminlnitum in ovnaia eatidetti habefe con(litioien, qpiain ov-um avium. Longe falia docitit ohi- serva tio! 9. '2. Ovi caniti-i evoelttio prbi/lleia. Praeter ova mo(to dIescriplalt Xs.apitts ItlI;I vidi ; pellillis pelilut-ida, uill- to mitorit, diudlidiall lineanm dialmalro aeqtialil ( Fi,. S )( Ijllae lail liheriv This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 8 - in uteri cavitatte jacebant, ut levissino Ilatu in liujus orgairi nmco ulos eri i-el cultelli.'wanubllrio facillime atiolli po.sseult, aItlqu( ta)in toier'lrimli.s mem'1- branig comstiluta erauit, ut quinis lialus formaui inutlaret codemire i(io utodo .c bullae sap)onaniae; quibus; fabricandis et pe atrewn agitala is puiieni gau- dent. Sul) microscopio tvtle ovuml haud peitliis globosumi iil eni, sed paultltiu ill longitin(Iileut I)otiUS tllCictii. Priliuo illottWeito silIpieX vi(le- bmtur tuniiea, iniox ver;o et jamI anite eain temiporis parteli,, quae ininula (licitwi', lipsi'm i;tt"'teii qa epiae( la itlilita sejunigt,i cocj)it ex opfpositis Inn- bug,S uti' FZigD. I". *locet. I-aciutiii ijitle ltiiii lli(ie orminii est- -signio- idewuu. Ambo hbaec va;cua tiiut pledetenltim ittreveiitut tisquiie (luin se tan- gerent, ac poSt s.emilior'ai jaim totat m bCIrniaita imitterna ab externa se'ju- cta repreelindelailur, una tanturl i'egioite excepta I (,pua Colmarerel perge- bant. Adspeclus oii ileo (diver'S1iS ertt (hkiIi acu suib miicroscopio verte- hatur; ittox CItiMfl areitit opacau c ut ite(lio sitarn et telu annulo pellucido ciictain os-tendit, n1iox Vero 01'lbeilt -OpaCutI ill oIbe IUCi(IO hta sitilmn ut iit se ii ttitgei'Ceit, ill(le vIacuo mtaguo semtilitari sejungereittur, pr'out r'egio aidhatesioiis ill ai lmiCr'OSCOpio.i0(p' 0pr 111) (IIICtIa siit t crat 1c II(C. Onliels lios adspeclLs pinigtere itec tiabulae r'atio si$i11it le tile lieslfl i ('st. Pv- tiores vet-o lta)Ct is, si E' mras JJi. IJi. J'. J . itter se c(o1m- parart'e p)latCet. ldteimi elil lit in ovo muinor'i, iiifa (IaSdcril)bteIo. Loll mitiae 11V}'LIti prIilllzllll membralll a 'mtltiierna. coIIllabilm, ita, ut pede1Uten1tim1 .sphaer'ticaml foi'mitiii (oIiitiiito d(plloat sp)eciellmque siltCi in (111o0 iS o0o alioo 1 c0(10 (:OllapSi itlduat. Hlae liuuwn liuilt, ietIttbrana extet-IIIa inilio fOt'Ittali seival sjltae- ricill, titiii ftialn colltbi itteipit et p)ost hor-as toinutllass i-tiis (oarclatur irregularibius. T6tle o0iim Fig. I"% p)iCtln vi(letis, Cujius dIitatmCIrus it dimlidial Ilnea{e partle- adz tClI'i.lli ('jusdem(ll mnIll-f'l.ll'e parleml dIim,inulta est. Quateimmtt Itijus phltaeiiomtteiti caul.sa Sit, VESTRO judicio (lijIl(ia(nldIlun sunfilto. (alorem anitiltlCt a(pillil firigidJ a, ill (ilit ovit sill) mticroscopio colttpllmla SOIC(IeIIfuS d(pImI'iti ilt(le(pl teitsioiteit t ct a )iiWI)in ol-oilim (di- ltiltUi , itilitli11 ilbo. Plwiinut; scilicet ova ex ultej-is Ilepromttsi (i:dore anaiit liol1l pll'llistai estttfis. "iI lStero refliaigeratioaitd eflivielda phlti- hIlli '1 it 1Qa sufficeret,lClS (it)ihltlUtt i fldgltitUIoiflm 11011 s (XtCdCleS jriituri cimi) This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions tfmporis flnolillto retrigeretur necesse sit? cur noni loluIll ouwn depri- nmitur luti lraepalrata anatomict caava, (juae, si halitu liuinaino extei-l {tiilitiir, IlnOX CoIlalitii1ur, Nv1 Si ae-stlate (Onsecta et caute ai;re atmosl)bae- rAc0 ex( i aII?sa O II'Iia) slic;and i lti hene servaint, lhieme taiunen inagnas impres- sions U1panci%suntur. Ut olmervationil)us de bac- re aliquid statuerem, se- mel triliorio post uteri exuisionem ejus cornu aperui et ova flaccida qui- dem inveni, mel)nrianae vero, exceptis finilUs op)ositiis, cobaerebant (ut in Fig. F i.), Ce lnesci noi sejnctio in fiiu.s eo tempore sit facta, quo iicroscopium adaptavi. ). Rerigerationem ergo ad membrauarum sep)arationeml et collapsumn haud sullicere arbitror, praesertim ea perpendens, quae de serj)eretibum la- certisque narralo. (Cf. ?. 6.). Meml)wana externa potius aquami hmlbiere duim vtaitaltis aliqlui(l inest, et saccus interims Ialitliu qualenicunulqle vitalem a?miittere -idettti, (Jli al) a(qtua fortasse extraltitur. Id praepriniis ova cuniculi dluas liueas diatnelro aequallia, parvulis villis ex pante jain obsita docuerulnt, cuin in iis, collat)enti mnembrana interna, externa non tantum turgidta miineret sed inagis tenldi videretlu. Membhranas accurat ius p)erlustrando. exterioreu. pellucidam inveni et tuberculis minhiii s semipellucidis obsitam, primis forsan villoruin *esti- giir; 111nis eChill adliacreliant, quam quae pro copuitsculis extrauneis for- tuito agglutinatis habeautur. Numierus eortum part11s ct uti forma valde varialiffis. IMiemnbmiami corficalemt esse nullus dulhi1o. Bis Sgl) iuiCr'O.sCO- pio imnultuim aniplificante duias (liscreii striulas conceitnicas ac si ex (11la- bus lamninis conflata esset. Cuin vero simlilex moculbrana sp)haerica, quiae utrinque areani Ihabet p)ellucidlain, si su!) microscol)io valile amplificante observatur, duas- necessarie exinbeat uinbras, extenia scilicet et interna facie, ex liac observatione circa muembranuae Iamhias nihl colligi posse ceiseo. I) Iii alterum uteri cornti me )o.-t 30 lIotas unense JIinio, tempestate calidissina, incidiste, ne Unullll (Lititinu osmIU vidisse, licet qtunttor corpora Ilitea in r odeio latere aihieritit, eIuriumn in uisuIos , qul; talibt.is oIbservatiuiibwiv opera dare- ini aniiino Ilabeumt. refero, lie ilici- SiuneIII justo luoigius difleramio. Ova tuim teniniora citO corrutiupotutur. 2 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 10 Membrana interna sub lente simplici lepidlissimum praebet adspecutu dum turget. Annulis enim vel sphaeitulis, centro pellucido peripheria ob- scuriori praedita videtur. Quae maculae, si inajori microscopii vi subji- ciuntur, aliam exhibent formam ac si -metamorphosini passae essent. .Sunt enim nec sphaerulae nec veri annuli, sed ex grAnulis potius constituuntur in orbes irregidares dispositis (Fig. F.), unde sub minori visus angulo (Fig. V.):orhes continuos esse mentiuntur. Oculus microscopicis observa, tionibus adsuetus facile cognoscit, las inaculas non ipsi membranae esse innatas, sed ejus superficiei adhalerere interuiae. Major praeterea adest macula multo magis opaca, orbicularis fere. Qui actttiori visu gaudet, eam nu(li oculis uti punctulum albidum in ovo pellucido conspicit. M;crosco- piurn maculam a memnbranae supenficie interna paululurm distare lineola tenuisshna dernonstrat in eo situ conSp)iCua, (uO macula marginiem contem- -planti a(lvertit (Fig. Va.). Tum et teiujitias Inijus corpusculi apparet; discus eumii potius est, quam tunulus. Si licce (liscLs ita situs est, ut f a- ciern extenioreim advertat observatori, praeter orbeiri op)actuin ambiens halo lenuissirnis iionnunquain percipitur. In Fig. V &. hlalonein rudi modo scuI{}tipun videtis. Tarn subtilissirua ne.mo iisi D'ALTON scaipro rite red- dfeire valet. Membrainam rnteriiaan saccumn esse clalusum rix crederes si colla- pisain coiu(eiiiplairis. Dilaceiratione vero memnbranae corli(;alis de Itac re certior factus sum, et niihil obstat, (quini illa pro metuibrana vitelli habea- tur, el (discns opacus pro blastloderm ale. hi alia canle iliveili ova nminora, lertiaiin lieneae partem (liametro ex- plentia, qllae iiuiius attenite isIicielitem eflluigere po.ssIimt facillime. Non ita pellllci(la ermt, ac 1101o(lo desCripta, iius praeterea vIIl(e sinmilia, si Ilon forl{te i strictuins sphaerica. Eaedemi miembrai1iae CO(dCIIm 1110(1o (dishinCtae sunit sul) micro.scopio; illa taiaen graitla in corticalfis meinibraiiae suiperficie vix conspicua erant; niacu.lda parvae contra ill sIl)erlicief intterna sacci in- ter-ni ohsculioires sub mnicroscopio val1de unplificante uti acerviuli ie gratim- lis minorilbus couggesli apparnerutlit (1ig. Ii a.); blasto(lerma crassius ei, t q(lain ill aliltecedlilfblis, uite disci foirmain exitibuit, se(d 1Uniuli fuiformnUis ac Sai uon(1dull excilinis esst dismus. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions fit eotlenli utero a(I tubae ostiuml granulunii minimutit, albedine vero cons014pieuunu, libere natauis inieni, quof i microscopio subjectum globulum meiuttli opacunlI cuni lhalone *-el periplheria lucida monstravit. Quid ? si hoc corpunsculum, licet sit opacuin, ov-ums esset ex tuba inodo deal)asum? si globulus opacus viefllwn vel saccum intestialems futuruni et periphe- riin membranam cortiCalemt sisteret? His igitur cogitationibus iinpulsus caneni nilhi comparandi operanm dceii, cujus ova in tubis adlhuc retenta essent. QuoQd bene successit. Cat- netun eniin eini, in (Iluo corpora lutea valle hiantia, iullum ovujm in utero, in tul)is vero corpuscula alho - flaxescentia inveni punctiformia, quae granulum imodo memoratum ex asse aequabant, iisi quo(d hoc paululum majus visutm est. lila nunc futius describant. M1edium tenet globulus sub microscoplio penituis opacus, suuperficie noni laevi ct aequali sed granu- losa, totus eniml glohulus e granulis constat dense stipalis, membrana cin- gente vix conspicua ( Fig. III a.). Globulun circumdat, ulterjacente spatio p)ellucido arcto, peril)pheria qiuaedam, stratu tenmii granulorum mini- morum obtecta. Post nyetheunerac macerationem hujus pulveris majorem partem sejunctam inveni, qua facto membrana continua et simplex renit in lucem. Habemnus ergo nwenbranam corticalem et globulum internum, qui num omni careat cavitate me experimentiis eruere non tentasse ma- gnopere nunc doleo; - solidus quidem visus est, quo(I vero a sequenlibus refutatur. Quiem globulum vesiculae intestinalis vestigium, vel potius vi- tellun esse, j(am enarrata suadlent. Mira est ovorum nostrorum parvitas. Quae sub microscopio metitur sum, -T'7 lineae partem tantum (liametro explebant. Nihilo tamen minus o0) all)bedinem oculo nudo hene percipiuintuir,p qan(lo su.nt in conspectu. Facilliuie vero a tubae rugis et inuterjacentibus valleculis velantur. Sic faceil fiteor, nie tria tantumi Uhienisse, (0piuivis ex corporuni luteorumiU liU- mnero sex exspectarem. Frustranceamn tamuien operanm mnultorulm anatomico- rumn in ovis intra tul)as (quaerendi5s eo tanturn) explicare possum, quodi eos ova pellucida (uaesivikse suspicer et imd(le *era neglexisse. Num vero in ofinnibui5 inlanhhinlii)1u5 ova in Itibis sint opaca, nescio. Ova suilla in tubis liucutsque n1on1 vidi olh IuajoIein tenuitatein. Cuniculorwn ova in 2 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions tubis non qpiaesivi. CRIUMISHANK ilddz1ouOduml1 m;ncm (le iis tledit d1L.Scri- pt ionem: ,, 1w:e anution (vecsieula in es6ntinafis) miu(ie a centre spat" (Philos. Transactions for the Year 1797. pag. 208); p)iIIgit taimenl ita, ac si essent pellucida, untle *ero nihil coiicludi pQec4t, nain Pim;VosT (1 DUMIAS ova caninia in tubis vider uwt, certe, opaca, de (Iqio tYmen oI)ser- vatores tacent. '.R 3. Ovula in ovari'o cantino. Restabat ut de ovorim conditione in ovario certiorem me facerem; nam ova tam parva vesa'culas Graalianas ipsas ex ovario expulsas non sistere luce clarius visurn est, nee verisimile habui tam.solidIa corpu.scula iu tubis ex vesicularum fluiditate nio(do coagutlata esse. Oari.a contem- plans jami ante omnem incisionem in (qiacuniqlue fqre vesicula punctum luteo-album clare distimxi, quod velamentis vcsiculae nullo ino(Io atffixiun libere liqluori innatare pressio, specillo in vesiculam facta, manifeste do- cuit. Curiositate quadam potius seductus, quain spe inotus me nudis ocu- lis per omnes vesicularum GraaIi>inarumn tunicas ovula in ovariis vidisse, vesiculam aperni, de quo (lixi punctum cultelHi lamina (tam distincte illud vidi et a muco circumdante discrevi) arripui et microscopio subjeci. Ob- stujp)i profecto, cunm ovulum ex tubis jaim cognitum tam clare viderem, ut coecus vix niegaret. Miruiu sane est et inexspectatum, rem tam perti- naciter quaesitam, ad nauseam usque in quocunque compendio physiolo- gico Uti inextricabilem tractatam., tam faciUimo negotio ante oculos poni pos.se Ne longo sermone Vos, VIRi EXC)ELLENTISSIMI, teneam, ex multo- rum ovariorunm catiunorurn observatione )osthac instituta id tantum aflerre libet, qod Io ie ullum (uitlem inter ca crtat, in quo non saltem inonaiulla ovula, inlactis oi-ariis, nu(Iis oculis tianslucere viderini. In ctnibuts obesio- ribus piniguedo etiam ovariis non penitus deest. in his pasca ergo ovlda et haecce ab acuto oculo tdlibusque observationibus .ueto ante (iissectio- This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions nlem perCipiuinur. ldem fere -ylet( de ovar?is nonngllis, quorum rela- mnent&t nescic cur solito crassiora sn it, uti in cane quadam magna obser- vavi. In junioribus tandem canibus priina ice praegnanlius etiam pauca: animadvertuntur ovula;-nmn post prinum coitum, ni f;allor, praeter, ovula fecundata, reliqua si non na sci, cius tamen evolvi videnitur, unde for- tasse famosae illae observationes Anglorum Hom,H et GILEb intelligendae sunt, fetus serioris prneguationis nominunuam patrem primae sobolhi ejus-- dem matris referre. (C. uieriorein disquiisitionem BURDACHII in opere: Die Physiologie als E'rfahungswissiischaft, Bd. I. pag. 506.). In phIriius vero ovariis. canini.s complura ovula umudis quim etiam mediocri- bus oculis per tunics apparent, uti nonnullis ea demtnstr commiito nibus.expertus sum. AdhIWita lente vtitrea. in omnibus fere vesiculis, mi- niini vix exceptis, ovurun percipitur, si canis non prma vice fecun- dita est. Ovula ex ovario promta osis tubariis consimiI'a ese jam dixit centrinm enijn babent opacum granulosum cumm lialone. Ea tamen inter- cedit diflerentia, quod jila imbo lato circuindata sint:, qui augente i nmi- -croscopii e granulis semiipellucidtis conflatus apparet, atque tam amnte cum ovulo connatus est, tit semel modo rnembr ae exterure (corticalis) ali: quam patrtem prors.us denudare possem (41i. I) Peripherica ila conge ries granulosa non est globosa sed disiforinis, uti acu tenuissimno eam sub microscopio vertento didici. Planetae Saturni annulum ita refert sutb mi- croscopio, Ut BURDAc eam mecum observans lane sinillitudinem iisdem fer&o verhis observaret, quibus ajm diario notavemam. Ovlda in vesiculis caninis magnitudine secundum evolitioneml variant. Majores (sine dluiO aetate provectiores) dia-unetrt '-- lineae Parisi'-* nae adwbitt mjinores, 'quorum centrunm uimin- opacum e1fst, vix i" lineae partem. Lamina annularis, quam diseum prolfgestm nomininabo, "in omni- bus adest, in junioribus tenuior, diametro ouluIN mIis circiter superante, in provectioaibus obseitmior, pon senper eadein ratione a1mbiu suo crescens. Media pars, quae ovullo arcte conjulncta est, manifeste crassior existlit ovu- nniqutle ita,1cingt, titi limbus artilicialls lelteim vitre<mn, si iion, qtod ma- gis.s ithuc arridd, oviY supeIrficein iufiorent psut1lis O(lucit. Ito cuiwilo, This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 14 de quo mox loqueemur, canes sine dubio non carent, licet non tamn pro- mnineat quam in plurimis mammalibus. Ne autem, quae in canibus faci- lius inveniuntur, his propria credamus, aliorum mammalium ovaria perIul strabimur omniaque, levibius varietatibus exceptis, congruere inveniemus. t. 4. Yesiculae Grufianae quomodo construetae sint, el de ovulo mammalium gevne;'atim. Vesiculae Graafianae m canibus nimis parvae sunt, quam quae cum magno successu examinari possint. in suibis vero saepissime et accuratis- sime, credo, eas invesligavi. Cum his vaccas, oves, canes, cuniculos, erinaceum, delphinum, ptocaenam nee non hominem comparavi, in omni- busque eandem constare structuram persuasum niihi habeo, quamvis in minoribus non omnia strata ita benie separare contigerit ac in sue, vacca et delphino. Vesiculas Graafianas ovariis plus minusve insitas esse prout major minorve telae .fotmativae vet sic dictae cellulosae copia adest, easdemque tempore oestri venerei et post conceptionem magis turgere, ex ovario emergere et deemum aperiri, inter omnes constat. Curn ea ovarii pars, quae vesiculam circumdat, hujus vi in involucrum tnutetur partem vesiculae tegens, in describenda vesicula ovarium negligi non licet. Ad quamque enim vesiculam Graafianam emergentem duae pertinent partes, pars includens vel putamen, et pars inclusa vel nucleus. Puramen constituitut partibus adscitis i. e. non vesiculis propriis sed ad ovarium ipsum pertinenlibus, per vesiculam tantum sublatis et plus minusve in in- dusiion mutatis, el thIkea quadam vesiculae propria. A. Indusium prominentem tantuim partem vesiculae vestit et conStiluitur: 1. Epithefio perdoneali (cf. Fig. IX. 1.); 2. Tela sic dicta cellulosa, quae magis stipata est ad vesicuiae This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 15 parteiu eniinentem et totam ovarii superficiem, aique a (bwa apud ana- toitico-s noullullos aili(lit, laxior inultisque iasis perreptatii adl vesiculae patrtem immersam. Cum inter albugifeam et par-elyut ovarii *ix litni- tes bene (derulitos obserlaverimi, et ilia in pluurinis inalu.talihus tellerrimum efficiat stratum, diversis tuintris in icotie signare nolui. Pr.ielerea IIu- nmero.s in icone IX. cuiI1 iis(lent in hIc expositione couggrucre jani olucet. Supern-acaneum igitur esse (duxi, figuram semper ciatare. B. 7wTheca (ItObus stratis coinpouiituri: 3. Strato e.rferi tenui se(1 tenace, semnipellucido, ex densa tela vellulosa conllato uti nemb)ranae teltues solenit. Vasit recipii, in se con- hillet et eornin lhies in str.8tuin etjul se(us iUiitit. 4. Stralo hiloeno, cr.xxiore, wnolliore, magis opaco, cujiis super- licke'es interna slhilLssime granuloso-villosa et hibrica est. Superhicies ex- lerna areti.ssime cuin stu'itto exterilto cohaeret. Lanminartuuin .separatio ildeI ill IllilloI'ibus (t'l icillillna e.st, ill majoribus i-ero ulii ill $sUUI itesiCIulis jai" anite tlgeaseentialil, HiniUiMs post brevemt mtaCertationein1 cultello ellici pot- est et Saepisime a me licta est, r el vesictilis plenis vel evacuatis. Abiatis eniiu p)ai'enchylattie et anid(uisio, stilatuni extel'niutin liecae iln con- Spectu p)051 ti vasis suis, quo catile inciso et ablato, stratum internum imanifeste (tiversae structurgae colori'sqiie miiinus albi appari'lit. Rltiouem intel' exteri'ium et iiiteritiii tii1o verbo in(licatti'us cactinlem e.se coetlted(l kiq(lue inter memubranas p)ituitosais et adljaceniten telam celislosaim , *qua;c ap)ud veteres Muinica nervea audit. ,Stratum internum revera menibranis pituitasis, qtiod ad lexturani attinet respondere, nulitis (lutito. Adsmal.:- scrObiculdI scrol)iculls munciparis similes. Va.sorim fines in Meatuf.lilm ilile- llniln peleltrantes it'lo in rainulos tenuissimos stib peniuCihllorumx lere irina .s4 utulllr.- Distinctin inter aambo .stratat- thletae ton Ii i's 11oinet* %idteur, p1i.ta ca vanulin corporis Iluti'i or'igineln nobiLs lenionstirlt. Thecace ta pIrs, (IUae l)osI)lac niilpitiur, jam aliquIod wtempts allIt pturt)aml8n le'iliiior v-ideftur, (iiiilOf p)tis-so-noml al solatlo iillvrtUlo vendere'( c^redol. A*- ppfit miiim in vbesividis scro1'lte luirgemutibuis saepluis maciula (iui.t'(atdaln perlucicda miarginibus tslbescentiiu,is irrgolaridnus (/uILLi exesix cirlmundaat This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions - . 16 el limbl)o laucimat0o, qulo apertura corporis Intei postbac dingitur, simnillimis. Maicula iila (Fig. xr. piCit) in quacunique vesicula diversam formnati ge- rens, oriri ind e videtur, ptood .sitrattu interntuni opacumn subito in hae re- gione tenue fiat. Non vero In oniuibus ovis aattris tale st;gmxa an'lt.i vertitur. Theca cum iIdIsIio 0post rupturah 'el nuciei ejeclionlem (al3yem cotn- stituunl. ('. Adti neleium pertillent: 3. Mlensbrano grantil os lhuoremn resiculale Graafianae inichidons. Cons.tat stralo leuil granulorunii. fit junioibus intulto crassior visa est ee opacior ; in adiultioribuis teniuior, membranoosa, mnembranae vitelli aium similior. Nuinquam vero tantae lenuitatis, J IIlucidihmti. et iaeIitatis illan v;di ac haec esso solet in viteliis inaturis avium. Si vesiculae G-raafianae dli.sissae conlental in ritrumn excaratum eflundlutd ur, nicro.scoplo semnper lituits strati disrupli frustula invenies (Fig. X.1). Ciarius idem videi)is, xi p)lacet vesiculam GIraafiainalII tirgilanm per diem vel b)no0 dies macera- tioni siuijicere. Meliusits tiur n ta hrco solvittir et jamn saepius, intacto *esi- (uliae inluslio, membrniuiam granulosami eollapianm fransparere idi. S8i re- sCulia ifa jua-weraIt")a s'ewlione transversa su111) ata fiinli'tur, inijus meubranaeac hina li i;inidi iia illtigra fimv petries. Sii etro ictin vel brevi sectione vesi- culas Iaedis, uemlbl)raltl senieper p)re*siott il)eacae dilaiceratur. Ildein fit cirn miulu a latuba recil)itur. UNi eniru ova juniora in tuba uterove vidi, sem- pr'r Iiiijilh ill('l).l.4nae fihustlula in his ofgaaais inveni. De superficie Imuju mt.enilrattiae laevi ifina (lemumilxl locutuirus sunt. 6. Humlor iesicula contentus. util omnia lltidla organica, exqremen- liti.; excepi,s ellit!1Il (t ii(letii pelitits, ex Ji(lo nfotivo (quo NEESII (,rund.wlhins retlfere vonamur) ct granui.s i nuati' coinponitur. Praer erc. globulli oleosi iuleuliliiutr jII)phs minuisve in otunibu.s imamunmalibits, quae itille il lilelI ex(amilnltavi, lie f'entinae deliciuntII hunmanae. Granula par-a .suitl irregula,,lri;a blie et iam(de in acermvulo.s collecta, granuli,. viltllinariis silimlnlil;i. .sed ration;e ad JlatniCI'n'II Pa.Iuca. Fledti.lum niVIdim iiscislunat pel- lucitiulilqulie ost. wk vesictli.s turgidis mantifeste fliie.scil, quod tantileni i gra- nulis finVIasse pltuiet. Lvuoaplhae lraeflerca e.st simuillimus sed lymphae This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 17 spissiori, nani major (qitantitas, qiiualem saepius ex puribilhs v.esicilis .Stlilk .'aIle turgidis collegi, placeI1taIin verain et imiagii.tin (twldtInii secernil. Ova- rio coclioni sub)jecto lhumiior vesicularui peinits ii(luirescit ini inassaill al- )Uillilli cocto qtuatti sirilimuam, (quie disrupta eo(leni fere iie(lo ac AbIuii- iniexi coctuni sulerficiemu striaitam exlinbet. In slpiritu lilli iltii(ue flurescit, sed potiuts in massain gpnanuloso-floccosam. klieidumn ;ativtnt ergo al.bu- rninosun Cs!. 7. Flti(lo ininatat i-el imposilus est dliscus ille l)rOigetsrll., ie (quo !oculi soimuist et cumluths ex denise stipalis granulis conliati. Ilate; gra- ulla allhedine tanitim abt htuinoris granulis de.scriipti seniper dillcrumi. Tltui minora tutu in.ajor.a lisa swit; (le (iillerenitia niagnittuIimiis 1111il satiuer oA cain causaiU atuleo. Discus p)rolig-erits liau(i ita In hiao lOllilonls t(Illiubus notatur. Mlaxiiitnn lialonein in erinaceo * idi. Nulliiiii animtal niii111ii|tii lifs parlibus carere 'iesiculariin Gtraalianartni (discis.io Sill) aquall et (liigiiens htuon-is perlustratio sul) lente %el lilicroscopio dlocet. Attainen (luoJ1io(1o et (luoliani loco sitae siiut, haltld ita fatile eruitwr. Nar111 in sola canle tianslucere solet oi-tultuni ctUII disco sulo. In l)iniS ovan-iis sUillis t lau)a- tUni epistoniio involutis (initer cenintin feie a nie examinata') chain iliStii- ctt per iliecain et inIdusitIin iiiajoruiI vesicutlaruII ap)paruerunt. In reliquis ovariis, hicet aria iionnulla tubl)ae anplexae erant , nuni(qtarn vidi niisi in- ci.siolle. Ctlin vero jacu. minimiia tlicae laesioiie lutnttior , prosiliat, (discnF hlac, Uletliio(lo 11o01 inl sitt obs.5cr-att%. CoquCIe(lo ii i(nite spiri"n litilloleln cogigailav i, sd(l (iscEiN p)rolgerIfis (lisal)atlirat ClUii o0ulo. ,Sp)ilitu (eIlli(tlie iiiii v.alde (dihioo lhunioris pal:mu pau.lululLil spissavi el dliscam ei ilculn- lblielti vidi, ut Fig. A. pinxi. Loctun tanien indicatre noni polui. In Cane 11u0bilmnil ini\eni, i sed seiiiper ad cactunen magis q(uam ad fun(dtuni ve- siculae olbservavi. Ini s1p)ra glictis o01r lis p)rciis ilunlnol)ilis erat et sutpre- 1tl11111 locuin in qunacuinqiue vesicula tlenUil, (1t1o (likil't strato aiiunii 1)1p0- lig,ero utl p utilurillitll Si)(liceilo silo. ('Ciin slnucs canes, qatts (lissecui, pI'I'gnaill(s', %esicuilav ego ililltlatulaC ('t claIUSae fIier,,in,t, (tillnl 1p)0110' in Iuialirioril)bus v esiutils alu.; ,llimin atl niltklilllll din C1s11 proligeritfn iioniltlqI(liialu imembirai /ttI,IIIo.s(w appre-S.Sull illn enelim, ind(lc oolligerein, discum -pro- Ii<f cram io ie.siculav iitlurIilatte Illagis, IllaIiSqllue % Oli ad peripjierialiil. 3 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 18 Cuntli caculneii at iiuteriora senaper etrstu est. Craterem nunqjuam dis- linxi. Cumuli Cornma est varia iariis in animalihus atique in eodeem ani mali manifeste rariat, forsan secund(luni maturitatemn; in cane depre.ssus est-; in iacca cylindricizin fere (in oi is iniunawris) (Fig. XI.) vel glo- hosiun vidi; in clianicuilo sub iigdenrdornmis, ina femina (depresso-hbemi- spliaericumn (Fig. XIII.), in porea. saepissinie sub diversissinis formis oh- scrravi. Quite alb eo foirasse pendeuta, (I1to(1 ovulum mutet situm suum et Itaud ininus quan dliscus pr'oligerts a centro ad periplieriam tendeat cutuhfun et li,scaunI proligeruw pedleteLntim penetrans. Ita suadent obser- ataiones in aliorum ovis aninmalitun fiactae (v. 4S. 6.) 8. Ovltumn tandem in cumido (t in ip.so iksco nonnunqaum tale obserratur ciuale de cane jani oescripsimnus. In reliqluis animalibus vero non tam opactun vitli; (qua ex causal, (iani in ovario sunt, sine microsco- iio in liis iix animadlvertuntur. In ownibus inassa globuilaris metlium te- tet obscurinin et peripiheria pellucida (ltin mnemibrana corticali circum(Latur. t I t conistaret, iutim niassa opaca CeUalilis revea'aft gIOl)U1US Sit SOliMUS (talem llillha b11e111l adspectullm), oiula canllauJ et v;acc.e ve1 formu;ito el die intlu- Ntria (lilacerala inicr-oscopio contemaLatus s;ium, in(lequtte giobulumn ntoni esse %oliuniaaia collegi secl griammila.l ejits perilaiheriati crassanl circa caiuni lmtinimum (olistitllere (Fig. 11 o.) Res salltem ita est iisa eic mainen fi.cilis est dijudlicaitia.- Naglnitudo (Itniiiqlle oi nilomt iii riat. Satis miag-na suit oi aii.l in porcis, vaccis, oribus ; Illinora in ('IInicillis; djUil)[is minora ad(litim ill callibus, miilnlilma, ratiolle ad oviliul et boltinh corpuvs, in febnina fita- IltaIIIa; ('0 alliaora elrgo il unii erstim *q11) altior corporis evolutio. In eni- flaaeo tan'liell oitiIt el dis all ' proligertias maaaxiiaa %.isa stint, ctim iesictilas ret.spiijs (raiaiauas e' corporis an oleua paarviki'll. 1)Maniqaae afieram me bina (l ul;a sealnel ill c;alls iesacucln distinclictsim e idiss'e et ;ali.a vice i)ina o -iala ill rrofIitsIt'micalaJ,l Iidis.sm m11e pllumrne, aanadW aminerums oiortun a coirploramn hlilat-rninaii iiiatro nonaumqauaitlla ditr.'iesum fiarile x'pIict.aII e*st. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 19 f. S. Jlistoriae evolutionis mammalUum brevis conspectus. Ut, quae *ia retrograda inuestigavimus, clariora fiatit, mammalitum evolutionem a primo ovuli vestigi( ad1 id usque tempus breniter persequa- mur, quo jam manifestior fit. Quid prius adsit, utrum mamrnalium ovulum an vesicula Graiafana, num unquarn oculis percipi possit lumanis, nescio. Id vero certo certiuts liabeo, in juioribus vesiculis ovualtint cum disco proliger jam adesse nec ad vesiculam cui pertinet ita parrum. In miniTis quuidem non vidi, sed disquisitio haec tantis prenitur difficultatibus, ut et in majoribus interdum fiustra quaesiverim. Observationibus deficientibus, rtum hiypotlbesin sub- stituere licet, ovula priora esse crediderim. Detnonsurabo eni'ni mamma- lium ovula vesiculis PURKIuui reliquorum anirnaliumn conmparandas esse, quas in animalibus nonnullis molluscis, acephialis v. c. et lumbricis, ovO-o rum evolutionem anteeedere clare mne vi(i.sse pubo. Vesiculae GraAlianae humor prinuilu,i albumen insxpissatumi, aequal (dum solum ovulqm granulosum est. Tum differenlia polaris in hirnmore mags magisque evolvitur, fluidum nativum dilutius ftt et granula contra pluma in eo evoiluntur. Meinbrana, quam granulosani dixi, principio stratum salis crassum et continuum est, tunm granula in ea magis excolunitir, quiae externa super- fide tenuissiino tegmine albumitoso legi nvidentur, nunquuan (iiiitlem ita separato ac in ovis aiuun, tameu mnemnbranae vitelli (avini) atuintulo. Di- sus proligerus magis condensatur et ovuluin p)edletentim abl eo sejulgilut lnemtbrana corlicali, quam utique lpro secretiole (ex ou ili globldo habeo. LTi enim quodleiunqtue granuluim leriplle ianm halbet p)('IIuIidam1 (iii granulis uuuembran;ae granuulosue bwie percepl)til1ulei tor finlas^se (cuiII 1hauloue ab alieto- 'ibuus cirna ,olnutos sanUgUiinis ol)servato conparawnlani), it.i et qIiaecqute granulorium congenues pelpherial comiunutui se circuIlllWas. lIn oui-lo cavitlas centralis oritur, g'antulis ad periplhlraiauu lell t ellfeiluas. Olululis eniut ('10oll1- lio in eo nititiur, quodi a ceintro ad1 p)eRi'pl(1au1ii temlatl ftiy-lia lo. Eliauis discum proligerunm et onruluulu a(11 periplieriaui pr'ogrndiellute. colultione teli 3 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 20 oli.servawiones in mamumalibus si uionditm sstricde ptrobiant, saa;adet tanieni coinparatio cunm ovis relialuortma animanliunt. In vesictlis maturs's d(leU(que sir.almn internini theeae cra6sius fit, sfigmtr vero teiuiuus demum evadit. De corporis h-lei gentesi satis dissietiuitt obsern.atores. Me ju(dice, iiiiinate corpus n0oi- 1111 est , sed( stratum tittrintiriu tliecae nagis evolutum. Qaaod sequelntibtu.s1 olbservat ionlIibus demon.strari rnposse plato. 1. Circa corporis Itatei lpartemu iaun)ersak aunuama niodlo iniroltacriani dIi.selIle're ponili, q1u1od( theme strato exteraao resjp)Oadet. Ex ca(flem enin ela constiitlitur aitiiuc pallutIllim distensa , ati facile in maagnis vtcIca.II'IIru ; oiitlun, porcaruia corporibaus Iuteis probatuai. Nec reliquae cirea corporis mlicel vestinaenta dis(lui;sitioites dlissaaadent. 2. Aperitara orporis lutei ioiaidiaiu coitieicti i(leiii (locet; cintgitar (511iik) peri;isIoilio lac(iliaIlo. Hs laciiias miiiiii(aat esse inbis.ti prolotigatio- Itle, sd ipsius coaporis luitei, (distil(tisi'it iEli pl)lliJ) po0t 'liptalrila.l ill ovariiis caiinins, (aeimidaldiais et lpOrcilitis. Ii(/itd'i, papeflla it a llinnl major ('si c ilgilquel( petrist;omlinin (lF' ,s. Xlr. . Peli.istoniitinil v-ero ealndeilll habejlt ormanain ac stigna stupra descripu1ttit Itec quiid(paaatn alitid est. 3. 'Expil.so vesiculae rai(aiallae niOii' 1lilili 1 mil(lilauo.si aliqlaid re(- lltlanets ex (Iquo vero aina(aiaui corporis Iluli mtassall aullger'i ilade coclalldo, iaaioId 1) siaperlicies Iaijia.sce inaternat spe (Iedeinhte circtinscriplta sit in ailalaclunqae prow iherl-1a hia ; 2) saepissinite ha suihaas corpora lutea per totam ?"'M iditatelai C411;1 ei 1111ti(Io spisso atlbuaitiaoso imI)Ieta i:-eaiaaatur , duamta alia salinat s(lida. W I lid Je iile peIideriC ileidia, qaio(i in aiiis (orporis Itlei exclre(Scentiae (prot ll)benltite) iiit't'na.C <a tt eit('vila COIam)compeat et IIaifluaII prop('j'l0alt anateqtiamaa la;ciitiac peristomii concrei raint, in ahliis lacilliae con- crescaaat ante corporis solifditlteain lutei. Niiiatliatalll Calilln apertuara clausa litaialaor ta Corpus hlitewn italaasus tutaltiar. fii caanil)us ct tulflltlatibtis (crpora lautea, si claiasa erant, cav-a m1e iiatreitisse atoil llellui: iU his apertara primtitaim inajor est taana iaa saaildbus. 4. Coptis liatetiii satiaiit p)ost oiaaili jeiliollem adest. In ea canle, aIallae o ('x talbis Sappeditaverill't Cortipushe lill illvelli ('alUWIIt, Iat ;ataalu,1'ill Iltol Ialde crassaaaaa, isaajerficmi extsta rugatalaeta l (quait suIperli- dieati vorpora raaalitaaillaillata hia servare solenat ,l atande iaaaa Ella atpar;-. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions I ~ to r io culn} glandulac; acinis), ;1inlerna ountil s> enlIiiiaenhiis , quas3. ('uniX rugti.s c' iliis comrpolierein cramsi.s-simim, obsita. Emii tialike rihehanit * asik alliplis, jnl nuflis ocuilis sinie inijectione jpparentibus. I)oleu, mue aiis ime-smigalt- tionil)Ulls detenliiutm lhaec corpora ltiea ion1 delinieaieses. thilud pauto provectius Fig AH'. exhibui lectoriilUs. t. Se jni ainte nutclei ejectioneim thecae stratum utruiiea S) Fed1 j;sl.atete j''iIII 1(;1 l.li ileill'ltilI lllt.a- niortlphosill in corpus luteuni subire persuasui inihi hafio. bli ciinicuilo tiqtod1ani, cujus ova in. utero jIni jacebant, nescio (jUio casu, una i esicula vaide turgemlLs aniuc clausa erat. Apertan eam .nondumt fidsse ovuli prae- sentia (Iemotistravil. Corpus luleUmi Celle tamI18en udrIuit qaillaill emq lane et sine excrescentiis internis. Idemn in vesiculis turgidis porcarunm me (t oh- servasse puto, in quibus stratum internum tliecae incrassatum et paulniumt ex licteo rubens inivenii. Corpusl luteum in suibus enhnli niuq(ailmlllll cre In.- teniun est. Antie stnigmatis aperturamn lutescit qii(lem, seid post nuclei eje- chionem ruuI)rInm lit. Euidem colorem in canibus habet; in vacca lmlce- aturantiacum est; in.hoinine in primordio flayturi. Qtuenunam colorem post- ham; in feminii lhimania habeat, non satis expertus sum in ovariis receuti- bIu.s Persuansum ergo hiaheo, jam turgenite vesicil.a Graialiaua stratumai liwea iiuternum incrassari et, disrupto indusio, a strato externno et an- bioneic iela cellulosa nuuic se coutrahentibus crispari, unfle rUg,.ac jaum na- scuntutur interia e, mjuiae tanmen sublito majores exeresceultias propellunt vii- Iis inaNilnUs similes, el postremo inter se 'oufltlulnt. E x quiolib)et arteria- 1uiI liJe in straltum interniuIn penetrante inullc reliCtiluml11 )parvinu excre- scentiae Cuilque nascitur. 6. Halad nminu.s in vesim&liS porcris Iuorb)ose juuituo ihmmore (non- mliullllnilll tad oii gallibacei ininoris ambitnum) (listetisis thect.e strattum in- leniuni corporis itei inidlolemU induil. Crassitiem senmlieae ;. sseeutunn i id: nu ll ortlasse corpora ica if y(hrolpica inec vesiculae morhoIosae ? 7. Quihus dimsqisitionillis 'it fiuelmu ip onmI aframlliran tamdem ici ne in 1utiella lilkidinosat tisncae straltum iniernuilln vicsinlae adhucli' (alaL ja.11 minlllillo llalvllum viise. In alia pumuellka (ilae morti -se de(derlat, procul dubio oh incaltonam graivlitaila corplm liuteumum invenlli aplmrturn. ('ums cavitlaus, niutiomm atd resiclat6d Vt...i;!, iajor oral qnamn In nile e.por This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Utaeo alteritis animalis mini obvio, et prow iberamtiae iinternae muitores. U,ndle, qqaeso , ha;ie (Iliflereiitia, nisi ex co p)ewlet, (111o(1 1 esieilca (rait- faita huiam ;a (l'i).Niore It-la celltllo-sa Cil'lill' ata mutiuXlls eontr1;ahatillr pia)% evaciationeifl? Ovmi hi )1 i; oc Castu rI'aI'issilml se oflereitiii 11011 I'mei, qiiiod( qitidlemn tiliic teinpois p)r'oll dolor ! 0>n1|X1 tiilnilmilu lmamum nilondtlii coguio er1aml. Ad oitim redeamums. Ex ovario ejecitim a tilhae aperitira abdollli- nali refCipitur. Quiodi ut celitis et melfitis fiat, luiae apertura )oiar1)) IiltiU sill) inifundihuli fbriumk extendliltir, sed( et alia adlstiiii admilliuiclla. ItI anli- mIail)dius n1onniullis, in quiilms ala Iespertilimioii aiilaltomco1;11ii * ix C\ ll alatt sedl potius pIaila est ; inlfulnlilnli osililiil perisfolilio laciialo (illiilu' 'ci sic dituis iHIIl)'iiS; itat in lioiniiCe, siI))ia. Iiu alis ala espmertilioiis aitte- rioia versuis in l)tthlam extensa est, tio fit , tit ostiil wlbae 0. o.lrio Sit p)ropiuts. In lhiis ostinin jain inagis aperttmn fimihriis caret i-eicis. Exempla lnabemnus ili rtImiiiaitibtls. Stinit poI'Io alia aitinialia, in (luil)tus Willa di- ct.a sit profumlior et posteriora versus ad aperturam qualdailaldaI cointracI. Ad liaec pertinentl su1s et (lphtlinus. Tutbae iinftmudlibuuliti a(1 b)dlae apt-r- tur'.anh all)perili lln is, ine jitlice, finbriis, sed rugis obsilumn el oslio 111;a- g11() ill. bl)lam rau ;l.sil. Touporoe oe.v;tii I-e'i'|^ei bu1lla dle.scripla O;liti-iii tit Illitr'aI 01)(IlCii, quod ill scrofis saepius, in Jphlocaena seliel vidii. Aper- tiuti llIm aiuIpla es t, u1t btiUia ab oi-rtl'io sinie laesioile disiralli p1o.Sil. 11. iIIsee(liorim Inldia. jalm1 in sa('t1u mintatilltr, 01 Jtiitnf liii tIli(ca * wilalalius seliper 11ii'111(lllCs, apertilra Coara:Ila; (ltilit'll .i 1 Sed Satis c6spicila. Ill fi(- eis jali ila co'IInIira iltit', tit adttims plililO ilililti j)ritprae ilinli 1po).1it; in CamIIO aila ailagaLsI, in plhocaI firameni parium adest. 11n imisfelas ii)(iiiir'eiifli inmei( (leest oceatsio. (Cumn tivilo s5i)mper membranae granmdowte finilstila ill 1111 als li.1trs- *mliii: nanll ill ittelo hnatlnl nints quiam in Ituhis muit ( ' is priluiiliv;s Urui- s.inla dicla semper adlslinnt. Praeterea in liis organis iml ui" i tirr l'eXicillae (elosm(-, p-a1n11ila p)olym))rpl)a aitiullnlUis et lriistula telftl( ('clhiloslacp I 'ul- Il11111 1l fiolicein abscisil. Quits OnIlle)iX re' obseni 6itor odtUIII!; s 1 (ml) lltl- tIllmil i(deril, ova llilor'a ClliiS itOh tio nhtnlfdel. Qiibiiiodo l r'10 Il!4l(Lii- lex,pro tl I. haialt posillt, it liii PlREVOST CI D)u.MAN AS t1tlNaiCMittr' This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 23 tl4en 11011 inielligo. Hydalide.s eniirn flcet catfenas Ill x;in lis villerin l, liuli- 1toan#i1 tamlien ill I itharnit ant uteei car iait'm oll 1di. ('Coltpiwcnla a lieia, l11l'lpalnill pitlli, f7;g. Ii ll( . pIillt ; pl) tllij i d, ra clipliollnm m1pervipalwaiam (II.N.Y (1ll('o. hel' p)('r oljiductlXl" bCi6'ns OiUllt l)l;lilXll1;,16ll11t 1111l.h11l f('r'e suh|- il 11 ;l,lv(la|llorplwill Ili-Si (|11iod llSllcuill *IIIbumtillOso - p+11,;l -lIm)Nli imbibal;l, hi- *1|e p.111ll1lu1ul ('t'(re-'at mW i1al fillidfl(lt llt; graml)tl.1 l7ol)[11i infl-1 i per ipheriallbi"I niag t0is lla 1i.;('tle colln.;itiflilt lIuinoieini icidlwleld in. Crama cai m (1Iliiiiiioreto edr/?aIIm,l Si;NtlXli, ( 11juls cuileilla giol)(1tilll olu1lzgf1s ex Ilal -1X1i.s .secreIe. I-ix perciilnr , ni)Wlrlmbraia. (orlicrfli jaiiti liene excuillia. Ill nieirtlt ira11Xl;w.IfI OlUnl Cifills 411CCIT'S'it mllaijOr(m ll in quaI;ni-. taleml iiUl)iws1 el itle1 cal IIIIIu-e t pelitiCi(liduil fit. Granllla adl p( ripderialh li;l.is iI1agisql1e recedlIlnt et ex s.'uperticie sua marleriaml exCeni'iiiiiit, ex qlua ciaititlal t(')eimSissima concesc^;it, cliillx supe)rlkiei internlae gra*nlalz adhav;renlt. O'llivulalll#b 11.m. Inel 'librlla lilefli etb;6f et graloinda, (IC fIpliblus ag>imuis; g,ralim- Ii, I il('IliliP av11i10 1 Ip1e011(nCllt. Villor 1101i vcstigia i;1 mcmbr'auwa cor/iali appallilif1 fl1ll ill liler-o oviu lihere niovetur. Vis formalu ivira a centro a1d p(ripheld'i'l1lt1 agells , ctini granula pri:uit,us ad periphlriam egelit , umn in; (Il1oculllIlu grllill( massaS%in en(iorem1 adt peril)pherliaiml cogit, (p1i1 lilIolldltue 971rMI;umu in orbein verti(iit, graniula minora circa cenitruin pelIucidutmn Si- talnamophrlol1ouk ovi ergo ve.siczdac Gtraaianlanne melamorl)hosi onninio rel.i1ponidet. Si(cut in liac grantila, plurima stratum peripher'iaumn couisi tiiiilit, (ll S Sl. purjocut'(iuull :'vins memln'anula secet'ni incipit, ita (t in fornuanal oembrulatia lit vifllillnali. Porro, in vesiCula IirGaaiiatua stratum proligerum c1uull (.11tl(o alte.st, ('li rcs1)ondet bllastodermatis Iuistoria. Pat's gr;intilo- '111111' e11ini ill 010o suI) mlmbrana, itelliiuali tuinuiliini con0flsilt , p)dlteiIifilu ill dlisetiuunhu 11n11allum. NIllmbrana corlicalis ftheac vic1es geril. O 1i111 ante pra es l1reu(ntiam lele crexcert nmiihi vi oum esi . Pe- ins codei 111 )l11o ('1 (ilur, (1110 in avibilsl1, nvc siltlis il ai ilitlSI smai .dilleri. Pr'iniiib LspillaIe 1loiSalis IAS1i"ililn .tppl'tlC i idelu. Es 1101 Ia- Mill.-e lll)l-sall5-s (/clicet' pri;tiluhIem PANNDEu1) el pailI() otlloantiailc Ilt- clies riluga 111 o libilsor il, pIll)01 ; trllitllib)l i v(clulrlmIns m vollitio (.riel- pe.cliiilga) il co nilifurl {luto(i (es wzro cellfralli (columlaeverfe(b,ral,,,l. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions -s~~42 vestigio) binae Iamniiuae 1surMum ten(lant ai1 caaitatem pro medIulIIa mpintali et: Cerebrto (con.siilueIndaIIJ, et biniae de(orsum ad cavitates4 pro organis ph.s- sticis i asontinquto truniwc formanflas. QuaIl evoi.o1uiineint fershtulus su81) ill balralcliIS, op)hidiiS ('1. sanrim is. lialati millus qlu-il ill aijuS. In p)isci- bus pritnam qt11id'tU 11011 Vi(li PVOli0;Olueiki, sed quauiunt ex pisciculihs pellus- ciuli-s fIrim linearumit , in coneharumu branchiis seniel obviis et b)reliier ex- anui)i I bsl'e x ma1jorib)u1s octo ad(I duodeuit lfitcas explenlib us, in spirliu Tilli 'Ser'atis colligere p0Illai, eandImIIE esse Wc1nsea, (lC (plo clarissimuts *RATIME exsjpeclaiissiniio sIO8110 (Ie piHClln etoltitoie Opjnre ce1 CeilOre.s 1108 fi- clef. V erunIII.ad 4-iliiieilsl veIl(lrfe Sbrzis 'arltia (11WOZI allino,' (-OI'WIU SOlliltiF- neiti it arliculatls li *leili ad W tt'rgium procedere jitlil a11ne RATHIKII `Xo)0- sii.IOnes (I4.ss 182.5 pag. 1098) ciii)1 Bt't DAV1I CXIlLs 811111 it jI11an anno 1824 p)ubi)lici. pr1'aele'(cion1i1u (kloci uIi , U tia(liorltlim sclietfulIc le*siabutitur. RtATIIKti hal. fl(e a-- -I 11tRDACII IflOllitiSi vere('1 t iliileti aesti.ie ;e alli 1 82' lii(tIir c'OIxIIiXit, alucIt lIImuto t (ajnl8(IC1U UIIIli pmublice (am dlo- cuiII, p riop6is salle obsealr iuioiilmhui xtiliissiis edoctus i ) I)Duum tm111I))'> 0o eioi ;t(r., IlasiItIoidal 11.-11(1 (I1II)INC eXiteI8lsin et ImPlia.- 1U111 Clili) hhemln'dnue C011resch('i1 IIIi (1110 iIo tinC I'US SamUCs infe1stiIllais ('conshfiiuiilr, .111 ill mll ibm.i ,e1)1I1lr)e corlicalic s vis i mulillo mllagis8 p)ropul- fill-lit et 01111)1 ahlutfero,' (.; lli Illi(iqite excrc'seUli, arcliimel ci'ingilttr. S1Iirala)iliae lt'ItIrililae, qiti1his 01 ili1)al111t111 Jaill)) ailie par111illm p)1'018118s ili-srili- lnir; ill ;Wd11U,14,4 811a ii i ci klhuituuiiql)Ii tiaihaie cx ut'1oa nhl)UIJIUilJIIn ('1 1111Wtr(iO 1illr'um1) ped('deteIIim)) 01o tIj)uppedilaltillr, qno iiit II a mus5i inlue- .stil.lx il lailxl.l I)4lxfe(*al(;1ll perela xIell)l.| r o grm. Wdilieamll. S(ed lUJIev sttilhiii,tiif tI1( 11i11m1iUi)s1 ne repeiain qutae ice -coneorflia tIt 4filli''('lliia ill Imallmlliuill m"ilU) WIIIEj lmoluliolne jani1j'lU dociui. ) Q9aiito. naanr puAfalii.. *aflriA.tiw intiar ism1. pi% Nit pwst lei m tomachumt, quem eatn i.auila1aa,1a e al.a am pratauatjaau j nr aa tui, tmul gidmmio a t aaaa' iscrtaa'aa ilalta' aaliataaiia wtrtdI,ris V.1rauia et *a'rtahrata praaaaaaalgareiaa, .i latn dimisaititinib,aas hrbrat iJhos tam'ut1iat'aastal ad, laate diwri- tilets dijudicanadulot *afficieaatiblus frelu., peraveritaa, sue laaic amuicai ou,ervationiaiam, isblitu- wIUug) t-'.'.. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 25 ~s. (I. (C,Ivllpti"Ptio oviiii mflUnlin lit(l( l (11111 oGis' I''liqiora in a n i )nl o I i t 1/11. Rlela,t. Mi cum ii.s COmparanl'l-nS , (111,11C (IN t! llllltl OVis Il1CU.S(gall nota crant ; o-a mnamimnaliumii, ad giensin jluo(t altilet, 11 diffilIerre talltill se(I oii11ii11o p)'culia'riaR e.sse( v-idenitrll. A1'lens 1lmman;a I% *ro| t11|llo iIIOdo .C- (Iiliescit in sola (liileIIeiitia iiter ie.s nalitales e'jilkdel dintlalis et relatio- ills CO-nOgs(ceId(a. Jam111U(IU (lOCllit lIiOr)pliologimie StIl(liilli, OfhiiCein CUjU.- *iis organi (nie oniiiiin .dicanius organormni ) dillevrentiam inter 1iiuiites mtlajOrLS .siniltlu(dilnis teneri. QuidI ? Ova Ilianlillialiuin Ic doc tlillalte a CASP. FitID. IV OL FF tanta jam claritate (demiIonstiralte contradicereilt! Hisce cogiltationiibus coinmotus compltii11itii ii anintalinin o1 ii accIralitiUs exanminare coiistitui. Exercitationibus cirCa liaic rein i(acem pratelulit ex- ceelleitissiinia dissertatio, qua JOANNES Ev. PUIIKINJE ieneraInli BIu MNEN- B ACIH semisaecularia gratidatus est. Libellus, plai quideIIm amII)ius, Sell gr1 k1\ ;.ssim;Ii argiwiueuiti , jiiblice , quanttun scio , nIon iedaiur isI; , sedl imiutuo acadIemniartliI comumercio literario duntaxat distril)lIlus eSt, (qliO eeiiiiti, LIhatd(I ant1e autumnuin anni1i 1826 cumi C cognoverim. TtuItiiu liabet sequel- teiii: Jotn. f-ied. Blumoiu bachio etc. swlnmorain in m edicina hwnoraii .olCiisecularia ,gratiladir or(do edwicorain 1'atislaviansilJl iiile)pi'epe Joanne Ev. Pukin P 1'. 1'. 0. Stibjeclae .snt .syibolue adl ovi aVhiaii histlo)am ai0c imwiba/t nemi ; caOI datubuts lilhograp#hi. J'l8alidlatvia, lypfis lniversiOts (anno 1 825 mense Sept. edit.). Quite oialatissinius PUR.KINJE t bKI Navollit, soil haec.: III avmiull 01is, lunli nl 0a1 ro jae(nlt , sub elmlbhrai)a 1ilelli Sirtillil tlenilissimllUIn fgrillilo- itUi)I vilelliolla adist- , -1.ti 1110 10(o 0 c aIglmist slipal.1t zoniilain (quaxllu (Iiscai pro0;eb"'o'lJ) noll()iill;%lli)tl> c'ollslittililill. 7ioII;av superfici(:'s intlerna;e( c'itlkililltil Imaillulll olOl)ml1J11 ('01Und((1il grallililoiiii adl interior;)I 'ergenitell exiil bel. In c(lhlille t i ll tili pIoIiI' p(I(icIil S, (Iill ai killlfI(Jllf( dlisci piagmill (cOnspic)i poteie I, l iii, I ( Si(1l iis inwt-err)iltivi outil lvl', ('ll1jl" fli;talltial rl;iIltt lilt'll'1)ll'{'ll \1lE'. 1lil( l}l'ill, lil lll'lilIl cica;tl-iculaf; , 8'lilli'lUIUli p)'r- 1tlllalei iflblldere '6C11. (.siculla O mCl;t lillilli.sNillil;, (iiilst( .suslan)tNaelXl< gra;tllillo-.S( 4 12 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 26 immersa, duias tantum facies, alterin versus menibranam vitelli, alteramn per colliculi caclunen cratere ilbi parvulo circumdatan, liberas 1)raesenltatt ita tarmen, ut ibi aliquantulum membrrainae adlhaereat, liurc vero s1rittrni sii.- plex granuiloruin initer se cohaereptinlini per eanm contimnatur. Vesicula hlnoioein dillluum conitifet Iiinpi(lissirnuin. In cicatriciua oiornIi piartorumI et in uteio vel in ovidiuctu latentiniill niuinquiani inmvenitur, in vitellis auten),. (luin i -ovario sunt, ne minirinis quiilein exceptlis, semper adesse videtur, qiuaIre Cl. PURKINJE vesicildarni (lietain o0i l'(ilordia coiistituere suspicltur. Quihus tIuneit liceat atidere, iie (quo(qIIe in ovis iiinimiiis, oh granu- lorum tdetcttiun pelluci(dis, vesictillllm (Itumd(Iai vidisse, et quien, ni tI- lor, ad cenii-tium magis po0silaimi quam posdi 'ac si1ta est. In ovis a IT mn. aifl Ilinius liieae diiamletrUIm excretis, Ob)scuIrioribus et afbI)escetib)us, vesi- culaI jamill sine dissectione 11011o V)dreI. \i11us (itlIe(eil siub). mllicroscopiao orbem in oA) salis inau1mm, (Ilti tameui lioni a vesicula sed a vitelli Ileni- 1)i ilmII p)euIdIe{t per thecam transp),arcutte. Vitelli membraa hloc empel)oe crassissima et graItIlosa est ita, Ut opItime mereatur iiomet mnembranae gr-aiwl10osa'e, qttam PURaK&NJE q.oq(ule ita. descriil. Atummat vero grnt-ul.a sup)erfick!Xi iiilei-iiae meCmIbrauac| adha11erer; se}(i imiaml. stiIi, 11|e 'ti(fiee, et umenibriman -potiuS ex iis qlIo(aIImmOdo coiistitUituir; abstergi cilint 1101o p)ossumt. Posthlac memb,'ana gmrailosa in sir8ttuil exteriniiwU 1aeve, contii- 1111t1111 - mehl)raitaml *iteli puitla -- (t Striatuml graliulosulml, litelli peri- pheriali eIciviells, Stjunglti milhi v isa est. Quae qutalitiumque iii0(o sese 5ha- beantl, id tlqimidle ceriul halwo, l'icla e illa n iv telliporis n1on1 in strato graIlluO.S( jacer'e, set( stil co lociiiii liabere. eiileiiqlue alb inlteriori latelre IUpressioiell (lare ut, Ill O} iii o l a inaiiIIliuii. Qtiae praeterea excellenlissinma (locelitUir in opere (licto, liuc jiou JFf('sivtiI Purkinzji (hoc" lnomlen einizn juisto titulo geret ia, licet 11m-sall janii a ;almhio observatore i isa sit , CliIInt auctor io.sier eamI tai acduratis Cte; tl,iiiliiis iii'. o'tigilit t , lit IlitliW (ICIIIIIIiI ti01a 'I lhistoria etjis hii o-o ;allic;(eo 1'( rca.sliollha iideatm'iil) il mliis oimis (ilma ei.ti, aiqil, lvst Iii iis(ld1l i'elituliiiii tplis et iii NtiiiiIilfllIS ill Oeiiliil)lr Jill ('ll. h{isv illes.qti!atliOimil)iIs^ iiiihimmil.i temniris et1 OjR)'rael ilditali, a '1i;*'er This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 27 ilonfluml absolutas esse optiie .scio., neque absolvi posse nisi p)luri'11tlX zannorum Iitl)ore cre(lo. Ouillia , qftuae circa (luo(liuni(jie qvorImui gemis vidi, dll;i.avi ci re- ,iidi, liic penitus rIeferrel' tlawo-SiIIIi esset. Saepe enjini est (dibeit;le dlijtidi- catu, qtiodnamii nomen pars aliqua merealur. Ea igitiur taiitIuil exponam, (tilae iuilli *sunlilmil ol)bservationuIl conficere iidenuiril, et quide in on ovo- ruimii gene ra secuturus, sed partes constitutivas. Ov a manimnaliunm nuoi'C pelituls iaegliganius. III o6mnibus igitur ovis a imie exalnialati.s vesiiefta Purkhinji adest ainte ev oliltionem n absolutamii. In minoribus jamII appareti timo primum oni Ve.stig,ium4 . esse videtur, circa fuiofd %iltellus colligitur. Niollusca chica lanc origiiem me ifecerunt ceitioremn; in mollusc-is enim iesiculas p)ellu- cida.s minimnas ante ova vi(i , fum v-esiculas strato vitcili obtectas et po- strenao ov-a magis niagisque ecolula. Id(lm, ni fiallor, v.alet de Linbrico 11ec ion (le Hirdiaciile. In aLiiis ovis evolutiis ita (leIliiiej observari nion potest, (Itioniani quilem thecis conl(luntur. V'esicula cwnu(lo innata est, ralione ad. vesictilamn ad(mioduni variamnti. In aliis enim iinaximus, uti in iuolihiscis, in aliis minor, uihi -esicuIla Ina- gis exculta est, uti in sawriis et ophldiis. CG wimths praeterea in anii- ina.il)bu. iiferiorum classitimn nioni ita iuianifeste graniilosus est (piam in sem- periorum: inliiiolliscis all)Uinlli inspissatO fer'e par est. In insectis cumal- ltim lbucts(qtue dliscernere 10oii po0tli ; i(lel fle p)iscibu)Is conaileor; in his enimii i-c.sicula satli.s magnia a globulis oleosi.s stratiuin (Imiodd(lam conlicieu- tibus cito ohvelatur. Quod stiratumi nim (lisndiscu reIlerat cIlllmuilum(qule nescia. Ili batrachiis, quibius utique vesicula e.st minaxinla, distile appa- ret Circa ean m.massa plectiliaris, (qiuami plro cilnlulf) lhao. N'ec v-esicuila praeter muagaitudineni ejIlusde imtholis est. In It s junioribus oflit'lliIi anhlilalilluli pellucidi;a est, fluido14) 11111Wii India nun imimi- tis.sinla graul a 1v PIlte ie1impl'tea. In 111011115wis , a)IlIme(liI)il)S, im1c(f1lsl5 crustaneig (A.staco lu':.) ,latcll-a;iis i almihus ill hoc Aatlu remuallere *' (hetlm qur ui is ill mionlltlls .d(a mlalturitdt(l1l1 Jamil) gr,llull'MIMl copia aglbeatnr. Il opfli(hiis et xaUIriis CeIo grallllid Ililiflu idiin(Jsi mlajorat ('1 h i nrwllaiora piI)llIrltsB ttit luiescuugti 4' ad malilirlaileilli tallfl(elnl sateilil) intcl'1111111 celo- 4 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Stiltiont, resiculhe jumhranae adIjacenlem; in ovis mtuiris Specus' intel'riu1 gramdilmu a- tembrnula esic-ae externa pedetentimu recedit et Collahituir, v uesicula aquae suboiersa est; de (qo conf. Figuras AP'I'I et AX III., XXI. et XXII. III 011111i)Us animalibus , iii fallor, vesicula a meldio ad1 peripIleriauI r-ecedlit , jtiiOe iLeS ill J)dtIafrchiiS 0j)til OJme obser1atur. In raiis eiiim uWf1- ibUSsi .daillainii.d compliribus vesicniana in oivis iiiinalituis a inemibrana itelti satis (listanitein iinveni. Idietui(uite dic avi us jam docui, ubi vero miulto citius in superhicie apparet. I)itilius in Jacertis renlialet, ita lit in oais jali duduii lutaeis p)licilCum pellucidmu (vesicl;a scilicet)- non aniwmad verrtatur. Talia ova stub a(qa tiwiln cate secaitur, tlisinilcte iivellitur stratum vitellinarium, ctii vesicula PurAisji janil iuttrioii lateri facit im- pressiollem (Fig. XIX.). Postea sil)b membrana vitelli jacet, sirato gt'a- Iuloso peuibrato, (It0io( luce clarlis v-idi in raiarmiu avis , ub)i inwo Vesi- V'ul11a IIIat IilemIrallamI iitelli in collicultul elevat. ilaudi u6ttus in Anio- 4lo01111 icsiculam cuiin cui1iud1lo e iiello pjroluiberaro ividi. III oRi l's parti jllntltSIU}lslIilU2 -'i'Il (p ti.'PIlI ovl' In 0 is1~ituijam edliis iuuiiq(uaini invienii vesiculai i. (Pisciinov parla (cxalimiwrcli buicusquei dattum non est). Ja.1ti in OVi(ductu 11011 invelli- tlur. -Niilollihuus (onll PUItKINJE noi 1iuci(, (pili Oiiducluts pressione vesi- (i0llall (di-SI'ni1pi crCdlil. Semiel enIUnl fii ov.o gallj'inaeo mnaturO, il ovario ttiildemi retento s(1 ad e jevliolleill parl'ktO, vesicUlah no10 iiveili. Quami iiinicaim ol)bs(lrvaiollell) iiuli 1o01 Iatzcio, 01i Ia.Xe,illimiuni sit in errOfl ell Ibi. iAlsjowi.s nuildi videftur iiioillent, (jUiod in tenieris serpentum omidlucti- 1)u1s ova 11011 ula11 1( jicIiii caero VI& sinit, et qtiOl vesiculamii Io1'otuIb)e- raiteiin jall,i ill oIS rvio milital retcnlis ol)serlvaerilll. I) iiiqul?C ov1a illn 01aii.^;s uiisectorlinil mllatura vesicula careut, i'mmatura vero in ova- i'io'IIIII Ij)icibI')ll llidulalia ei('ieiii Inpraedita stinit. Nuinli ilor'an fecuwdiiia- iOle 1 Vesicuila d1;issolvitur? 191 (?Iiditeqie nioi credo; ill bzlilculiijis t'lluii ova in oviduciii i ca vesikula cmaent lotige atille lcu1in{latiotelOli; in isllseclis perflictis leutlndafio in aflteiro file apparallts gellialis hieni viidetull, ova atilelii jal oIUni, suprelilis (i1 vix appar'enitil)iIs tanumat exiepteli.s, 'Ves;icutla (ar('Iil11. liio ill iymulphluis 1 a iiajOi'a (m1 a aor c niatimttautielil inagis p)rve(clat, r't'te ve1ra0 noiiduii Ii'u(1ai1und carent csivulh . quiae taniell illn ; mio'ibrblis This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions adest at(jlue superioli'ius. fit 01 is dlenique, quae gallinae s'ie gallo viven- tes elixale swit, vesicula deest, et jam i'n ovi(luctu deerat, It PUItKINJE jainjamn observatit attque ego experltu sum. Jntle vesicuilani colligo ex ovo naturo protrudi et dissolv'i inter vitellunu vitellique metubranam aitue fecundationem. Nusqluatn tamenu membranam vitelli perforat. I)oceuu (lui(lem PnE'VOST et UAMAS, ova ranarum recenls etliti poruIm bl)bere in membraniis Contrarian ego quidem labeo sententiam. Maculam cniin lu- teamr in sunumo vertice ovoruin ranae saepius obviaim ea stubtilitate et pertinztcitate examinavi, qualem rei diflicultas tantorunique virortuin gra- vitas reqiuirunt, at foramen ilon inveni in vitelli memubrina. Piinctulum obscurtium ;i Inacula lutea ab fovea angusta et profuinda in ipso vitellI pendet. Stratum praeterea granuloruin nigrum foramine IlertusiiIu esse idli (Fg. X,VYI b.) et vitellum cum iwateria aliqua minuills gi'uniilosa (nWcke4 scilicet) supra marginees strati dicti eniinere, ut laec outliia Fw. X HFA 0. pmius. Ita(que stratum nigrum ab interiore fadie ad exterio- reni1, illaesa. vitelli inenibrana, pertusum esse clare apparuit. Hfaec ine ens Aprili in Ratna temporaria visa et p'icta oplime congruinit cunm ivesicula protul)eranti'a mense Majo exeunte in Rana esculenta olbservata et magna caverna it us ovis, in qunibus vesicula modo disparuerat. Nec PunKINJE, qui iu avintm ovis. ex vesicula dissoluta nawi conjicit sic (lictuini colliqua-* meititiuit, se(ulii (queo, cum quidnem in ovo maturo vesicula certe ex strato grantuloso jailijiM pronuineat. Practerea, num revera in ovi(diuctu jaln, colliquainento gau'dent ova galliinacea? Liceat igitur mnili quoquie pn-- ponere lhypotliesin, ab ulterioribus disquisitioniul)Us vel i'n (togmila ancien- dlain vel ctun aliWs refittanidlam. Yesicdlam Purkilji l pariem ovi eflicacem essie credo, qua factilta.s newiiinuna vl'in exerceat, tit facultas umascidlill: se- niini illst virili. Vesiculae igitur protrusio et dis-solutio ah ni- llttltiitiItO et forsani irrit.iouell )peullderenit. Post feculidationein vertumu blastoderuiw eO loco evolvitr, (ibio ve(Is il.ae lilitior e'Hluslius est. Macula ellilin ill ovis 'aollitaceis obI0 ' iI itini l m )YMario contui)itii', lmlasloderm,atis jioiln nuoni nieretur, sed ejuss prutlrin ollpos %i(detur. Vitello p1)atIl Iilliln mmsa eSt et 4a1ib)itit 11011 gIuel definiNt cir ripn. in omnl1libus , Ili Uizwl., ovi.s s1iatlum (l(loalli -ralltdilosililh ante btlastoderaitl is evolutioueiii adesi. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions - - 34) v?4 sob *iscil, vvl sadli tmioi4i' mnagis exteisiae i cr1viatat forima, seiii- gKr Iteo d1i1sci prolii(9ri iIn.aumnlimImIn, fie (11lO di;il\il; I* louin teuiells. Nlioora . ,.stimv [lii iti ;.ntii; ()X; sa mnulivro 111otagnopere comuplanat.Ia suilt, quottinlai (ill'idem nihil liii e coliniI)entI , nisi straltim grallulosuln cwn iesin cUla et C(UlilO (F'ig. AXII X i.). In Ophidil'is ei saillriis tmlenm (lisciiiii ill ovis ad sunnnmmh:n1 pn(1)('1 tiialtif'i;tatell) IpIrO1tefi.S; ilt muililm' ef1'cnltlU ilmili halO1)il)blUque p)l). mllnl)Usi e InOtaitimil. Granuht IiIim ili ciltilosl itat Coi)-e- slta ertant, iit ill aliis vnagi, luteis - granolah pl'v.aclercnt , Ill alii.s- ti.a;is oninsetiris - Iatiex grimuola- colnjunig-4-is (- Fg. XtIl.). BlIastodeo1m111. t Conltr'ario ill OidlUOtil serlpellim) post conceponealrn et viesicuikin (lismipIdtU crassitts reperi , supra X iteilloni elevalum 1"tdci('(lelm aol'(rll(ci'c oi., licet-mIa- ginihu!s coUi %iltello concre. m *r I Ihuc esset, ntillis halonibus primimitls nota- tuit, 1 i1n0 oblo)0gul: (liim) (litlenl StIraltun, quo(l ciili di(sco p)roliger4i COIll)O00 , ot')iculIare (e.sCt. Iii batrachsiis, aceplhalis, gastr'opodiitus di- scum piroligerum circa -esiculam non A-i(li ; in lis eitcmiim l)pro diseo imn- nwrsI-M) granulosumn stratum circa vitelli lpatl en majorem blene percipittnr. lIn balraclhi's niigi'tiui est ovn(ille diimnidininil amp)lecclitIur. 11 , I)os1(li;ki VesicUla iwrtforatum est , (t1ra.^,s;siuis fit mtilil ioue in aIIIbitu cresci t, jam bLislodermatis. ivics gerelfs. Discuts vel stratimn proligerum in onlnib)us forsaitan ovis iliqunid ad blistoderma constituendinmn confert ; uibi vero pri- uiliis muagis a nieI)1ln)tba t;itelli (listat , ion fam directe in hlasloderiow mutatur. Sir in Astaco, Iliviaf liii excumite uuminno discuIm proligertuiI in ovis Ill ajoril)umad miuonl.s discrevi, qua; n nmininiis p)ost annos (lC)polel0l- dlis. Menlse, Ar)i'li vero, ub)i ova jam parta sulb cauda inlenniititulr ', pn'i- aiuiltLs l)lastodlermna adest xitilitii, tuni sub fin'ma nebulae indeterminalae apl)Paret (Fig. XXX.), illox solidescit et lilmites (distinclos exilibet, quasi disvi proligeri substantia sensimu semisixiqtiue hliuc inuigraret. Sinmile qluidI IIEIIOLD iin aranearumn ovis obser'va-sse videtur, cumn de nuaculat loquatur dissoluia et dlentio foriuata, Ague ad oorunu conditionem quod attinet, liaec (lulItaxat inonel)o. Ov;i ginionttir iit o0-1aJriortioo p)arenchymte ,lu quo( in superioribus anima- libius, gneratiit sumitis, denflsius esse solet (quamni in inferioribus, in quilms milI stattin) liquidUm ikei fe iioniquil(luai accedit. Cuin rebus coml)araln(dis This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 31 semper cLaritatem afltert, eakautern rem, quaeunique sltf) foaita j)appret, eotlein nomine signare, voce uti v*li'i, qiaae ut)uilue aldhibetia .sit. Vox ,,Sarcoc.arpiuml"', a RICHARD pro p)arlewchymatte p)eriClaiipi (et iltoll eli'a germiniis) pljantarum proposita i alnimabta iion satis i iqutdrare %iletur; Ialiiiii ergo de mycopiltis desuimam, sirorna (Lager) scilicet. Siroma ciliu ovuar; indusio id constiluit, qluoi BuRDACH ;1n onibilius orguni.s proliferis, iel ov a fovealnt vel sporuns, mairieem )lOlnilat. Ova stromtiali vet innata shtsut, ut in pluribus aniunalibus; vel ilnfposita, Ut ill HirUtlinibus, qtauarui.ml-roma singularem tilorum crassiorum formam bla?bet, distamle indUisio. Ova p)rae- terea vel theris coulinenitur (in plurimis animualiibus), vel ;;s carient (in annelilibtus, acanthocephalhs, trematodibus aiiisque). Thecae flenique ve tb ovo cui;ue sunt propriae, qufae res, ni fialsor, tie aunialuail)us verte- brati.s omnblbus v.alet, pluri)usvo ovis communes. 7'heIae commenes pi)r.e- ter ova ina.sam continenit stromalis vices pro singutis ovis gerentem,, et porangiig l)olanicoruin acqulliplrall(dlae subit. Inclusum ihulld stronli itkul dtromualis inter)u nontine a stromale extra thecas posibo dIiuscerlo. vI'/e.- eae ommumnes, quaniumn scio, nunqiaam cum ovalrii ind.iisio concreacke sunt, veruna parlu ejiciunbur cuIn stromiiatbe inferno. In acepialis tadles thert e comnntines manifestae apparent. Quid tlImen de insectis senhliui, dubilus mhuc s.umii: Ovaria igitur iha dlicta pro ineris theeis sumerem communi- bms, sic ult stromila exterinuian omninao (leesset, et materia pulposa iliter ova .sub) tuniris formis (miotlo clavas constituit inter ova silis, modo corpora utriiii(lue excavalta, P isciu v verwebris similnibias, motlo oinumilao deesse vide- bur) oliservaiuda stromalis tnterni nomen menemt-ecbr. Hlaem suadet ovario- runm connexus cunm vase dorsali vel cordle, nec non indusiuma, (111o ovaria inl oIrIcis circuindmabtur. Quo(i si a i-ero noii rece(lere vstifetur, tl;itt tie naemotoideis censendum e.s1? In acanthocephaliis ova ana-issae settifluitlae. inuala snut, ijllult, ctii iii 01aiuii cavitate sit, ati stromta inthernims ilnse.cbto- t-um accetlil , thec;.x % (1o co0m ulInllli)Us n on icltuittibr. Sed bllae sistlli ad va-1,4i; 11143toUvraialitim comtpra11ntta eoruta1lttu coitbenba ciuuit ovario t(tl oiSs idliijiitoihi iliiiiatimalium. Stroma hiubeiitiis in matmmiaibis) .lip5 1i)ihlllI. ('1li stel lt.l i i,ituialae. Nshult vesicululae G.aafiuiuae., 4IIJ4l (:cul1 rtl.aitjoi- inO aimllu1.aliulmJ 0 tos (tmplad'.41;1ae itlirait e\hiui)enlt t0o1cotr- This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 32 xIiani, ctmni ;,d p).tritas cowsiiluenies ti.ntuli re-spicimfs. Contle-raims v. v. mananaaualis ctjts.tana ov;aiUIlI CiJi avis ovlriq 1i 1et 1iiie. Ov;rii iliadmiiuian}, stromlia, I1teac tsl-unit, ea Iuttuaaa diJlea'eu;ia , quod(1 i'tidIisitni et csiro- ma in avibus ranisque telanlior sint, quod iln rtlaids praclerea in(ds'lmui internumn propter initernats cinitates appareat tenuissimuni, quodlque taxulemn lieca Ui raiis ad interiora aj)eri.ttinr et calycena iuiterioreaii .bene diisliam- gueudtuu elliciat. -Veadi tur1 i ielli aueinbraiina, quac in ialhimmalilus ad- est sub nienbranae loruian grauialossae. 'titu miemsabrauna vielli ill a;I)u.% et repiilibus prinlitis stalb inembrintac forman tppareal grtalilIlosac et ex hac sejiungatur, dthljius aon lItatreo vesiculanJa1 ullilllaaurnlinanll (0raaIianain circat lianic patienil tcuI1 ovo reliqntiornnxli aTtinaiiiaw vcrelwtbioruno inntauituro Coikn- poncre. Vitellus aviuni et rt1marumti e granull's pernulltis vitellitais Ianillo- ri(uc (quantitate alb)utliliis Iluidli Consult. Vesicultie Graalianae eo (tillual- X.It (Jil ulntli, plO(l uliaillor'eav hiheanlt grilumforumn qu.aniitatnm, majorean conitra Iluiii haulii allibuminosi. Praelerea ovis siniiles siilt. Hhbaeit vce-si- culanai catiaia incluisauti (ovuiuitn scilicet iU nlamanialib)us) cunUtlo ian mersaiU stiratuanlllte Proligeruia nitIlle I e(sicll1alu cingeus tun ic ei sul)Ceajicenl.s. Fesi- elta ergo (ira(fiana ro ad ovaU#ritnI generawlimte ad corpits rn(der- niiun respiriamUas, oe'vtl .saCie est m,a,nunalitan. Sell evolutionein qulodt atiliel , iceiitenilier (liscrepidt it reli(jnortlni ovo a9itinalitim, quoruiii ovi ntucleus integer ex ovario dlev-eaiitur , fetni nasciluro noni selede tnintuii praeltilurIs se(I in ipssum potius fetuni ii'ansformiand1nis. In wanailnlat ibut s vero ve*kicta iin(uda vitelIuna mlagis exutluiti contuinet ct rationte adfti- tuta geNtiitirian hab/ua veruna sese proba! ovumiii. Ovium fetale dici possit in ovo mnaterno. 1launknalia ergo habI)enat ouani in ovo aut, si h1uc dlicenili Ioratula uii licet, ovunu in sec-untla potenlia. ) Quam flifereni.a-n ut nkaelius concipiamus, ad saurio.s redleamuus el ophi(liOiio, quorlulOal OvitIi -ad( ill.ainlollitnau oiuIIt i prOplius) acce(it (,u.n1i(nli- qtiuldeia v'esirala P'trkisji ad1 iaaturiittema graitulormin vitelliamoruni haitudl ?3 Quajinyter in vesicIta Graariana. *dtxcriIwnda J. 4. voce .#li emper umin stuu, 1ui. ,sicllsa Grai.datiau ispa o tii i ert. rtrrpectio novar;s, t'* Ovio) autlt fit o0luil fetale. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 33 parvam continet copiarn in ateculumn initernuurnni demum coaulescenlitnu. Uiide haec concordia! Lacertaruin et serpentuin ovia in o-iduictu saelpius exaimi- n.a-vi et fettim in oviduct per plures liebdomuades enoIi didlici, et 11O01 deponii, nisi allaitoide jamn beuie exculta ad I reSpiratio'nlilnlue in se reci- piendaln apta, serpenitbhus alilitot ct lacerva crocea exceplis, fetum us(jue a(d ovi velamentorum rupturam retinentil)us. I) Ix (1110 coincludo: quao dliot- tius in corpore niateno felus foventtur, co mUagis jant primilus exeti1la videtutr ovi vesicuda inuaala, quae in ,nammalibus eo p(ervenit ut OMlnes ovi virliies iw sese recipiat et reliqutae ovi parkes 1rvlvi n1olnenti extra- neac quasi fiant. Quae senitentia ex ohservationibus liausta niirifice sane cum bypothiesi nostra congruit, vesicidlanm Purkinji partem esse effica- cemn sexus sequioris; nam quo major ;is matris in (NeLimn, eo magis ex- culta esse dehet pars ovi eflicax, eoque diutuiriior pulli sedes in matis corpore. Crediderin fere comnnioratioiiem fetus a fl.itris potius vi et iiide ab indfole ovi pelidere, quam a fetus necessitate. Nam ovil ex oiductu Lacertarum promhi.i fetu's mirniime moritur. Finemr jamjam assecutus quandiani solvere lul)et d6u)itationem. Quae- rent enim fortasse nonnulli: quid? cum vesiculae Graafianae ova reli(quo- rum animaliumn aequant, quae est causa, cur in mammalibus duniiaxat cor- pus luteum oriatur? Quibus licQ ab ovarii stromate et thecae indole pendere respondeo. Ilud enim in solis mammalibus tantae est densitatis, ut thecae cito collabi nequeant. Atque thecas quod attinet, in avibus, quas exempli gratia eligimus, microscopio adhjibito, puncta in stramto interno exIlibent pel- lucida, quae vel pervia vasorumque fines sunt, vel cuticula tenui tanitun teguitur. Quibus igitur punctis secretio facillime efficitur. in .ni alibu-s; lucidiora quidem iuon desunt puncta; minime tamen perforata-, verwn ita constituta, quales sunt cryptae mucip)arae in -nieilulaiiis mnucosis, quan- tum anatoniicis innotuerutlt: conitra in mammalibus Vasa in uterun ') Lacerta crocea %Volffti ccrtb vi'ipara est. Ejutsdem fetuas jam tere contecto ex ovi- ductu excidi. A Laceria agili, noni obstante magna verhornuo tarragiine a FEfuo. SCmULTZ in Verzeichniss der Doubleern dles z-onlogikhen M,uaetunq :u Berlia, 1823, p. 93 seq. prolatal toto coelo diversa est. Differt uon) tantunm colore et agotudine,t sed poris (emoralibus4 collaris et quanmarum structura. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 34 hiant, ubi humorum tuztritiorun major quam in tlhecas affluxus esl. Ete- nim talia ostia nec ita parva in aliquot uteris vidi distinctissime. Itaque ian manmalibus secretionem in theca eo modo perfici persuasum baheo, queni D)OELLINGER eXpOSUit, i. e. praeeuiite organi secernentis autriti- one, in ceteris aniniaLbus *itellum ex sanguine polius ita secerni, qua- lem veteres secretionem generatim cred(lderunt. His qtiam plurimun arri- dere JOANNIS M1UELLER detectt in insectis, non est, cur moneam. Trans- itum enim viisoruiu in oi'arii thecas expowuit. Quuae cum ita sint, fa- cile profeato perspicies, in mammalibus materia Iormnativa per humorum congestionem advecta thecas aniphlicari incr.sarique, atque in avibus ex eadem materia jam statim fieri secretionene. Xitello eiuim ai ium ejecto diminui qulidem illam secrotionem se(I noni prorsus sisti, inde colligo, quod, si contra regulam in avibus stigma (lenuo concrescit, calyx liumore vitello simili impletur. Calyces liujusnio(di Pu INI N!E pro ovis corruptis habet, at vero, nisi niemoria me falit, enibeiraia sitefli carent. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 35 C ) II C- I/ t V i O. Oinnie aninual, qpuod coitin aris et efeillinae giglntur. ex ovo evol- vitur, iullunii ex inero liquor-e ioriuia1iio. .Semten virile per cuticulani owi, iulIo ior'aiuiiie perviam. in onvtn et praepriniis in partem quandaip ovi innatlan atgit. Evoluiio omnis e centro ad peripberiain tend(lit. Partes ergo ceii- trales ante pei'ipliericas formantur. Idein evolutionis mo(Ius in omnibus aninialibus vertebr'atis a rbaclbide incipiews. Sed finem imponam epistolae jain aequo longiori, VESTRO judicio, quae in hac dlisqui.sitione exposui, subjiciens. In mammalibus si quid novi inveni, id non perspectum babuisse mne confiteor, nisi DOELLINGERI ac PANDERI observationibus edoctus fuissein. Quapropter yoti, quod intimo pectore foveo, enuncianidi veniiain a Vois.s peto. Faxit Deus ter Optimus MNaximus, ut VESTER PANDER pertina- cissimo morbo a titeris detentus pristinam recuperet valetudinem, ut cuin laurea, annis jam juvenibus sibi vindicata, alias aetate tirili paratas con- jungat in patriae gloriam et scientiae naturalis increinenlumn. Valete mihioue favere nolite (lesinere. Dahain Regiomonti. Prid. ldumu (Oinct. 1827 Baer. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Tabulae explicatio. Figpras exhibitas Ita disponere studni, tit earurn conspecti contempIa- tor citiuis ea perspiciat, quae in epistola tractavi. H;ic ex ca1Usa, eaedem res, si magititudine naturali et turm aucta niaguiitudinie proponuntur, iisdem numeris signanttiur, et quident ita, ut signa aralrbic maigimititlitiem naturilrem, romaila decies atictam, romana cumin asterisco (11*) tricies aluctanin nm.agiuitutdiiiem imtdi- cent. Ubi liieola suipra nunmerinm ronianium aa(lest, figura vicies aucta est, lineola, inifra niumeri sigiuniin roinaiini quinq(Iiuies aticinn fbigran indicdt. Praeteren nagnituidinis inaturalis figuiras in primiani scriein disposui, tricies auietas in tertiani seriem. Moneudtuni deiii(qiuc est, in binis zouns atris ea, quac pelluicida sunit olb scuriorai v-idcri, coiitra, (Jl1iUi ala pictat sittit, albedinemi oli pollicidimn Itabere. Zomis illas clegi, ut ob)scurit.s ovuloruim nuiiioriim miielihis in ocuilos iuicidat. Ha.ee jamil est figurartini siuglIarumn cspficatio: ill primal serie, obviartim' Fig. 1. Oi-ltttni minuts ex ovario c'.li-si disco 0tXs. Syzmicetriitceaii sa t,lutuiui figtirkie auIctu'. llC il miagitudiie iiuitllriili ii(ljiecre voltii, lie. t ovi n tim puarvtiii sit, tit u scilpltore it.. ex;irari n1oni possit, man al) ocullis aicutioribus vix p)ercil)itllr. Fig. 2. (Oytluni eiiniis ex 1a ario, IllAutrius, cillia isi;co piroli-ero. Magn, nact. ill sccitiuida scrice ot)viaruln F;g. 1. Leuiii dlccies atu- Kg. IL tlen ee .i -efilln.Par.sd{isci p-rolig,eni atIlatta est tit meuuhra-l 1;a cortticllix jsla forinia- t;, ill VoInpcuttI tilm) * Biat. il tertia serie o)vianiruml. F.g. L. Itdeni tricics atu- cthiui ad dhiscinn proli- gertini plcniis demoll- straIxl(IIJfl. Figr. 1I." Ejusdern globuluas tlilalceraltuts ;1(} demeioni- straud(l.unm cavitattem. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions - 37 Fig, 3 OvuIn cais ex tuba Fig. III. Ident Mdecies uu- Fig. IiI. *Idem trices Fallopii. Magu. Iiat. ctllu. allCtuim. Fig. 4. OvumL caiis ex ute. Fig. IV. Idlem decies au- Fig. IV. " Ejusdem ovi ro, jam pellucidutm, liai- ctunm et (Illidem il. particila mmb)ranie metro. lin. MagL. nat. iinteriuae tricies ;ucta. Fig. Ir.i' ita vsuns, uvt blastodermatis primor- dliunnw infiniuiim locuarn tenieat, qut;lre oblscurians apparet; Fig. IV.b a lattere visuim post nicnibrallarum, se- parationent. Fig. 5. Ovumn canlis ex Fig./,. Iden decies an- FKg. V. Ejlsdem ovi uItero ina.tgis evollttuiil ctUflu particula membranue et pellutidluni (In,umctr. iuteriiae tr'icies aucta. a bin. )h.,ag. nat. Fig. V. post muiltas boras vatldc collapsuum, l)Idsto- dlerinate a ialtere viso. Fig. V.b Turge,is, blasto- doernate locitiun Mipre- mansll1 teaiciite. Fig. 6. Ovum Kgmfm F. VI. Ejutsdsem ovi rc- dillodecin diernuiis cam tius aluctuis. cmnlryolie mnagniitudinie nit,tulrali (adl icoiieni, (ian (leldertit Pr E - YosT .et DUIAS, recu- slim.) Fig. 7. Oviiui C1aiiitnlln F;igr. rii. jusdlem. ovi fe- Fig. FI. Villi ejusdlem tritins circiter hebdo- tits (lecies aiuettis, a li- ovi tricies aucti. ma(lum, mnigulitLdile tore et sectioiie traiis- nautrali, versa pictus. Apparet eniini in Fig. Yl.^ Fettus caniiiuls, lateri sinistro imicumbens, resecta raginae capitis pnrte dlextra, ucc tiott sacci itettstinlalls Innprte dextra. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 38 a. 6. Transitus laminlae pituitosae sacci i 8testitklis in vaginuam capitis. i. e. d. e. Vagina capitis lissecta. e.f. Vena descendens tiectra reelicnata. f"' locus, quiemx primitus teistueriat. e. g. Atrium cortis. h. Ventricultis cor(lis. i. i. PericarditLn. A. BuUmis. 1. Aorta. m. n. 0. Encephalon. iw. Auris et nmedllla obloit.ata. n. Corpus qaua(lrigelnilultm. o. Oculuis et cerebrum. p. Adituts ad intestitiiiani erasslurn. e. p. Sutuara vel sulcuts initestiini medii. q.r.e.p. Intestini paries siinister. s.t.e.p. blitestini parics dexter. q.-r. Angidus, quio paries itntestinii sinistei- in saccuni intestirillein trallnsit. u.v.w. Area vasciItosa. q.r.w. Area peflltcida. u.s. Vena ascendeus. X.y. ' et 4 Amniiou. _. Sacus utriniarius s. Allanitois. Fig. VID. Ei:jusdem emlbryonis sectio transversa in nedlio dorso lacta, Iclies aucta. t. Dorsi clminen. a. 6. Lainina dorsalis. 6. c. Laniuiia ventralis. d. Saccuts initestin;alis. e. Aiiglultls, (lquo intestihd panries ins sacuni intestinalem transit. d. e. ergo linibus sectiunduis WOLFFII. f. Sutura nlltestinli aped UvoaJF. g. Coluimnae vertebralis primiordiulr. hi. Chordla dorsalis. ;. Aniiiiitln. k. Medulla spillis. fig. VII. Corlora a,lieiia, in uttero et tiibisi obvi,t, deiexs anuta. 1. 111111451' oleosae) This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 39 II. Concrementa albuminosa. mII. Telan celulosae particulee. IV. Membrauae granulosae fruistuila. Fig. LX. Vesicula Graafiana (mediae magitudinis) scrofao, 1ecies aicta, ad axin dissecta. I. Epitheliuim peritoneale. 2. Tela formativa (stromat). 3. Stratum externum 4. Strattum internumt tbecae. xx Stigma 5. Membrania granuulosa 6. Fliditm contenitii n| e 7. Discuis proligertis 8. Ovulum Fig. X. Discuts proUgeruis suis Ctiwni fluidli condensati parte. Fig,. XI. Menmbrauuae grqaulosac frutstiliuini, decies auct. Fig. XIl. Ovultim cii (liSCO proligero v4.CC,lC decies auct. Fig. XlII. Ovulinm cium slisco proligero et memlbrana granilosa honisni de- cies axictiun. Fig. XIV. Corpus luteum cauis, slecies illict. 1. Epithelilim peritoneale. 2. Tela formativa. 3. Thecae stratm externum. 4. Corputs luteum. i. Ejus apertura. 6. A1;1ssa albluminosa. 7. Corporis luttei cicatricula inchoata. Fig. XV. Stigma vesiculae Graafiauae suais deorwum inspectum, decies aictum. Fig. XVI. - XXX. Animalium inferiornm ova, vel horunm partes. Fig. XVI. - XrIIl. Ova serpentum. Fig. XVI. Stratum proligerum ex ovo Colub. N.stricis maturo, quinquies auctum. Fig. XVII. Ejusdem ' esicula Pttrkinji inimatura, decies aicta. Fig. XVII. Eadem matura, decies auct. Fig. XIX - XXIL Ova lacertarum. Ftig. XIX. Stratum granutlosuim ex ovo Lacertae agilis, dec. ait. Fig,. XX. Lacertac agilis ovum junitls, decies auict. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Fig. XXI. rVesictIa ex ovo fere anatutro Lacertae agilis, dec. anct. KFig. XXI. Vesiciala. ex ova matturo Lacertae croceac, dec. auict. Fig. XXII. - XAVI. Ova railartun. Fig. XXJiI. OVim immaturuinf Ranae temporari;ae, (lec. aict. Lociit i Wi stratutm proligertim orittir. Fig. XXI[r. Ovunm Ralaa temp. fere matturtim, acido nitrico diluto condensat.um *-et MId axiii lowaiorem dissectuam, decies atlcturn. NB. Colores tales dedimus iccesi, qttales ovumn ramiilun iii acido aiitrico diltato iidciii, quu1a his optiuce pares diversae disceniaicatir. ig. XXV'. Idem ovum miittturtin proptillaiite v-esictula, dec. atact. Fig. XXI!. IdeIii ovIIm exptilsa evesictila, dec. atuict. In tribuas siltinmis figuris uiotavimus ctina signo o, menibranam vitelli, 6, blastoderma in statia evoluto (Fig. XXVrI) et in statit imnmaturo, qllo str.atum proligeruim nostrtum est, c, vitelluim, d, %-esicudlam Paurkinji. Fig. XXVl. Ejusdem ovi pars suprema vicies aucta. Fig. XXVII. - XXX. Astaci fluviatilis ova. Fig. XXVII. OvIIN juniius Astaci flitviatilis ciam lisco proligero deor'sun i - spectatm, decies aucttum. Fig. XXVI"IlI. Idem a lattere. Fig. AXIX. Ovtm provectius. Fig. XXX. Ovum mciaturum cum blastodermatis primordiis, quinquies aucttuni. This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions C o r r i ge i i d11. Pag. 4) vera. 3 pro consecta lege: conrecia - 10 6 - Fig. V. - Fig. Va. -12 2- pat - Apo% - 14 - 10 - delphinnm, phocaenam lege: delphinuqp phoiacnam - 14 - 23 - vesiculis lege: *caiculae - 17 - ultimo v-ox: a deleatur - 23 I - catenas lege: centenat - 31 I - apparet - appareat - 31 - 23 - t;milibus sinti1ia Priorem libelli partem perlegens, quam ex typo:heca jam remissam habeo, vereor -ne ea, qutae pag. 4- de canalis intesiinalis origine obiLer docui, Iect9res in erroreso ducane. Clarin. ergo ita exponam. intestini fundus not ex coalbtione dtzarum plicarurz oritur. Co- lescuint qitideen plicae strati vasculosi blastodermatis, quo fit mesenterium; stratma mucostum vero inde protruditur et funduam intestini cum parietibst conatituit. Q(ae lio loco ftsiti, tenionstrabo. 13 This content downloaded from 140.209.2.26 on Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:13:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions