Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ: including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiologyBerger, E. W. (Edward William)
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Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ: including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiology
Berger, E. W. (Edward William)
Cubomedusae
Further, we may conceive each of the centrad processes of the long
pigment cells as receiving a fiber from one of the sensory cells directly
as well as indirectly, as just described. While I have been able to
demonstrate only a single centrad process for the sensory cells (prism
and pyramid cells), yet this does not exclude the possibility of a nerve
fibril passing out from such a centrad process to one of the processes
of the long pigment cells, and it seems possible that this constitutes
the reflex mechanism. That nerve fibrils ramify in ganglion and sensory
cells, and may even leave these cells to join those of other cells, has
been well demonstrated by Apathy,[6] so that my finding only a single
process of the visual cells leading centrad without giving off lateral
fibers cannot be a serious objection. Again, fine nerve fibers coming
off from the main centrad process of sensory cells in medusæ have been
figured by other observers, among whom I mention the Hertwigs. Careful
macerations at the seashore would probably demonstrate them for Charybdea.
Hesse thinks that the eyes of the Alciopidæ are adjustable. He describes
what he supposes to be muscle fibers just exterior (distal) to the lens,
and believes that a contraction of these fibers would have the effect of
forcing the lens nearer the retina, or _vice versa_. His supposition,
like mine, needs experimental verification. Hitherto the only instance
known of accommodation in the eyes of invertebrates was that described by
Beer[17] for Cephalopods.
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