The following decennial was of marked importance in the judgment of many disputed questions. Almost contemporaneously with Siebold and Stannius’ Lehrbuch appeared an opportune treatise by Erichson, in which this naturalist first brought forward certain anatomical data as to the structure of the antennæ of insects. In a great number of insects Erichson described on the upper surface of the antennæ peculiar minute pits, “pori,” which, according to him, were covered by a thin membrane, and to which he ascribed the perception of smell. A still more thorough work on this subject was published in the following year by Burmeister, who recognized in the pits of lamellicorns many small tubercles and hairs; and about the same time Slater, as also Pierret and Erichson before him had done, out of the differences of the antennal development in the males and females in flesh and plant-eating insects, brought together the proof of the olfactory function of the antennæ. But the most valuable work of this period is that of Perris, who, after a review of previous opinions, by exact observations and experiments, a model of their kind, sought to discover the seat of the sense of smell. He comes to the conclusion that the antennæ, and perhaps also the palpi, may claim this sense, and finds full confirmation of Dufour’s views, and adopts as new the physiological possibility expressed by Hill and Bonnet, that the antennæ might be the seat of both senses—those of smell and hearing.