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A LABORATORY MANUAL FOR 
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A LABORATORY MANUAL 
 
 FOR 
 
 ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 By 
 L. H. yHYMAN 
 
 Department of Zoology, University of Chicago 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 
 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
 
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 Published May 1919 
 
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
 
 This laboratory manual was prepared for the dass in elementary zoology in 
 the University of Chicago, and has been used in this course for some time. In 
 the three months' time allotted for the course, nearly all of the work given in 
 sections I to XII, inclusive, is completed, with the exception of the muscular and 
 skeletal systems of the frog. The remaining sections have been added for pub- 
 lication because they seem to the author to be essential for a complete course in 
 general zoology. The directions have been written entirely from the material, 
 although, of course, many textbooks have been consulted throughout. An 
 attempt has been made, not merely to give explicit directions for the study of the 
 material, but also to point out the relation of each section of the work to the 
 general principles of biology and to make clear why each particular kind of 
 material has been selected. The sections are given, naturally, in the order 
 which the author thinks most logical, but they can be shifted at the will of the 
 instructor. Our experience, extending over many years of trial of both methods, 
 has shown that starting the course with the dissection of a complex animal is 
 much more satisfactory than introducing the student at the start to the lower 
 invertebrates, for the reason that the simplicity of the latter cannot be appre- 
 ciated and understood except with reference to completely differentiated animals. 
 Any vertebrate would serve the purpose, but the arthropods are in general unsuit- 
 able because they introduce the problem of heteronomous segmentation for which 
 the beginner is not prepared. Many teachers will object that the instructions 
 are too detailed and that it is better pedagogy to compel the student to work 
 out things by himself; but the large amount of ground which must be covered 
 in a relatively short time and the impossibility of providing sufficient laboratory 
 assistants for the large classes with which we have to deal necessitate detailed 
 directions. The student pursuing the modern college curriculum simply does 
 not have time to carry out an original investigation on the anatomy of an animal; 
 and unless he is provided with detailed directions, instructors and assistants are 
 overburdened with the task of explaining to him what he is looking at, what to 
 do next, etc. There is no reason why this extra work cannot be avoided by 
 including these explanations in the manual. 
 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS 
 
 1. Obtain from the cashier's office a biology breakage ticket ($5.00). Take 
 this to the office of the superintendent of buildings and grounds (Room 2, Press 
 Building) and present it for a microscope. Ask for a compound microscope with 
 high and low objectives and oculars. Rental charge for the microscope will be 
 deducted from the ticket. Procure a padlock, bring your microscope to the 
 laboratory, and follow 4. 
 
 2. Deposit your breakage ticket with the storekeeper in Room 10, Botany 
 Building. Supplies needed for the laboratory are obtained from this storeroom, 
 the cost is checked off on the breakage ticket, and the unused portion of the 
 ticket is refunded later. 
 
 3. Obtain at Room 10, Botany Building, after you have deposited the 
 breakage ticket, the following supplies: 
 
 One fine scissors. 
 
 Two small forceps with straight points. 
 
 One medium-sized scalpel. 
 
 One probe. 
 
 Six slides. 
 
 Two teasing needles. 
 
 One dozen square cover glasses. 
 
 Three medicine droppers. 
 
 One tripod hand lens. 
 
 A paper of pins. 
 
 A towel. 
 
 A padlock. 
 
 If you already have some of these materials, do not, of course, purchase 
 new ones. 
 
 4. Select a locker in the laboratory or have one assigned to you and place 
 your padlock on the door. Keep your microscope, instruments, and drawing 
 materials in this locker. If you want a clothes locker in the hall, buy a 50 cent 
 key deposit ticket from the cashier's office, and present this for a key at Room 2, 
 Press Building. 
 
 5. Purchase the following drawing materials (University Press or other 
 
 bookstore) : 
 
 Drawing paper, No. 6 a smooth, stiff paper is required. 
 
 Note paper, No. 6. 
 
 Notebook cover, No. 6. 
 
 Hard pencil, 6H. 
 
 Eraser. 
 
 Ruler. 
 
 Pad of sandpaper for sharpening the pencil. 
 
 vii 
 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS 
 
 6. Books referred to are Holmes's Biology of the Frog and Hegner's Introduc- 
 tion to Zoology. Purchase these only if directed by the instructor. 
 
 7. Select a place in the laboratory and write your name on the table with a 
 piece of chalk or paste a gummed label with your name on the table at the place 
 chosen. 
 
 8. Present yourself with all of the foregoing materials ready for work at the 
 beginning of the first laboratory period. Do not handicap yourself at the start 
 by delaying to provide yourself with the necessary outfit. The microscope will 
 not be needed for the first few days. 
 
 9. A box of slides will be issued to each student later in the course. Examine 
 them to see that none are broken or damaged. These slides are to be returned 
 at the end of the quarter, and a charge of 50 cents will be made for each broken 
 or injured slide. Students are requested to handle the slides with care. 
 
 General Instructions Regarding Drawings 
 
 1. All drawings must be made on good quality drawing paper with a hard 
 pencil. As experience has shown that hard pencil drawings are the most satis- 
 factory, no other kind will be accepted. 
 
 2. All drawings must be made from the actual material, unless otherwise 
 directed, and completed in the laboratory. The making of rough sketches in 
 the laboratory to be completed elsewhere is unscientific, inaccurate, and not 
 permissible. Drawings copied from textbooks will not be accepted. 
 
 3. The drawing should contain all structures mentioned in the outlines, as 
 only those readily found are called for. In case you cannot find any structures 
 mentioned, ask the assistants to help you. Put into the drawing only what you 
 have actually seen, and in case you were unable to find certain things make a 
 note to that effect under the drawing. 
 
 4. The prime requisite of a drawing is accuracy, i.e., it must resemble the 
 actual specimen before the student as closely as possible. Drawings are not 
 to be diagrammatized unless the outlines expressly direct to make them so. 
 Next to accuracy, neatness and good arrangement on the page are desirable. 
 
 5. Make your drawings large enough to show dearly all details asked for; 
 students tend to make drawings too small. The more details called for, the 
 larger the drawing must be. 
 
 6. Always keep the pencil sharp by means of sandpaper. 
 
 7. Draw on one face of the page only, on the face which lies to your right 
 hand with your notebook open. 
 
 8. Label fully. Label everything in the drawing regardless of whether the 
 same structures have already been labeled in some previous drawing. With a 
 ruler draw a straight line out from the object to be labeled and write or print 
 the label so that it is parallel to the top and bottom edges of the page. 
 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS ix 
 
 9. Do not write notes on the drawings. Write them on separate pages and 
 insert them next to the drawings to which they refer. 
 
 10. Students who declare that they "cannot draw" will receive little sym- 
 pathy. Anyone can make the simple line drawings required hi this work. To 
 make a drawing proceed as follows. First determine how large it is to be and 
 select a proper space on the page. Then rule this space with very light vertical 
 and horizontal guide lines so that your drawing will be symmetrical. With a 
 ruler further reduce or enlarge the length or width of the actual object to fit the 
 space selected. Then with very light lines make an outline of the object; then, 
 constantly referring to the object, correct this with light lines until the propor- 
 tions and details are as nearly like the object as you can possibly get them. 
 Then erase the light lines until you can barely see them, and go over them making 
 the final lines firm and clear. Every line upon the drawing must represent a 
 structure actually present on the object. Avoid shading, color, crosshatch- 
 ing, etc. 
 
 Notes 
 
 1. Whenever desirable, notes are to accompany the drawings and are to be 
 written on separate sheets which are to be inserted in the notebook adjacent to 
 the sheet containing the drawings. 
 
 2. Avoid detailed notes containing material in the laboratory outlines. 
 
 3. The notes will consist of: 
 
 a) Answers to questions contained in the laboratory outlines unless such 
 questions are obviously answered in the drawings. 
 
 b) Additional explanations, original observations, or comments upon any 
 of the laboratory work as the student sees fit. 
 
 c) Complete accounts of experiments performed in the laboratory, whether 
 individual or demonstration. This account should follow some such plan as 
 this: (i) purpose of the experiment, (2) observations and results, (3) conclusions 
 and explanations. 
 
 4. It is preferable but not compulsory that the notes be written in ink. Write 
 on one side of the paper only. 
 
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 Additional Miscellaneous Directions 
 
 1. The letter (A) signifies consult the assistant; (R), consult a textbook; 
 (Z,), the matter will probably be discussed in the lectures. 
 
 2. Right and left refer to the animal, not to the student, unless so stated. 
 
 3. All work is to be individual unless the supply of material is insufficient. 
 
 4. When handling small living animals with a dropper be sure that the dropper 
 has never been used for chemicals. Have one dropper plainly marked which 
 you use only for water or other harmless solutions. It has often happened that 
 
X GENERAL DIRECTIONS 
 
 the entire supply of animals for the class has been killed because some careless 
 student used a dropper which he had previously employed for chemicals. 
 
 5. In dropping a cover glass upon a slide, first put one edge of the cover 
 glass against the slide until the liquid on the slide comes in contact with the 
 cover glass, then lower the cover glass slowly. In this way, air bubbles under 
 the cover glass are avoided. 
 
 6. Mount living animals in water. The water should be sufficient in amount 
 to come to the edges of the cover glass but not enough to cause the cover glass 
 to float about. Absorb extra water with a piece of filter paper. While examin- 
 ing living animals be careful that the water does not dry up. When this happens 
 the animals will begin to slow down their movements, to flatten out, and finally 
 to burst. Replenish the water from time to time by placing a drop in contact 
 with the edge of the cover glass. 
 
 7. Living tissues of an animal must be mounted in fluid of the same osmotic 
 pressure as the fluids of the animal. In the case of the frog, this is a . 6 per cent 
 solution of common salt. 
 
 8. When dissecting, have the animal firmly fastened to the wax bottom of the 
 dissecting tray with pins. Insert the pins obliquely, not vertically, so that they 
 will not get in your way. Dissection is usually to be carried out under water. 
 Dissect with blunt instruments, forceps, or probe, and have an instrument in 
 each hand, one to hold the part, the other to dissect with. Never cut anything 
 unless you are sure what you are cutting. Dissect lengthwise along blood 
 vessels, nerves, tubes, etc., not across them. 
 
 9. In staining tissues, use a small amount of the stain. If the stain is applied 
 before the cover glass is put on, drop a small drop of the stain on the tissue, then 
 cover. If the stain is applied after the cover glass has been put on, place a drop 
 of the stain in contact with one edge of the cover glass, apply a piece of filter 
 paper to the opposite edge, and draw the stain under by suction. It generally 
 requires a few minutes for a stain to act, especially when living animals are to be 
 stained. If too much stain is used the whole structure becomes uniformly 
 stained, so that the details are blotted out. In this case, make a new prep- 
 aration or remove the excess stain by running a little dilute acid under the 
 cover glass. 
 
 The Use of the Microscope 
 
 i. Parts of the microscope. Remove the instrument from the case. It con- 
 sists of a horse shoe-shaped base from which arises a vertical pillar, from which 
 extends an arm supporting a vertical, hollow tube; below this a square or round 
 stage, with a central opening; under the stage, a condenser; and below the 
 condenser, a movable mirror. At the lower end of the tube is a swinging nose- 
 piece, into which the lenses are to be screwed. The condenser is a system of 
 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS xj 
 
 lenses for focusing light upon the stage. Just below the condenser is an iris 
 diaphragm; holding the lens in the top of the tube with one hand, turn the 
 microscope upside down so that you can see the diaphragm. Note that the 
 diaphragm is composed of movable leaves which are moved by a button at 
 the side of the diaphragm. Slide the button back and forth and note effect on 
 the size of the opening formed by the leaves. The mirror has two surfaces, 
 plane and concave. When the condenser is in use, the plane surface of the mirror 
 is to be employed, as the concave mirror converges the light, and thus conflicts 
 with the action of the condenser. 
 
 2. The lenses. Find on a shelf in the microscope box, two cylindrical metal 
 cases. Unscrew these and remove from them the objectives. These objectives 
 are marked 3 and 7 (German system) or 16 mm. and 4 mm. (American system). 
 Note that 3, or 16 mm., is shorter, has a larger lens, and is therefore of a lower 
 power of magnification than 7, or 4 mm. Screw the objectives into place in the 
 nosepiece, holding each with both hands while doing so to avoid possibility of 
 dropping. 
 
 On another shelf in the miscroscope box will be found two eyepieces or oculars. 
 These are Nos i and 3, or 4X and 8X ; the first-named one is in each case the 
 lower power. Place the No. i or 4X eyepiece in the top of the tube. 
 
 3. The adjustment screws. On the arm between the pillar and the tube is a 
 pair of vertical screws. These move the tube considerable distances at each 
 turn, and are therefore designated as the coarse adjustment. At the top of the 
 pillar is a horizontal screw, the fine adjustment, which moves the tube only a 
 very short distance at each turn. Turn each of the screws and note the effect 
 on the tube. When the fine adjustment is turned clockwise, the tube moves 
 down; when counter-clockwise, it moves up. 
 
 4. To use the low power: 
 
 a) Swing the low-power objective into place, and place the low-power eye- 
 piece in the top of the tube. 
 
 b) While looking through the eyepiece, turn the mirror toward the light 
 until the field of the microscope becomes suddenly bright. 
 
 c) Place the object to be examined, mounted on a glass slide, in the center 
 of the opening on the stage. 
 
 d) While watching the objective from the outside, lower the tube by means 
 of the coarse adjustment until the objective is close to the slide. 
 
 e) While looking into the eyepiece, slowly raise the tube by means of the 
 coarse adjustment until the object comes into view. It is now said to be in focus. 
 Note the distance from the object at which the lower power comes to focus. 
 
 /) Adjust the light to the best advantage by means of the iris diaphragm. 
 This is a very important point. Students, as a rule, use too much light, which 
 drowns out the details of the object and is hard upon the eyes. Always adjuM 
 the light for every object looked at. 
 
rii GENERAL DIRECTIONS 
 
 g) If the object is very transparent, reduce the amount of light before begin- 
 ning to focus, because too much light will make it invisible. Moving the slide 
 slightly while trying to focus will facilitate the process. 
 
 5. To use the high power: 
 
 a) The object must always be under a cover glass when the high power is to 
 be used. 
 
 b) The high power cannot be used with thick or thickly mounted objects. 
 
 c) The object to be viewed must always be found first with the low power. 
 Never try to examine anything first with the high power. Place the object or part 
 of the object which you desire to study with the high power in the exact center 
 of the low-power field. 
 
 d) Swing the nosepiece around so that the high-power objective comes into 
 place. 
 
 e) The object should now be nearly in focus and is brought into exact focus 
 by means of the fine adjustment. If the object is not in focus when the high 
 power is swung into place, the microscope is not perfectly adjusted and the 
 following procedure must be followed : 
 
 (1) The center of the field of the high power may not be the same as the 
 center of the field of the low power. The object will therefore not be in the field 
 at all when the high power is swung around. The remedy is to find out where the 
 center of the high-power field is on the low-power field and to place the object 
 there instead of in the center when preparing to use the high power. 
 
 (2) The focus of the high power may not be the same as the focus of the low 
 power. This is the common difficulty. The remedy is to screw the tube up 
 or down after the high power is in place until a focus is obtained. You will 
 have to find out by trial whether to screw up or down. If up, then always 
 remember to raise the tube of the microscope before swinging the high power 
 into place, as otherwise the objective will strike against the slide. 
 
 (3) Have the assistant help you find out the peculiarities of your microscope. 
 /) After getting a focus, adjust the amount of light by means of the diaphragm. 
 
 The amount of light best for the high power is never that best for the low power. 
 
 g) Note how close to the slide the high-power focuses. For this reason thick 
 objects cannot be viewed under the high power, and care must always be taken 
 not to run the objective into the slide, as this will break the slide and may injure 
 the lens. 
 
 6. Plane of focus. As the microscope is an optical instrument, the planes 
 of focus of its lenses are geometrical planes, i.e., planes without thickness. All 
 objects viewed through the microscope have an appreciable thickness. It is 
 therefore obvious that no object, no matter how thin it is, can be seen in its totality 
 in a single plane of focus, as some parts are certain to lie outside that plane. 
 // is therefore necessary to change the focus continually while mewing an object in 
 the microscope. This is particularly essential when using high powers. Students 
 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS xiii 
 
 almost invariably make the grave mistake of getting an object in focus, and then 
 examining it without any further change of focus, with the result that they do not 
 see all parts of the object, nor get a true idea of the relation in space of the parts. 
 The practiced microscopist never takes his hand from the fine adjustment screw 
 but continually changes the focus as he looks. The student should at once form 
 a habit of doing likewise. 
 
 7. Moving the slide. As the image in the microscope is reversed, the slide 
 must be moved in the opposite direction from that in which it is desired to move 
 the image. This will soon become a habit. In moving a slide, do not put both 
 hands upon it but grasp it by the edges between the thumb and index ringer of 
 one hand. This leaves the other hand free to shift the focusing screw. 
 
 8. Miscellaneous directions: 
 
 a) If the image is dim or indistinct, or if the field rolls, or if the high power 
 cannot be focused, then in all probability the lens is dirty or wet. Clean it 
 with an old, soft handkerchief. If after cleaning the lens the high power will 
 not focus, then the material under examination is too thick and must be made 
 thinner. In case of any trouble with the microscope, don't tamper with the 
 instrument, but call the assistant. 
 
 b) If images of buildings, etc., appear in the field, they may be obliterated 
 by using the concave surface of the mirror, or by lowering the condenser. 
 
 c) In working with artificial light, use the concave surface of the mirror. 
 
 d) Round black rings in the field are air bubbles under the cover glass. 
 
 e) If the fine adjustment turns without producing any effect upon the tube, 
 it has come to the upper limit of its range and must be screwed down. If it will 
 not turn at all, it has come to the lower limit of its range and must be screwed up. 
 
 /) Keep the microscope clean and free from dust. Do not let it stand in the 
 sunlight. Do not use sunlight for illumination in looking through the microscope. 
 
 g) Keep both eyes open when looking through the microscope. If you find 
 this difficult, try placing an oblong of stiff paper around the top of the microscope, 
 so that the unused eye will not see objects. 
 
 9. The magnification of the low power is about 50; of the high power, 500. 
 
 KEEP THE LENSES CLEAN 
 
 ADJUST THE LIGHT FOR EVERY OBJECT 
 
 ADJUST THE FOCUS CONTINUALLY WHILE YOU LOOK 
 
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 I. GENERAL SURVEST OF THE FROG .......... i 
 
 A. Killing the Frog x 
 
 B. External Anatomy of the Frog i 
 
 C. The Buccal or Mouth Cavity 4 
 
 D. Body Wall, Coelome, Mesenteries 5 
 
 E. General Internal Structure 8 
 
 II. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY 14 
 
 A. Function of the Nervous System; Irritability, Conductivity .... 14 
 
 B. Function of the Muscular System; Contractility 15 
 
 C. Function of the Digestive System; Digestion, Absorption 16 
 
 D. Function of the Respiratory System; Respiration, Oxidation 18 
 
 E. Function of the Excretory System ; Excretion 19 
 
 F. Function of the Circulatory System; Circulation of the Blood .... 20 
 
 G. Function of the Reproductive System; Reproduction, Development, the 
 Life-Cycle 20 
 
 H. Summary of Physiological Processes .23 
 
 III. GENERAL HISTOLOGY: CELLS AND TISSUES 24 
 
 A. Study of a Typical Cell 25 
 
 B. Studies of Tissues 26 
 
 IV. GENERAL HISTOLOGY: STRUCTURE OF ORGANS 33 
 
 A. Structure of the Liver 33 
 
 B. Structure of the Intestine 33 
 
 C. Structure of the Stomach 35 
 
 D. Structure of the Skin 3$ 
 
 E. Structure of the Kidney 37 
 
 F. Structure of the Spinal Cord 3 8 
 
 V. THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 39 
 
 A. The Digestive System 39 
 
 B. The Urinogenital System 4 
 
 C. The Respiratory System 4* 
 
 D. The Circulatory System: the Venous System 4* 
 
 E. The Circulatory System: the Arterial System 44 
 
 F. The Circulatory System: the Structure of the Heart 45 
 
 G. The Nervous System .46 
 
 H. The Skeleton 5 1 
 
 I. The Muscular System 55 
 
 J. General Anatomical Principles ^i 
 
 VI. THE PROCESS OF CELL DIVISION 
 
 A. Mitosis in the Eggs of Ascaris 
 
 B. Mitosis in Plant Root Tips 4 
 
 C. Mitosis in the Eggs of the Whitefish 
 
 XV 
 
xvi TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 VII. GENERAL EMBRYOLOGY ............. 65 
 
 A. Development of the Starfish . .......... 65 
 
 B. Development of the Frog ............ 66 
 
 VIII. HEREDITY: MENDEL'S LAW ...... ..... 69 
 
 A. First Hybrid Generation .......... . . 69 
 
 B. Second Hybrid Generation ........... 69 
 
 IX. PHYLUM PROTOZOA .... .......... 71 
 
 A. Introductory Remarks ............ 71 
 
 B. The Amoeba .............. 72 
 
 C. Paramecium ............... 73 
 
 D. General Study of Protozoan Cultures ......... 78 
 
 X. PHYLUM COELENTERATA ............. 82 
 
 A. Hydra . ' . ............. 82 
 
 B. A Colonial Coelenterate ............ 86 
 
 C. General Survey of Other Coelenterates ......... 88 
 
 XI. PHYLUM PLATYHET.MTNTHES ............ oo 
 
 A. Planaria ............... 90 
 
 B. General Survey of Other Flat worms ......... 93 
 
 XII. PHYLUM ANNELIDA .............. 95 
 
 A. Preliminary Study of Nereis ........... 95 
 
 B. The Anatomy of the Earthworm ........ 96 
 
 C. General Survey of Annelids ........... 105 
 
 PHYLUM ARTHROPODA .......... . .. . 106 
 
 A. The Anatomy of the Lobster (or Crayfish) ........ 106 
 
 B. The Anatomy of the Grasshopper .......... 117 
 
 C. General Survey of Arthropods ..... ...... 124 
 
 XIV. FINAL EXERCISES ON COMPARATIVE ANATOMY ........ 126 
 
 A. Comparison of Cross-Sections ........... 126 
 
 B. Comparison of Functional Systems .......... 126 
 
 XV. EXERCISE ON CLASSIFICATION ........... 127 
 
 Key to the Phyla of Animals ....... ..... 129 
 
 Key to the Classes of the Principal Phyla ......... 131 
 
 XVI. EXERCISE ON ECOLOGY . ............ 135 
 
 SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LABORATORY ASSISTANTS ......... 139 
 
 INDEX ........... ... 145 
 

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 I. GENERAL SURVEY OF THE FROG 
 
 It is believed that the best introduction to the science of zoology is the 
 thorough study of a single, relatively complex animal. For this reason, we shall 
 first examine in detail the anatomy, the physiology, and the microscopic struc- 
 ture of one of the commonest animals, the frog. After learning how such an 
 animal is constructed and how it employs the structures which it possesses, we 
 shall be in a position to understand the make-up of other animals, and to appre- 
 ciate by what changes and alterations these have been built up from an extremely 
 simple starting-point. 
 
 A. KILLING THE FROG 
 
 The frog may be killed either by placing it for 15 to 20 minutes in a closed 
 vessel with a wad of cotton soaked in ether or chloroform, or by the method of 
 pithing. In pithing, a blunt instrument is thrust through the space between 
 the posterior end of the skull and the beginning of the vertebral column and the 
 nervous system is destroyed. To pith a frog, grasp the animal firmly in the 
 left hand and bend the head down by placing the forefinger across the snout. 
 With the finger or a blunt instrument feel for the depression between the posterior 
 end of the skull and the first vertebra (it is located at about the level of the fore 
 limbs). Cut through the skin at this place with a scissors, and press firmly 
 upon the depression with a blunt instrument until the instrument breaks through 
 the muscles into the cavity of the skull. Then thrust the instrument forward 
 into the brain and then backward into the spinal cord, moving it about so as to 
 mash the nervous system thoroughly. The best instrument for pithing is a 
 stout wire hairpin or a blunted hatpin. If the pithing is properly done, spon- 
 taneous movements cease. 
 
 After either pithing or etherization, it will be noted that many of the activities 
 of the frog continue; the heart keeps on beating for a considerable length of 
 time and movements of various kinds can be elicited by the proper procedure. 
 Is the frog dead? What is meant by death in the higher animals? Do all 
 parts of an animal die at the same time? What part of the frog is really 
 dead? (A.) 
 
 B. EXTERNAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 
 
 Obtain an etherized frog, place it in the dissecting pan, and carefully note the 
 following points. Read also Holmes, chapter iii. The body of the animal con- 
 sists of a flattened head and a short somewhat spindle-shaped trunk. There is 
 
2 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 neither neck nor tail. Head and trunk (also neck and tail when present) con- 
 stitute the axial part of an animal while the limbs are designated as the appendicu- 
 lar part. The head is the anterior end; the opposite region of the body is the 
 posterior end; and the terms "anterior" and "posterior" are also employed to 
 indicate the relative positions of other structures with reference to head or tail, 
 as, for instance, one would say that the fore limbs are anterior to the hind limbs. 
 The back or upper surface is the dorsal side; the lower or under surface, the 
 ventral side; and the regions between these are referred to as lateral. The middle 
 of the dorsal side is the median dorsal line, and that of the ventral side, the 
 median ventral line. A plane passing through these two lines from anterior to 
 posterior end is the median sagittal plane, and divides the animal into right and 
 left halves. If these two halves are identical or nearly so, the animal is said to 
 be bilaterally symmetrical. Is the frog bilaterally symmetrical as far as you can 
 observe from its external anatomy? Is man? There are several other types 
 of symmetry among animals, one of which will be met with later in the course. 
 An imaginary axis in the sagittal plane is the antero-posterior axis or sagittal 
 axis. Any axis in the median plane from the dorsal to the ventral side is a 
 dorsoventral axis; from the median plane to the sides, a medio-lateral axis, etc. 
 
 These terms are applicable to the vast majority of animals, and the structures 
 of animals are arranged with reference to such planes and axes oj symmetry. 
 
 Note differences in color between the dorsal and ventral surfaces, and observe 
 whether the color pattern is the same on all individuals. Read Holmes (p. 3 7) , on 
 the power of frogs to alter their color. 
 
 The head ends hi a triangular snout which incloses the relatively large mouth 
 cavity, and which bears on its anterior extremity two small openings, the nostrils 
 or external nares. These, unlike our own, can be opened and closed by lowering 
 and elevating certain bones of the upper jaw (Holmes, p. 171). Posterior to the 
 nares are the large prominent eyes, in which may be distinguished the golden 
 iris, surrounding a central opening, the pupil. The eye is provided with the 
 following eyelids, as should be determined by lifting each with a forceps: an 
 upper eyelid, a well-developed fold of skin which covers the upper portion of the 
 eyeball; a lower eyelid, semicircular in shape, representing scarcely more than 
 the free edge of the skin; and the nictitating membrane, a thin, transparent, very 
 extensible membrane, which is really an outgrowth of the lower lid. A vestige 
 of the nictitating membrane is present in our own eyes as a small crescent- 
 shaped fold near the inner corners. 
 
 Obtain a living frog, gently touch an eyeball and observe the action of the 
 eyelids. Which eyelids are movable? Stimulate the eyeball more strongly 
 and observe that the whole eye can be dropped down into the mouth cavity. 
 The socket in the skull which holds the eye is designated as the orbit. 
 
 Returning now to the dead specimen, note a circular area of tense skin just 
 posterior to the eye. This is the tympanic membrane or drum membrane of tin* 
 
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE FROG 3 
 
 ear, which covers the cavity of the middle ear. The external ear and the passage 
 leading in from it, prominent in ourselves, are entirely wanting in the frog. Near 
 the center of the drum membrane, a small projection may usually be noticed; 
 this is the end of the columella, a small bone which transmits inwardly the vibra- 
 tions of the tympanic membrane. 
 
 In the median line of the head, slightly anterior to the level of the eyes, 
 a small light-colored spot, the brow spot, may usually be found. In dark indi- 
 viduals, however, it may be concealed by pigment. In the embryonic develop- 
 ment of the frog, this spot is in connection with a portion of the brain, called 
 the pineal body, and it itself is the useless vestige of a former third medially 
 located eye (Holmes, p. 64). 
 
 On the dorsal side of the trunk extending posteriorly from the eyes note two 
 light-colored ridges, where the skin is much thickened owing to the presence of 
 large poison glands underneath. These ridges are called the dorsolateral dermal 
 plicae. At the posterior end of the trunk on the dorsal side between the bases 
 of the hind legs is a small opening, the anus, which is the end of the digestive 
 tract. In the middle of the back a characteristic hump is present, owing to an 
 alteration at this place in the structure of the vertebral column (see a dried 
 skeleton, or consult Holmes, Fig. 63, p. 230). 
 
 The fore limb is short and consists of three divisions, upper arm, forearm, 
 and manus or hand. How many fingers has the hand ? To which of your fingers 
 do these correspond (Holmes, p. 65) ? The rudiment of the missing finger 
 may be felt under the skin on the inner side of the hand at the base of the present 
 first finger, and may be seen on the skeleton of the hand 04). In the male 
 frog, the inner finger is enlarged and swollen at the base, especially during the 
 breeding season. 
 
 The hind limb likewise consists of three parts, thigh, shank, and pes, or foot. 
 The ankle is remarkably elongated. There are five toes and a rudiment of sixth, 
 called the prehallux, may be felt on the inner side of the smallest toe, which cor- 
 responds to our great toe. Such additional fingers occur not infrequently among 
 the vertebrates, but their morphological significance is unknown. 
 
 The skin is smooth, slimy in life, and possesses neither hairs, scales, nor claws. 
 Note that in general it is more loosely attached to the body than in most animals. 
 
 Make an accurate drawing of the frog from the dorsal side, putting in all of 
 the structures and parts which have been mentioned. Before beginning to 
 draw re-read carefully the directions about drawings. Label this and all sub- 
 sequent drawings fully. 
 
 NOTE. At the close of the first laboratory period, make an incision about one- 
 half inch long through the skin only of the left abdominal wall of your frog and 
 place the animal in the jar of preserving fluid which will be assigned to you. 
 The animal must always be kept in this jar when not in use. It must never be 
 left out on the tables, and never allowed to become dry. 
 
4 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 C. THE BUCCAL OR MOUTH CAVITY 
 
 Note that the two jaws fit together very tightly; this is essential for respira- 
 tion, as will be seen later. Open the mouth to its widest extent, cutting the 
 angle of the jaws if necessary (A). Consult Holmes, chapter iv, pp. 68-73. 
 
 1. Roof of the mouth cavity. The edge of the upper jaw is covered by a 
 fold of skin, the upper Up fold. Just within this fold and concealed by it is a 
 semicircular row of teeth, the maxillary teeth, borne upon the edges of the 
 maxillary and premaxillary bones of the skull. It is necessary to grasp the lip 
 fold with a forceps and pull it outward in order to reveal the teeth. Obtain a 
 dried skull, examine the teeth with a hand lens, and note the following points. 
 The teeth are not set into sockets, that is, cavities in the jaw, as are our own teeth, 
 but they are fused by their bases and sides to the margins of the jaw, only their 
 tips projecting freely above the edge of the bone. Each tooth is a hollow cone, 
 consisting of two parts separated by an indistinct groove: an upper part, the 
 crown, composed of dentine, and coated externally with a shiny material, the 
 enamel; and a lower part, the root, composed of cement. The teeth are replaced 
 when lost and two or three sets of new teeth may usually be seen at the bases of 
 the old ones. 
 
 Returning now to your own specimen, locate within the row of maxillary 
 teeth a deep groove, the sulcus marginalis. At the tip of the jaw this groove 
 deepens into a pit, the median subrostral fossa; on each side of this is an eleva- 
 tion, the subrostral puhinar or cushion; and lateral and adjacent to this is another 
 depression, the lateral subrostral fossa. 
 
 Within the sulcus marginalis is the roof of the mouth cavity, properly speak- 
 ing. The anterior extremity of this is occupied by two oval openings, the internal 
 nares or choanae; they are the internal openings of the cavities of the nose, whose 
 external openings were already noted. The two pairs of nares, therefore, with 
 the cavities of the nasal chambers, constitute the respiratory passage through 
 which air is drawn into the buccal cavity. Between the choanae are two patches 
 of wmerine teeth, located upon the wmer bone. The greater part of the roof of 
 the mouth is occupied by two large rounded prominences, where the eyes are 
 located, and, as already observed, the eyes can be withdrawn into the mouth 
 cavity. At each side of the posterior end of the roof is an opening, the entrance 
 to the Eustachian tube (auditory tube in more recent terminology). Where does 
 it lead ? Consult Holmes, p. 69. 
 
 2. Floor of the mouth cavity. The edge of the lower jaw forms a ridge 
 which fits into the sulcus marginalis. At the tip of the lower jaw is an elevation, 
 the prelingual tubercle, and on each side of this a depression, the prelingual fossa. 
 Note how exactly these fit into the elevations and depressions of the upper jaw. 
 Are teeth present on the lower jaw ? The greater part of the floor of the mouth 
 is occupied by the tongue. Note the size, shape, and attachment of this organ, 
 and find out how it is used in catching prey (Holmes, pp. 26, 70-71). Turn the 
 
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE FROG 5 
 
 tongue forward and feel the floor of the mouth behind the tongue. It is stiffened 
 by a cartilaginous plate, the body of the hyoid, whose anterior end is hollowed 
 out to receive the base of the tongue, and gives off a pair of slender curving 
 processes, the anterior horns of the hyoid, which extend posteriorly to the ears. 
 Scrape away the membrane from the floor of the mouth in order to see these 
 structures more clearly. Posterior to the body of the hyoid in the median line 
 is a circular hardened elevation, the laryngeal prominence, which bears in its 
 center an elongated slit, the glottis. Where does the glottis lead ? At the back 
 of the mouth cavity, roof and floor converge to a large opening, the beginning of 
 the esophagus, the first portion of the digestive tract. In the male frog, the 
 slitlike opening of the vocal sac is present on each side of the floor near the edge 
 of the jaw, on a level with the glottis. On the use of the vocal sacs in croaking, 
 see Holmes (p. 167). 
 
 Draw the floor and roof of the mouth. 
 
 D. BODY WALL, COELOME, MESENTERIES 
 
 i. Structure of the body wall (see Holmes, chap, iv, pp. 73-80). Remove 
 the skin slowly from the trunk of the frog, noting carefully at what places the 
 skin is attached to the underlying parts by means of weblike partitions. (While 
 doing this note also the blood vessels to the skin described in the next paragraph, 
 and in the median dorsal line, the sensory nerves passing in pairs from the skin 
 into the vertebral column.) The space under the skin is divided by these parti- 
 tions into compartments, called the subcutaneous lymph spaces, or lymph sacs, 
 which in life are filled with a fluid, the lymph. Compare your observations with 
 Holmes (Fig. 78, p. 281), and read what Holmes says about the lymphatic 
 system. The lymph is similar in composition to and derived from the blood, 
 except that it contains no red blood corpuscles. It is in direct contact with the 
 living substance to which it supplies food and oxygen, and from which it removes 
 waste products. The frog and its relatives differ from other vertebrates in this 
 enormous development of huge lymph spaces, not only under the skin, but also 
 throughout the body. This structural feature is probably associated with the 
 amphibious habits of these animals. 
 
 In removing the skin, note the extensive supply of blood vessels to the skin, 
 and particularly the following two large vessels: the musculo-cutaneous vein, 
 which runs posteriorly in the muscles of the ventro-lateral region of the body 
 wall, and then turns and passes to the skin in the partition between the abdominal 
 and lateral lymph sacs; and the cutaneous artery, which emerges in front of the 
 shoulder and supplies the skin of the dorsal side. This relatively large develop- 
 ment of skin blood vessels is due to the respiratory function of the skin, to be 
 discussed more fully later. 
 
 The removal of the skin exposes the muscles of the body wall and the skeleton 
 which they inclose and to which they are attached. The principal parts of the 
 
6 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 skeleton may be felt imbedded if. the muscles. Identify them as follows with 
 the aid of Holmes (Fig. 63, p. 230). The head contains a bony case, the skull, 
 to which the upper jaw is immovably fused, while the lower jaw is hinged to it 
 by a joint. A bony arch, the pectoral girdle, supports the fore limbs. Feel this 
 on both dorsal and ventral sides at the level of the fore limbs. On the dorsal 
 side, the girdle terminates in a flat thin bone with a cartilaginous border, called 
 the suprascapula. Ventrally, the bones of the girdle, covered by the pectoral 
 muscles, are seen to be articulated to a slender chain of bones and cartilages 
 which occupies the median ventral line and ends anteriorly and posteriorly with 
 conspicuous rounded cartilaginous expansions. This whole structure is called 
 collectively the sternum, or breastbone (see Holmes, Fig. 67, p. 239). The hind 
 limbs are similarly supported by the pelvic girdle. Feel for this on both sides; 
 ventrally it forms a hard crest between the bases of the hind legs; dorsally 
 two of its bones, the ilium bones, extend forward, producing the two conspicuous 
 lateral ridges on the lower half of the back. The median dorsal line is depressed, 
 forming a groove. Pass the point of an instrument along this groove and feel 
 the vertebral column lying underneath, and its lateral expansions, the transverse 
 processes. The last pair of these has enlarged bulbous ends, which are really 
 rudimentary ribs, to which the anterior ends of the ilium bones, mentioned above, 
 are firmly attached. It is this region which produces the external hump in the 
 frog. Posterior to this point, the median line is occupied by a long slender bone, 
 which has been produced by the fusion of a number of vertebrae; it is called 
 the urostyle. 
 
 The lateral and ventral abdominal walls are supported by muscles only, 
 skeleton being absent. There are several layers of these muscles, the external 
 layer consisting of, laterally, the external oblique muscle; ventrally on each side 
 of the median line, the segmented rectus abdominis muscle extending from the 
 pelvic girdle to the sternum; and between these, and partially covering the 
 external oblique, a posterior slip from the pectoral muscles. A flat, thin muscle, 
 the mylohyoid, extends transversely across the ventral side .of the lower jaw. 
 This arrangement of the ventral musculature is very similar to that of all verte- 
 brates, including man. The median ventral line from the pelvic girdle to the 
 posterior expansion of the sternum is occupied by a white strip, the linea alba, 
 under which there runs, in the frog, a conspicuous blood vessel, the anterior 
 abdominal vein. For further details and a picture of the foregoing features, 
 see Holmes (Fig. 70, p. 249). 
 
 Cut through the muscles on the ventral side to the left (frog's left) of the linea 
 alba from a point just in front of the pelvic girdle up to the mylohyoid muscle, 
 cutting through the pectoral girdle. A large cavity, the body cavity, coelome, or 
 pleuroperitoneal cavity, which contains the internal organs, or viscera, is thus 
 exposed. This space is lined by a smooth shining membrane, the pleuroperi- 
 
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 toneum (frequently but less correctly called for brevity peritoneum). It should 
 be recalled that in man the body cavity is divided by means of a muscular parti- 
 tion, the diaphragm, into two completely separated portions, an anterior thoracic 
 cavity and a posterior abdominal cavity. The lining membrane of the former is 
 then called pleura, and that of the latter, peritoneum, in the correct sense. Since, 
 however, in the lower vertebrates, including the frog, a diaphragm has not yet 
 evolved, one continuous coelome, or pleuroperitoneal cavity, is present, and its 
 lining membrane is named the pleuroperitoneum. 
 
 The body wall thus consists of three layers: the skin, the muscles with their 
 contained skeleton, and the coelomic lining, or peritoneum, with the subcutaneous 
 lymph spaces lying between the first two layers. 
 
 2. The peritoneum and mesenteries. The peritoneum not only lines the 
 coelome, but forms a close investment of all the viscera, for which purpose it is 
 frequently pulled away from the body wall as a double-walled membrane. That 
 portion of the peritoneum which adheres to the inside of the body wall is called 
 the parietal peritoneum; that which invests the viscera is the visceral peritoneum, 
 or serosa; and that which extends from the body wall to the individual organs 
 or from one organ to another is a mesentery or ligament. In the formation of a 
 mesentery, the peritoneum leaves the body wall, passes over the surface of the 
 organ, and returns to the body wall at the same point from which it left, produ- 
 cing a double-walled membrane between the organ and the body wall. It is thus 
 evident that the peritoneum is everywhere continuous and unbroken, and that 
 the viscera are really outside of the peritoneum, which forms a closed sac into 
 which the viscera appear to be pushed from without. The condition is not really 
 brought about in this way but by the fact that the peritoneum develops later 
 than the viscera and closes over them after they have formed. The visceral 
 peritoneum is so tightly applied to the surface of the viscera that it cannot be 
 separated from them. 
 
 Extreme caution must be used in examining the following mesenteries, 
 especially those in the region of the heart, so as not to destroy them. 
 
 Note the following mesenteries. Lift up the pectoral girdle cautiously and 
 find beneath it a thin-walled sac, the pericardial sac, which contains the heart. 
 Pick up the pericardial sac gently with a forceps and observe that it is separated 
 from the heart by a space, the pericardial cavity, in which the heart moves freely. 
 The heart is in reality, like the other viscera, inclosed in a double sac; the inner 
 one tightly invests the heart, constituting in fact a serosa, or visceral pericardium; 
 the outer sac as already noted is loose and separated from the heart by the peri- 
 cardial cavity, forming a parietal pericardium. The pericardium is therefore a 
 part of the genera lining of the coelome, and the pericardial cavity is a part of 
 the coelomic cavity, from which, however, it has become completely separated 
 during embryonic development, by the formation of the pericardial sac (parietal 
 pericardium). 
 
8 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 The general pleuroperitoneal membrane in the region of the heart leaves the 
 body wall in the median dorsal line and passes ventrally on each side of the peri- 
 cardial sac and in inseparable contact with it; the two sides then meet ventrally 
 below the heart and form a double membrane which extends vertically from the 
 pericardial sac to the ventral median line under the sternum. This vertical 
 membrane also supports the liver, the large reddish-brown organ around and 
 posterior to the heart, and this part of it is therefore known as the suspensory 
 or falciform ligament of the liver. Follow the suspensory ligament posteriorly 
 along the median ventral line and note that it supports the large anterior 
 abdominal vein which was mentioned in the preceding section. Follow along 
 the median ventral line and at the posterior end of the coelome locate the median 
 ligament of the bladder, a mesentery which attaches the urinary bladder, a thin- 
 walled, often shriveled sac, to the ventral body wall. 
 
 There was originally in the embryo, a complete double-walled mesentery 
 running from the median dorsal line to the median ventral line, and inclosing the 
 viscera between its two walls. The coelome was thus divided into two entirely 
 separated halves. The portion of this mesentery between the digestive tract 
 and the dorsal wall is called the dorsal mesentery, and that from the digestive 
 tract to the ventral wall, the ventral mesentery. The dorsal mesentery, as will 
 be seen shortly, is still intact in the adult frog, but the ventral mesentery has 
 entirely disappeared, except for certain remnants already mentioned the 
 suspensory ligament of the liver, and the ligaments of the bladder, and certain 
 ligaments running from the liver to the intestine, which will be described below. 
 
 Cut through the ventral mesenteries, and pin out the body wall, making 
 crosscuts if necessary so that the viscera will be fully exposed. 
 
 E. GENERAL INTERNAL STRUCTURE 
 
 The frog is made up of a number of definite structures called organs, each of 
 which has a definite function to perform. Ah 1 of the organs which aid in per- 
 forming the same function are grouped together as a system or tract. The organs 
 constituting one system may be all alike or may be different among themselves. 
 In general in a complex animal there are ten systems: skin and its derivatives, 
 skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, reproductive, nervous, 
 and sensory systems. To this list, there should probably be added, in the case 
 of vertebrates, an eleventh, composed of a number of glands, which were originally 
 derived from the other systems, but have lost connection with them and have 
 taken on peculiar but extremely important functions. This group of glands is 
 spoken of collectively as the glands of internal secretion, also as cryptoretic or 
 endocrinous organs. Attention has already been called to the muscular and 
 skeletal systems; the other systems will now be described briefly and will be 
 studied in detail later (Holmes, chap, iv, pp. 73-80). 
 
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE FROG g 
 
 1. Circulatory system. This consists of the heart, the arteries (vessels leaving 
 the heart), the veins (vessels entering the heart), and the capillaries (microscopic 
 vessels between the ends of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins) . Remove 
 the pericardium by cutting it off with a fine scissors, and examine the heart. 
 The chambers of the heart are called ventricle, auricles, sinus venosus, and conus 
 arteriosus. The ventricle is the posterior, thick-walled, conical portion, the 
 point of the cone being designated as the apex of the ventricle, and the base of 
 the cone, the base. The auricles are the two dark-colored, thin-walled sacs 
 anterior to the ventricle. Extending from the right side of the base of the 
 ventricle obliquely forward between the auricles is a tube, the conus arteriosus, 
 which forks into two trunks leading away from the heart (Holmes and most other 
 textbooks erroneously refer to this chamber of the heart as the bulbus arteriosus). 
 To locate the sinus venosus, turn the heart up so that the apex points anteriorly, 
 and, putting the heart on a stretch, identify a small chamber appearing as a 
 dorsal and posterior continuation of the auricles, from which, however, it is 
 separated by a distinct white line. Three veins, dark red tubes, will be seen 
 emerging from the liver to enter the sinus venosus at its posterior border, and 
 each of its sides receives a vein which runs along the margin of the adjacent 
 auricle. Through these large veins all of the venous blood in the body is returned 
 to the sinus venosus which passes it on into the right auricle. Note the mem- 
 brane by which the pericardial sac is attached to the serosa of the liver; this is 
 the coronary ligament of the liver. 
 
 2. Respiratory system. This system consists of the glottis, noted in the 
 study of the floor of the mouth, a pair of lungs, and the larynx, a chamber con- 
 necting the lungs with the glottis. The lungs will be found attached to the 
 anterior wall of the coelome, lateral to the heart. Push the liver and other 
 structures aside in order to see them. Each is closely invested by a sac of 
 peritoneum. The larynx will be studied later. 
 
 3. Digestive system. Its parts are the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, 
 large intestine, and digestive glands. The esophagus lies dorsal to the heart and 
 will be seen more clearly at a later time. It passes into the elongated cylindrical 
 stomach, a conspicuous white organ on the left side of the body dorsal to the 
 liver. (If the animal is a female, the large ovaries, voluminous lobed black and 
 white masses, will obscure the rest of the abdominal viscera, and may be removed, 
 at least on the left side.) From the end of the stomach, trace the small intestine, 
 a coiled tube, to its enlargement into the large intestine. Locate the urinary 
 bladder, a thin-walled, usually shriveled sac at the extreme posterior end of the 
 coelome. The large intestine passes through the bony ring formed by the pelvic 
 girdle, and opens to the exterior through the anus. The entire tube from mouth 
 to anus is the alimentary canal. Associated with the alimentary canal are two 
 digestive glands, the liver, already noted, and the pancreas. The latter is a 
 
io LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 yellowish, very irregular body, lying in the mesentery which extends between 
 the liver, the small intestine, and the stomach. The first part of the small 
 intestine, called the duodenum, will be found to bend abruptly forward 
 toward the liver, and in the mesentery between this bent portion of the 
 small intestine and the stomach is located some yellowish branching material 
 which constitutes the pancreas. Between the lobes of the liver lies the round 
 green gall bladder. 
 
 The following mesenteries should be carefully identified, and each organ 
 picked up with a forceps as you read the description, and its relation to the body 
 wall and other organs noted. The entire alimentary canal is suspended from the 
 median 'dorsal line of the coelome by an extensive mesentery, the dorsal mesentery, 
 in which run the blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc., that supply the digestive 
 system. Pick up the stomach and intestine with a forceps and see how they are 
 attached to the dorsal median line by this mesentery, a very delicate and trans- 
 parent membrane. The part of the mesentery which supports the esophagus 
 is called the meso-esophageum; the stomach, mesogastrium, or mesogaster; the 
 small intestine, mesenterium, or mesentery proper; and the large intestine, 
 mesorectum. The small red body located in the mesorectum is the spleen, an 
 organ associated with the lymphatic system. Pick up the urinary bladder -with 
 a forceps, and find its attachments to the ventral median line by the median 
 ligament of the bladder, already noted; to the large intestine by the rectovesical 
 ligament; and to the lateral body wall on each side by the lateral ligaments of the 
 bladder. The liver is connected to the dorsal wall of the coelome by the dorsal 
 mesentery of the liver or mesohepar; to the pericardial sac by the coronary liga- 
 ment; to the digestive tract mainly by the hepato-gastro-duodenal ligament in 
 which the pancreas is located; and to the ventral wall in the median line by the 
 suspensory ligament, previously noticed and cut. The student will perceive 
 that the ligaments of the bladder, and the suspensory and hepato-gastro-duodenal 
 ligaments are remnants of an originally more extensive ventral mesentery, which 
 connected the alimentary canal and all structures ventral to it to the ventral 
 body wall. 
 
 The mesenteries constitute an ingenious device which permits the viscera 
 to adjust themselves to movements of the body and to carry out their own move- 
 ments freely, and yet at the same time holds them in place with reference to each 
 other and to the body wall. 
 
 4. Reproductive system. This system consists of a pair of reproductive 
 glands, or gonads, in which the sexual elements are produced, and a pair of ducts 
 which convey these elements to the exterior. 
 
 The female gonads, or ovaries, are, in the mature female, the most conspicuous 
 organs in the body. Each is a large, lobed mass composed mainly of numerous 
 black and white eggs, or ova. Each is suspended from the dorsal wall by a 
 
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE FROG n 
 
 mesentery, the mesovarium. Lateral to each ovary is its duct, the oviduct, a 
 conspicuous white, much-coiled tube, also supported by a mesentery, the meso- 
 tubarium. 
 
 The male gonads, or testes, are a pair of small, oval yellow bodies situated 
 close to the dorsal body wall near the median line. The intestine must be pushed 
 away to see them. Each has a short mesentery, the mesorchium. The testes 
 have no ducts but the male reproductive elements pass to the exterior 
 through the ducts of the kidneys, which will be identified in the next section. 
 In our common species of frog, Rana pipiens, the male possesses a vestigial 
 oviduct, a distinct though small white tube running along the lateral border 
 of each testis. 
 
 Attached to the anterior end of each testis, and in a similar position in the 
 female frog, is a fat body, consisting of a tuft of yellow, finger-shaped processes. 
 This organ is a storehouse for nutritive material, and its size varies with the 
 physiological condition of the frog, being very small in the spring and very large 
 in the fall before hibernation begins. 
 
 5. Excretory system. It is composed of a pair of kidneys and their ducts. 
 Turn all of the abdominal viscera to the right, and follow the peritoneum along 
 the left lateral wall of the coelome around to the dorsal side. Note that the 
 peritoneum leaves the body wall dorsally and stretches as a thin membrane 
 across the dorsal side of the body cavity, leaving a large space between itself 
 and the muscles of the dorsal wall. This space is called the subvertebral lymph 
 sinus, or cisterna magna, and, like the subcutaneous lymph spaces, it is a part 
 of the extensive lymphatic system which the frog possesses. Within the cisterna 
 magna, certain structures, including the kidneys, are located. Such structures 
 are said to be retro peritoneal, i.e., they lie behind the peritoneum. Break 
 through the peritoneum which forms the ventral wall of the cisterna magna, and 
 locate in the cavity of the cisterna magna the kidneys, a pair of elongated, flat, 
 red bodies situated close to the peritoneum, which passes across their ventral 
 faces. From the lateral posterior edge of each kidney arises its duct, the ureter, 
 or Wolffian duct, which empties into the large intestine. The ureters not only 
 carry the urine from the kidneys to the exterior, but also transport the male 
 reproductive elements. Owing to this close connection which exists between the 
 excretory and reproductive systems in all vertebrates, the two systems are com- 
 monly referred to as the urinogenital system. The urinary bladder, although 
 functionally a part of the excretory system, is morphologically a saclike out- 
 growth of the ventral wall of the large intestine. 
 
 6. Glands of internal secretion. Under this head are gathered together a 
 number of glandlike bodies which secrete into the blood certain substances of 
 very great physiological importance. The adrenal gland forms a bright yellow 
 stripe on the ventral face of each kidney. The spleen, which may be a gland of 
 
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 internal secretion as well as a lymphatic organ, has already been noted. The 
 pseudothyroids are a pair of small round reddish masses, one on each side a little 
 anterior to the heart, at about the level of the posterior end of the body of the 
 hyoid. A thyroid gland is located directly under each pseudothyroid, much 
 deeper down in contact with the hyoid cartilage (see Holmes, Fig. 60, p. 222). 
 It is generally difficult to identify the thyroid glands with certainty. For the 
 location of other ductless glands of the frog and for a discussion of their functions 
 consult Holmes, chapter xii, p. 219. 
 
 7. Nervous system. The nervous system is divisible into three parts: the 
 central nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord; the peripheral 
 nervous system, consisting of the nerves which pass from the brain (cranial 
 nerves) and from the spinal cord (spinal nerves) to all parts of the body; and 
 the sympathetic system, an outgrowth of the central nervous system, differentiated 
 to control the involuntary activities of the body (as digestive tract, heart, etc.). 
 
 Turn the frog back upward and remove the muscles from the head and 
 median portion of the back. This exposes the skull in the head, and a row of 
 spinelike projections in the median line of the back, which are the neural arches 
 of the vertebrae. Between the posterior end of the skull and the first vertebra 
 is a space. Insert one blade of a fine scissors in this space, keeping the point 
 well up against the bone to avoid punching it into the soft brain underneath, and 
 cut away the roof of the skull. The white-lobed brain lying in a cavity in the 
 skull is thus revealed. Its parts will be studied later. Similarly, cut posteriorly 
 through the arches of the vertebrae, first on one side, then on the other, removing 
 their median portions, piece by piece. The neural arches of the vertebrae are 
 thus seen to inclose a continuous space, the neural canal, in which the spinal cord 
 is situated. 
 
 The cranial nerves cannot be observed at present. The spinal nerves arise 
 in pairs from the spinal cord at regular intervals, one pair emerging between 
 two successive vertebrae. Turn the frog ventral side up and look into the 
 cisterna magna. The stout white cords which appear here closely applied to the 
 muscles of the dorsal body wall are the most posterior spinal nerves. 
 
 The sympathetic nervous system consists mainly of a nervous strand on 
 either side of and ventral to the spinal column. At regular intervals along these 
 strands there occur enlargements, or ganglia, each of which connects by means 
 of a nerve, the ramus communicans, with the adjacent spinal nerve. Have the 
 assistant help you find the sympathetic strands and ganglia in the roof of the 
 cisterna magna, alongside the dorsal aorta. 
 
 8. Sense organs. The principal sense organs, the olfactory sacs, the eyes, 
 and the ears, have already been noted. In addition there are sense organs in the 
 skin, which are sensitive to touch, light, chemicals, and differences of temperature, 
 and taste organs in the lining membrane of the mouth. 
 
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE FROG 13 
 
 Draw a diagrammatic cross-section through the frog at the level of the 
 stomach. This diagram must include the skin, the subcutaneous lymph spaces, 
 the vertebral column and contained spinal cord, the cisterna magna and its 
 contents, the stomach, duodenum, pancreas, tips of the lobes of the liver, repro- 
 ductive organs and their ducts, and the relation of the peritoneum and the mesenteries 
 to these organs. This drawing is to be constructed from the knowledge gained 
 from the foregoing examination of the frog. Holmes, Fig. 12, may be consulted 
 but is not to be copied. 
 
 The general anatomical features and relations expressed in such a diagram 
 are those common to all vertebrates (except the subcutaneous lymph sacs). 
 The general systems of organs are common to all animals except the lowest, 
 although the details vary considerably. 
 
II. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY 
 
 In the preceding section a general survey of the systems of organs which 
 make up the structure or morphology of an animal has been made. We may 
 next logically consider the functions or physiology of these organs, using, as 
 before, the frog merely as an example to illustrate phenomena which are common 
 to all animals. 
 
 A. FUNCTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; IRRITABILITY, CONDUCTIVITY 
 
 Irritability is the capacity of living matter to undergo a change as a con- 
 sequence of changes external or internal to itself. The change in the living 
 organism is known as the reaction or response, and in the case of animals the 
 response generally becomes visible as a movement. The change which produces 
 the response is the stimulus; the act of applying a stimulus to an organism is 
 stimulation. When the response appears at a different point than that to which 
 the stimulus was applied, it is quite obvious that conduction of the stimulus 
 has occurred, and this capacity of living substance to transmit stimuli is known 
 as conductivity. The time which elapses between the application of the stimulus 
 and the visible response is called the reaction time, and is evidently dependent 
 upon conductivity. The nervous system is the irritable and conductile system 
 par excellence of the body. 
 
 Obtain from the assistant a frog pithed in the brain only (why?). Suspend 
 it by a wire through the lower jaw from the crosspieces of the electric lights. 
 Wait until it hangs quietly. Have a pan or dish of tap water handy to keep the 
 frog moist and to wash off the acid in the following experiment. Do not allow 
 the frog to become dry. Dip a very small piece of filter paper, not more than 2 mm. 
 square, into dilute acetic acid and stick it to the skin of the abdomen of the frog. 
 Response? Determine with a watch the approximate reaction time. Wash 
 off the acid with water and repeat in various ways, putting the acid on the toes, 
 skin of the hind legs, back, etc. Which part of the body is the most sensitive, 
 as determined by the reaction time? When are the fore legs used? Does the 
 reaction appear to be intelligent ? Under the conditions of the experiment can 
 it be so? Read Holmes, pp. 300-2. Such a reaction is called a reflex, and this 
 particular one is known as the "wiping reflex." The complete path involved in 
 such a reflex can be understood only after a more detailed study of the nervous 
 system. The steps involved are: stimulation of the sense organs in the skin 
 by the acid; conduction of the stimulation along the spinal nerves leading from 
 these sense organs to the spinal cord; conduction in the spinal cord to a level 
 
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 where the nerves to the muscles of the hind legs originate; an impulse from this 
 level of the cord along the nerves in question to the particular muscles needed , 
 contraction of these muscles producing movements of the hind legs. 
 
 In this and all subsequent experiments, make careful observations and take- 
 notes on what happens and write up the experiment later in your notebook, 
 according to the plan suggested in the introduction. 
 
 B. FUNCTION OF THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM; CONTRACTILITY 
 
 Contractility is the capacity of living matter to shorten itself. It is probable 
 that all kinds of movements in animals are due to this property, which is par- 
 ticularly specialized in the muscles. 
 
 1. Contractility of voluntary muscle (muscle under control of the will). 
 Remove the hook from the frog's jaw and now pith the spinal cord (4). Lay 
 the frog back upward, make a circular incision through the skin completely 
 around the base of the thigh, and grasping the cut edge of the skin, completely 
 strip the skin from the hind leg. On the dorsal side of the thigh, three muscles 
 will be seen: laterally, the glutaeus magnus; medially, the semimembranosus; 
 and between them the small slender ileo-fibularis. On the back of the shank is 
 a large spindle-shaped muscle, the gastrocnemius. Carefully separate the ileo- 
 fibularis from the semimembranosus and locate between them the sciatic nerve, 
 appearing as a stout, white cord running alongside of a dark-colored blood vessel. 
 Carefully isolate the nerve from the blood vessel, handling it with the utmost 
 care. Lift it up and while watching the gastrocnemius muscle cut through the 
 nerve. What happens? What is the stimulus? How does the stimulus get 
 to the muscle? How does the reaction time compare with that in the preceding 
 experiment? Why? The experiment may be repeated as many times as desired 
 by again cutting the nerve between the first cut and the muscle. Satisfy your- 
 self that hi the motion the muscle actually becomes shorter and thicker, and that 
 this change in its shape is the cause of the movement. 
 
 2. Contractility of involuntary muscle (muscle not under control of the will, 
 found mainly in the walls of the digestive tract). Turn the frog ventral side 
 upward and cut through the ventral body wall to the left of the median line from 
 the pelvic girdle up through the pectoral girdle. Gently pull the stomach out 
 so that it will be clearly exposed and with a forceps pinch the wall of the stomach. 
 Wait for the response. How does the reaction time compare with that of volun- 
 tary muscle ? Watch the contraction travel. In which direction does it go ? 
 This kind of contraction is called peristalsis. What is its purpose? 
 
 3. Contractility of heart muscle. Free the heart carefully from the peri- 
 cardial sac and observe that the beating of the heart is nothing but a rhythmical 
 contraction of its muscular walls. In what order do the parts of the heart beat ? 
 Observe changes in color, form, and size of the auricles and ventricle during 
 
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 contraction. Turn the heart with the apex forward so that the sinus venosus 
 can be seen. Does the sinus beat? What time relation does its beat bear to 
 that of the auricles and ventricle? 
 
 Count and record the number of heart beats per minute. Then cool the 
 heart by placing small pieces of ice around it, and after it has become thoroughly 
 chilled again count the rate of the heart beats. This illustrates in a striking way 
 the effect of change of temperature on the activities of living matter. 
 
 4. Ciliary motion. Open the mouth of the frog, swab it out with water, and 
 if necessary cut the angle of the jaws to keep it open. Lay the frog ventral 
 side up and sprinkle a little powdered carmine or place small bits of cork on the 
 posterior part of the roof of the mouth. Observe that the particles travel as 
 if carried on a current. (If the experiment fails it is because the frog has been 
 pithed too long, and a fresh frog may be necessary.) The current is due to a 
 multitude of microscopic hairlike processes, called cilia, which cover the roof 
 of the mouth, and by their co-ordinated beating produce a current of mucus 
 which is sufficiently strong to carry fairly large particles. Prove that the particles 
 will be transported against the force of gravity by repeating the experiment with 
 the head of the frog tilted at an angle, so that the particles must be carried uphill. 
 In which direction does the ciliary current run and what is its purpose? While 
 the causes of ciliary motion are not at all understood, it is probable that like 
 muscular movement it is a form of contractility. 
 
 5. Amoeboid movement. In this type of movement, which is limited tc 
 very small or microscopic masses of living matter, locomotion is accomplished 
 by the flowing out of portions of living substance into processes. The remainder 
 of the substance then flows into the processes, new processes are put out, and a 
 slow change of position is thus effected. Amoeboid movement is probably the 
 most simple form of contractility, but an adequate analysis of its causes has not 
 yet been made. 
 
 Amoeboid movement is illustrated in the frog in the black chromatophores 
 or color bodies of the skin, and in the white blood corpuscles, both of which objects 
 will be seen later. For the present see Holmes (Fig. 49, p. 189, and Fig. 71, 
 p. 259), as neither of them is very favorable for the study of this kind of move- 
 ment. Amoeboid movement will be studied in the amoeba, the animal from 
 which the movement takes its name. 
 
 C. FUNCTION OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIGESTION, ABSORPTION 
 
 The food of animals in general consists of water, salts, and organic substances, 
 these latter being divided into three classes, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. 
 Examples of proteins are meat, white of egg, curdle of milk, blood clot; sugars 
 and starches are carbohydrates; butter, fat of meat, cream, are examples of fats. 
 While the water and salts pass into the substance of the animal without alter a- 
 
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 tion, the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are too complex to be absorbed and 
 used by the animal, and must be broken down into simpler substances before 
 they can be utilized. The splitting of these organic foods into simpler, utilizable 
 substances is the process of digestion, and the performance of this process is the 
 function of the alimentary tract and its glands. Digestion is brought about 
 by means of certain substances, called enzymes, which are manufactured in the 
 walls of the alimentary tract and in the digestive glands, chiefly the pancreas. 
 By means of these enzymes, organisms are able to produce chemical changes in 
 foods which cannot be imitated in the laboratory at all or which can be imitated 
 only by the use of boiling temperatures and reagents which would be fatal to 
 life. Neither the chemical nature of enzymes nor the mode of their action is 
 known, but it is probable that they attach themselves either physically or 
 chemically to the molecules of the substance upon which they act, thus upsetting 
 the equilibrium within the molecule, and causing it to fall into fragments, 
 whereupon the enzyme is set free again unchanged. In general each enzyme 
 is capable of acting upon only one substance or class of substances. Thus, 
 enzymes which split up proteins are called proteases; those which split starches 
 and sugars are diastases; and those which split fats are Upases (see Holmes, 
 chap, vii, pp. i34~3 8 > *42, 156, 163). 
 
 In the following experiments, the action of each of these three general kinds 
 of enzymes is demonstrated. As it is rather impractical to obtain enzymes from 
 the frog, human and pig enzymes having the same action are used instead. 
 
 1. Action of a protease pepsin. 
 
 a) The gastric juice: This digestive fluid is secreted by glands located in the 
 wall of the stomach. It contains about o . 4 per cent hydrochloric acid, an enzyme 
 called pepsin, and a number of salts. An "artificial" gastric juice is readily 
 made by adding 0.4 per cent hydrochloric acid to commercial dried pepsin, gen- 
 erally obtained from the hog's stomach. 
 
 b) Action of pepsin: Into a test tube put 5-10 c.c. of artificial gastric juice, 
 and into another 5-10 c.c. of o . 4 per cent hydrochloric acid. Add to each a small 
 quantity of boiled white of egg, cut into very small pieces. Place in a water bath 
 or incubator kept at 37 C. (why?) for at least two hours. What becomes of the 
 protein? Is the acid alone without the pepsin capable of producing this effect? 
 Pepsin from the frog's stomach has the same action (Holmes, p. 142). 
 
 2. Action of a lipase pancreatic lipase. 
 
 a) Reaction of milk : To 10 c.c. of milk in a test tube add a few drops of neutral 
 litmus solution, or test with red and blue litmus paper. Litmus is a vegetable 
 dye, which is pink in acid solution, blue in alkaline solution, and purplish in 
 neutral solution. Is milk acid, alkaline, or neutral? 
 
 b) Action of pancreatic lipase: A solution of this enzyme is obtained by 
 dissolving dried pancreas, sold commercially as pancreatin, in a slightly alkaline 
 solution. Add a few cubic centimeters of this solution to the litmus-containing 
 
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 milk prepared in (a). What color is the mixture? Keep in the water bath at 
 37 C., and observe from time to time. Does the color change? What does this 
 indicate? The action is of course upon the cream (fat) of the milk (Holmes, 
 p. 151). (R, L, A.) A similar lipase is secreted by the pancreas of the frog. 
 
 3. Action of a diastase ptyalin. 
 
 a) Test for starch: Place a few cubic centimeters of a i per cent starch paste 
 in a test tube and add a drop or two of iodine solution. A deep blue color results, 
 which proves the presence of starch. The nature of this blue compound which 
 iodine forms with starch is unknown. 
 
 b) Test for sugar: Place a few cubic centimeters of glucose (fruit sugar) solu- 
 tion in a test tube, add a few drops of Fehling's solution, and heat to boiling. A 
 yellow, greenish, or red precipitate proves the presence of sugar. 
 
 c) Test the starch paste with Fehling's solution. Is any sugar present in it? 
 
 d) Test some saliva, spit out from your mouth, with Fehling's solution. Does 
 it contain any sugar? 
 
 e) Action of saliva: Put about 5 c.c. of the starch paste in a test tube, and 
 spit some saliva from the mouth into it. Shake up thoroughly and place in the 
 water bath at 37 C. for several minutes. Remove and test with Fehling's solu- 
 tion. Is sugar present? Where did it come from? The enzyme in the saliva 
 which has this action is called ptyalin (from a Greek word meaning "spit"). An 
 enzyme having a similar action is secreted by the pancreas of the frog (the mouth 
 secretions of the frog have no digestive action). 
 
 Explain fully in your notebook the action of these enzymes. State your 
 observations and interpret them. Consult Holmes, pp. 136-37, 142, 151. A 
 general textbook of physiology, obtainable in the library, will also be helpful. 
 
 4. Absorption. This is the process by means of which the products of diges- 
 tion are transferred through the wall of the intestine into the blood and lymph 
 vessels for transport to all parts of the body. The process is impractical of 
 demonstration in the frog. 
 
 D. FUNCTION OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATION, OXIDATION 
 
 When any organic material burns, it uses up oxygen from the air and gives off 
 carbon dioxide. In exactly the same way living substance burns either itself 
 or the materials which it obtains from digestion, using up oxygen and releasing 
 carbon dioxide. All of the processes involved in this burning are called collec- 
 tively respiration. 
 
 i. External respiration in the frog. The process and mechanisms involved 
 in getting the oxygen of the air into the body and throwing out the carbon dioxide 
 constitute external respiration. Obtain a live frog, place it in a covered dish 
 with a small amount of water, and after it has become quiet study the respiratory 
 movements. These consist of the opening and closure of the external nares, 
 
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 rise and fall of the floor of the buccal cavity, and contraction and expansion of 
 the sides of the body. Time the rate of each of the movements. Can you discover 
 any correlation between any of these movements? Does the frog respire in the 
 same manner as the human (R, L, A)? Read Holmes, pp. 168-177, understand 
 thoroughly the mechanism of respiration in the frog and write an account of it 
 in your notebook. 
 
 2. Respiratory activity of the skin. Demonstration experiment. Three 
 jars, each containing a frog, are placed in a trough of running water, so that the 
 temperature of all is the same. One is filled with running water, the second with 
 standing water, so that all bubbles of air are entirely excluded, and the third has 
 an inch or two of water in the bottom. Do the frogs immersed in water show 
 respiratory movements? How do they get oxygen? What is the condition of 
 the three frogs after two or three days? Explain fully in your notebook. 
 
 3. Carbon dioxide output. The following simple experiment demonstrates 
 that carbon dioxide is given off from the lungs. (This need not be performed by 
 those familiar with it.) A bottle is furnished containing two or three inches of 
 lime water or saturated solution of barium hydroxide, and provided with two 
 tubes, one of which extends below the lime water while the other does not. First 
 draw atmospheric air through the lime water by sucking on the shorter tube. 
 Does atmospheric air contain enough carbon dioxide to produce a precipitate 
 with lime water? Then blow air from the lungs into the longer tube. What 
 happens? Explain fully (A). 
 
 4. Internal respiration or oxidation. The respiratory movements considered 
 in sections i and 2 are merely methods for getting the oxygen into the body and 
 into the blood. The actual use of the oxygen by the living substance of the 
 animal is the real process of respiration. To avoid confusion, this process is 
 designated as internal respiration, or oxidation. 
 
 E. FUNCTION OF THE EXCRETORY SYSTEM; EXCRETION 
 
 Every part of the organism as the result of its activities gives off waste 
 matters. Those derived from the oxidation of fats and carbohydrates are mainly 
 carbon dioxide and water, which are cast off through the lungs and skin. Those 
 derived from the oxidation of proteins, or other chemical splittings of proteins, 
 contain nitrogen, and these nitrogenous wastes are taken from the blood and 
 lymph by the kidneys and eliminated from the body. This function of the 
 kidneys is called excretion. The student should note that excretion is an active 
 process, which is concerned with the elimination of soluble materials which have 
 once been a part of the body; therefore the purely passive ejection of undigestible 
 materials from the intestine is NOT excretion, and should not be confused with that 
 process, as students are prone to do. Such undigested food in the intestine is 
 designated as feces, and its passage from the body is the process of defecation 
 or egestion. 
 
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 F. FUNCTION OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM; CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD 
 
 The food prepared in the digestive tract and the oxygen taken in through 
 the lungs must be carried to all parts of the body; and the waste materials from 
 these parts conveyed to the kidneys and lungs. Such transport of materials is 
 the function of the circulatory system. 
 
 Demonstration of the circulation of the blood. In the web of the frog's 
 hind foot, spread out under the microscope, observe the following: 
 
 1. The network of tubes, the blood vessels, in which the blood flows. 
 
 2. The composition of the blood. It consists of solid bodies, the corpuscles, 
 which may be seen shooting along the vessels, and the colorless fluid, the plasma, 
 in which they are suspended. 
 
 3. The arteries, vessels in which the blood flows from the larger vessels into 
 their smaller branches. 
 
 4. The veins, vessels in which the blood flows from the smaller into the 
 larger vessels. 
 
 5. The capillaries, the smallest vessels, forming a network, in which the 
 direction of flow is indefinite. 
 
 6. The pulse, rhythmic jerks in the blood stream, due to the heart beats, 
 observable only in the arteries. 
 
 7. The chromatophores, the small black bodies in the skin. They may 
 exhibit various shapes. In the contracted state, they are round black masses; 
 in the expanded state, they show long, delicate, spidery processes. 
 
 G. FUNCTION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM; REPRODUCTION, 
 DEVELOPMENT, THE LIFE-CYCLE 
 
 The ovaries produce the female elements, which are called eggs or ova, and 
 the testes produce the male elements, which are called spermatozoa. Before the 
 egg can develop it must unite with a single spermatozoon, a process known as 
 fertilization. The fertilized egg then undergoes a process of development which 
 results in the production of an individual like the one from which the egg arose. 
 The complete history from one individual to the next is called ontogeny, or the 
 life-cycle. As the life-cycle of the frog occupies too great a period of time for 
 its completion, the life-cycle of an insect will be studied instead. For this pur- 
 pose either the small fruit fly (Drosophila) or the common blowfly may be used. 
 The latter is preferable owing to its larger size but is available only during the 
 warm months. If Drosophila is to be used, each table will be given a bottle 
 containing a pair of fruit flies and a piece of banana as food. If blowflies are 
 to be used, a bottle will be provided containing two or three inches of moist sand; 
 put a piece of liver in it and set it near an open window. Watch the gathering 
 of flies about the bottle and observe, if you have time, the laying of eggs upon the 
 liver by the female flies. Then stopper the bottle with a wad of cotton. 
 
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 1. The flies. Obtain a Drosophila killed by ether and note its character- 
 istic insect structure; the division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, 
 the characteristic rings or segments of which the abdomen is formed, the large 
 eyes, three pairs of legs, and single pair of wings (most insects have two pairs of 
 wings, but flies are characterized by one pair). Learn to distinguish male and 
 female fruit flies (A). The males have slender rounded abdomens with a black 
 area in the middle of the tip of the ventral side; the females have broader, more 
 pointed abdomens, and the black markings are at the sides of the ventral surface 
 of the abdomen. In male blowflies, the large eyes nearly meet in front while 
 in the females there is a considerable distance between them. (If the experiment 
 on heredity is to be performed, the two fruit flies given you will differ from each 
 other in some striking way.) 
 
 2. The eggs. Note and record the date on which the eggs are first observed. 
 They are oval white objects, minute in the case of the fruit fly, much larger in 
 the blowfly. Remove one and study under the low power of the microscope. 
 Read carefully the directions regarding the use of the microscope, and consult 
 the assistant on any points that you do not understand. The egg of the fruit 
 fly has hexagonal sculpturings upon the surface which are said to be the impres- 
 sions of the walls of the oviducts, and is provided with two oarlike processes 
 which prevent the egg from sinking into the soft banana pulp, a circumstance 
 which would probably be fatal to the larva when it emerges. The egg of the 
 blow fly is marked similarly but less conspicuously with hexagons, has a concave 
 surface which is the future dorsal side, and a convex surface which is ventral. 
 Draw an egg of either fly. 
 
 3. The larvae. Note and record the date on which the moving, wormlike 
 larvae are first noticed. The larva develops inside the eggshell, and hatches 
 forth rather suddenly by rupture of this shell. Remove a larva to a slide, 
 anaesthetize with ether with the aid of the assistant, cover with a cover glass, 
 and study under the low power of the microscope. Compare its structure with 
 that of the parent fly. Is it more simple? Does it have head, eyes, wings, legs? 
 Is the body divided into regions? Is the segmentation, or ringing of the body, 
 more marked than in the parent? What animals do you know that are similarly 
 ringed along their entire bodies? The significance of these facts may not yet 
 be clear to the student, but they illustrate one of the most fundamental and 
 general laws of development, that every organism in its development passed 
 through stages simpler than itself, and stages that resemble animals lower in 
 the scale of animal life than itself. 
 
 , The most striking structure observable in the larva are the tracheal tubes, 
 consisting of a pair of longitudinal trunks running the length of the body, ending 
 posteriorly in a pair of large openings, anteriorly in a pair of smaller ones, and 
 sending off extensive branches throughout the body. These tubes are full of 
 air which enters them through the openings, called spiracles, and through their 
 
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 minute branches is conveyed to all parts of the body. The respiratory system 
 of air tubes is found only in insects and their near relatives and differs from that 
 of other animals where the oxygen is carried by the blood. The anterior pro- 
 trusible end of the larva is a very imperfect head, with a mouth leading into a 
 pharynx which is provided with hard, black, curiously shaped jaws. These can 
 readily be seen with the naked eye in the living larva and their action in taking 
 in the soft food should be noted. Each segment of the larva is encircled with 
 a ring of many small pointed teeth used to prevent slipping. The body of the 
 larva is filled mainly by the digestive tract, which is much coiled and folded, and 
 by the yellowish fat bodies, in which the excessive food taken in by the larva is 
 stored up to be used for the next stage in development. In the blowfly larvae, 
 especially when they have become pretty large, there may be seen with the 
 naked eye a sac, the food reservoir, an outgrowth of the esophagus, filled with 
 the reddish liver which has been devoured. Make a drawing of the larva. 
 
 Note the remarkably rapid increase in size, or growth, of the larva. In growth 
 the non-living food is transformed into the living substance of the organism 
 (process of assimilation). What use do the blowfly larvae make of the sand? 
 Which side of the meat do they frequent and why? 
 
 4. The pupae. Record the date on which the motionless brown pupae are 
 first observed. The larvae, when fully grown, cease to feed, become motionless, 
 and shrink, leaving their skins to form the brown pupal cases. Within this case, 
 the adult fly develops from certain rudiments present in the larva, while most 
 of the larval structure disintegrates and serves as food material for the developing 
 adult. As time passes observe the adult structures appearing within the pupal 
 case, the most conspicuous being the eyes and wings. Remove a pupa, examine 
 under the low power and sketch. Is it segmented? In Drosophila the two 
 prominent processes at the anterior end and the less conspicuous ones at the 
 posterior end are the same spiracular openings noticed in the larva, and serve 
 to admit air to the tracheal system. The pupa of the blowfly has no such 
 projections, but the posterior end has a number of short spines of no evident 
 function. 
 
 5. The adults (imagines). Record the date on which adult flies are first 
 noted. Observe that the pupal case is ruptured and left behind by the fly. 
 How many days were required for the entire life-cycle? Would the time be the 
 same for all periods of the year? How many flies were produced? Proportion 
 of males and females? If all the offspring lived to produce at the same rate, 
 how many would there be at the end of three months? What factors in nature 
 prevent this enormous increase in numbers? 
 
 The life-cycle of a fly is a typical insect life-cycle. A sudden transformation 
 in life-cycle, such as that from the larva to the adult, is called a metamorphosis. 
 The transformation of the tadpole (polliwog) into the frog is another example of 
 metamorphosis. On the other hand, many animals have no such sudden meta- 
 
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 morphoses in their life-histories, but the development is slow and gradual. From 
 what you have learned in this experiment, do you think that flies grow? Are 
 small flies the young of larger flies? 
 
 H. SUMMARY OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES 
 
 1. Food prepared in the digestive tract by the action of enzymes is absorbed 
 through the walls of the intestine into the circulatory system. 
 
 2. Oxygen drawn into the lungs through the mechanical arrangement of the 
 respiratory system passes through the walls of the lungs or through the skin into 
 the circulatory system. 
 
 3. The circulatory system transports food and oxygen to all parts. 
 
 4. The living substance of the body withdraws the food and oxygen from the 
 lymph and blood, and uses them: 
 
 a) For the formation of new chemical compounds or of new living substance 
 (process of assimilation), thus accomplishing growth. 
 
 b) For the production of energy, by burning the food material with the aid 
 of the oxygen (process of oxidation). The living substance itself may also be 
 burned and produce energy. 
 
 5. The waste products resulting from the oxidation are excreted into the 
 blood which carries them to the lungs, skin, and kidneys, where they are thrown 
 out from the body. The lungs excrete mainly carbon dioxide and water; the 
 skin, carbon dioxide, water, and dissolved waste matters; and the kidneys, 
 dissolved nitrogenous waste materials. 
 
 6. The combined processes of assimilation, oxidation (or other energy- 
 producing changes), and excretion are spoken of together as metabolism. Metab- 
 olism may be defined as the sum of those chemical changes taking place in 
 protoplasm which result in the production of new compounds, new protoplasm, 
 or of energy. 
 
 7. The energy produced in the metabolic processes is utilized to carry on 
 the activities of the body, for the contraction of muscles, conduction of nerve 
 impulses, secretion of digestive fluids, etc. 
 
m. GENERAL HISTOLOGY: CELLS AND TISSUES 
 
 The protoplasm of which living bodies are composed does not exist as a con- 
 tinuous mass, but is divided up into minute portions, each of which is called a 
 cell. A cell is defined as a small mass of protoplasm, containing a differentiated 
 body, the nucleus. All organisms are either composed of a number of cells or 
 consist of a single cell. That branch of biology which devotes itself to the 
 detailed study of the different kinds of cells which occur in living things is called 
 histology ', and that part of histology which is concerned with the structure of the 
 protoplasm hi different kinds of cells is sometimes distinguished as cytology. 
 
 As most cells are of minute size, the microscope is necessary for their study. 
 Read carefully the sheet of instructions regarding the use of the microscope, 
 and consult the assistants on any points which you do not understand. Do not 
 fail to heed the directions regarding adjustment of the light and use of the adjust- 
 ment screws. Set up your microscope ready for use, take from your box of 
 slides the slide labeled "Necturus liver," and practice with this slide until you 
 are familiar with the method of operation of the instrument. 
 
 NOTE. -As students frequently exhibit curiosity about the preparation of 
 microscopic slides, such as are to be used in this section of the work, a word 
 about this process may be introduced here. The piece of material of which 
 slides are desired is removed from a freshly killed animal, placed in a fluid which 
 Hlls it and preserves it in a nearly natural condition, hardened and dehydrated 
 in alcohols of increasing concentration, and imbedded in some substance such 
 as paraffin, which can be obtained in both liquid and solid condition. The 
 paraffin containing the object is then hardened in a cold medium, cut into a 
 rectangular shape and mounted on a machine called a microtome. In the 
 microtome the paraffin block is moved up and down by means of an automatic 
 micrometer screw across a very sharp knife edge, which slices off exceedingly 
 thin sections of the material which is imbedded in the paraffin. Each such slice 
 is called a section, and when these sections are mounted on the slide in the order 
 in which they are cut, they are called serial sections. While such sections may 
 be cut as thin as nnnr of a millimeter, they are generally about y-J-g- of a milli- 
 meter. After the sections are mounted on the slide in such a way that they 
 stick tightly, the paraffin is dissolved, and the piece of material is then stained 
 (in order to make the structures clearer) by dyes which are similar to those used 
 in dyeing cloth. Finally the sections are covered with a cover glass with the 
 aid of some medium which cannot dry up. 
 
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 The student will now understand that owing to the numerous processes and 
 chemical agents to which the material is subjected in the making of a slide, 
 artificial and abnormal appearances are frequently produced. Further, a differ- 
 ence in the angle at which the material is sliced will make two slides of the same 
 material present a different appearance. In studying slides, the student must 
 always bear these points in mind, and should direct his attention only to those 
 portions of the sections which are pronounced by the assistant to be typical and 
 normal, and illustrative of the structures under consideration. 
 
 A. STUDY OF A TYPICAL CELL 
 
 i. Liver cells of Necturus. (Necturus is an amphibian, a relative of the 
 frog, and often chosen for microscopic preparations because its cells are much 
 larger than those of the frog.) Examine with the low power the slide marked 
 " Necturus liver" and note that the liver is composed of polygonal blocks. Each 
 of the blocks is a cell, and we thus see that the liver is made up of such cells. 
 Inspection of all parts of the animal would show that they, too, are similarly 
 constructed. 
 
 Turn on the high power and examine the structure of a liver cell in detail 
 (Hegner, pp. 26-29). Note: 
 
 a) The cell wall, or cell membrane, the delicate partition which separates each 
 cell from its neighbors. In many cases, the cell walls may not be as distinct 
 as they are here. 
 
 b) The nucleus, the spherical deeply stained body in the center of the cell. 
 A membrane, the nuclear membrane, separates the nucleus from the surrounding 
 cytoplasm. Within the nucleus the solid material takes the form of a network, 
 the linin network, not very distinct here, on the fibers of which are strung the 
 conspicuous, deeply stained irregular masses, the chromatin granules. This 
 chromatin is a substance characteristic of and found with few exceptions only 
 in the nucleus, and is recognizable by its staining properties. The meshes of 
 the linin network are filled with a clear, transparent, invisible fluid, called the 
 nuclear sap, the nucleoplasm, or karyolymph. 
 
 c) The cytoplasm, the portion of the protoplasm outside of the nucleus. It 
 consists of a mixture of solid and somewhat fluid materials; the fluid portion is 
 transparent and is known as the ground substance, or cell sap, or hyaloplasm. The 
 solid material in these liver cells is apt to appear as a network, the apparent 
 fibers of which are really rows of granules. This network in the cytoplasm is 
 called the spongioplasm, and was formerly thought to represent the real structure 
 of the cytoplasm; but it is now believed to be due to the action of killing fluids 
 upon the protoplasm. Besides the spongioplasmic network, the cytoplasm 
 frequently contains granules, droplets, fibers, etc. 
 Draw a cell under high power, showing all details. 
 
26 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 2. Eggs of the sea urchin. The eggs or ova of all animals are single cells. 
 Examine with the low power the slide marked " Arbacia mitosis" and note on 
 it the sections of the eggs of the sea urchin (Arbacia). With the aid of the assist- 
 ant find an unfertilized egg, recognized by its large, clear nucleus. Examine 
 under the high power. Note the very large nucleus, containing an unusually 
 large amount of nuclear sap, the chromatin granules in the nucleus, the large 
 black spot in the nucleus, called the nucleolus, or plasmosome; the delicate nuclear 
 membrane, and the cytoplasm packed with granules. The small black bodies 
 clinging to the periphery of the egg are the male elements, or spermatozoa, each 
 of which is also a single cell. 
 
 Draw, showing all details. The granular appearance is best imitated by 
 stippling with the point of the pencil. 
 
 B. STUDIES OF TISSUES 
 
 The preceding study has been made on cells which are generalized in structure, 
 that is to say, cells which are like those found in very simple animals and which 
 have not become specialized for the performance of particular functions. In an 
 adult organism so complex as the frog, however, there are very few cells which 
 retain this elementary structure, but most of them depart from the type plan 
 to a greater or less degree, depending upon the kind of function which they are 
 called upon to perform. Moreover, for the better performance of these functions, 
 the cells become united into orderly arrangements of layers or groups, and these 
 associations of cells are held together and aided in the performance of their func- 
 tions by certain materials, which they themselves secrete and which are called 
 intercellular substances. Such an association of a number of cells of a particular 
 kind with their particular kind of intercellular substance is called a tissue. We 
 shall now study the various kinds of tissues (Holmes, chap, vi, pp. 121-33). 
 
 NOTE. In these studies of tissues, it is absolutely essential that the student 
 observe the following directions: (i) All material must be mounted in liquid, 
 either water (if dead) or physiological salt solution (if living). It is absolutely 
 useless to attempt to study dry material. The amount of liquid added should 
 be just sufficient to come to the edge of the cover glass. (2) All material must 
 be spread out as thin as possible, or picked into minute pieces with a pair of 
 teasing needles. It is absolutely useless and a waste of time to try to study 
 thick material. (3) After having made the material as fine as possible, put a 
 cover glass on, lowering it from one edge to avoid air bubbles. Excess fluid 
 should be absorbed. The cover glass should not float around on the material. 
 (4) Study the tissue first with the low power and without staining; then with the 
 high power. Draw what you can see in the unstained material. (5) Then 
 stain, if the directions say so, and add what you can see after staining to the 
 
GENERAL HISTOLOGY: CELLS AND TISSUES 27 
 
 X 
 
 drawing already made. Use a small amount of the stain and wait patiently 
 for it to take effect. Much better results will be obtained than by piling on a 
 lot of stain in an attempt to hurry matters. To stain, place a drop of the stain 
 in contact with one edge of the cover glass, and draw it under by applying a 
 piece of filter paper to the opposite edge of the cover glass. (6) If what you 
 see in your preparation does not correspond with the description in the outline, 
 then you should promptly conclude that you are looking at the wrong thing and 
 should seek the assistance of the laboratory instructor. The descriptions in 
 the outline have been made as accurate as possible. (7) Draw only a few cells, 
 making your drawings large and detailed, putting in every structure that you 
 can see. 
 
 i. Epithelial tissues. This kind of tissue covers or lines all the free surfaces 
 of the body, and is further distinguished by the relatively unspecialized char- 
 acter of its cells, which are similar in structure and appearance to the "typical" 
 cells already described, and by the almost complete absence of intercellular 
 substance. The cells are united into continuous sheets by a cement substance, 
 which is difficult to demonstrate. There are several kinds of epithelia (Holmes, 
 pp. 121-22). 
 
 a) Squamous epithelium: Obtain a small piece of shed epidermis (outer layer 
 of the skin) of the frog, spread it out on a slide in a drop of water, cover with a 
 cover glass, and examine with the low power. Turn down the light. Note the 
 polygonal cells of which it is composed, giving a characteristic mosaic appear- 
 ance; these cells are found to be very thin and flat when viewed from the side. 
 Study a cell with the high power, note the nucleus and (in some cases) the pig- 
 ment granules in the cytoplasm. If the nucleus is not clearly 'visible, stain with 
 a drop of aceto-carmine. (See general directions for method of staining.) By 
 changing the focus of the microscope determine whether the epidermis is one 
 or more layers of cells thick. Draw, showing a few of the cells. 
 
 b) Columnar epithelium: In contrast to the preceding, this type of epithelium 
 is characterized by the tall and slender shape of its cells. Obtain a small piece 
 of the inner lining of the small intestine which has been macerated for twenty- 
 four hours in 5 per cent chloral hydrate, add a few drops of salt solution, tear it 
 into the smallest possible bits with a pair of teasing needles, cover and examine 
 with the high power. Look for slender cells, slightly broader at one end and 
 narrower or irregularly branched at the other. The oval nucleus occupies an 
 enlargement which is usually nearer the narrow end. In some of the cells the 
 broader end will be found to contain a cup-shaped cavity which in life is filled 
 with mucus. Such cells are called goblet cells. Draw a few of the cells. If the 
 nucleus is not visible, stain with a little aceto-carmine. In their natural position 
 these cells form a single layer lining the cavity of the intestine, their long axes 
 parallel to each other, and their broad ends facing the cavity. 
 
28 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 c) Ciliated epithelium: Have the assistant give you a little tissue scraped 
 from the roof of the mouth of a freshly pithed frog. Mount the scrapings in 
 0.6 per cent salt solution, tease into small bits, cover and examine. Search the 
 field until a shimmering movement is seen; then put on the high power. Note 
 the groups of cells with one surface covered with delicate hairlike processes of the 
 cytoplasm, called cilia, which keep up a rapid vibration, sufficiently strong to 
 move small particles in the vicinity or to cause the cells themselves to whirl 
 around. You may be able to find some single cells. In that case note that while 
 the cells in groups are more or less polyhedral in shape, with flat sides, the isolated 
 cells tend to become spherical. These ciliated epithelial cells are arranged in a 
 layer lining the roof of the mouth cavity, with their ciliated surfaces toward the 
 cavity, and as the cilia of all the cells act in co-ordination, moving in waves 
 which always travel in the same direction, a current is set up in that direction, 
 as already demonstrated (experiment under II, B, 4). Draw. 
 
 2. Muscular tissue. The cells composing muscular tissue are distinguished 
 physiologically by their property of contractility, and morphologically by their 
 long and slender form and fibrillar structure. As in the preceding kind of tissue, 
 there is relatively little intercellular substance present (Holmes, pp. 128-31). 
 
 a) Involuntary, unstriated, or smooth muscle: Obtain a small piece of frog 
 intestine which has been macerated, mount it in salt solution, tease with needles 
 into the smallest possible bits, cover and examine. Notice that this material 
 consists of very long and slender, almost threadlike cells, running parallel, in 
 layers at right angles to each other. It is often difficult to actually isolate a 
 single one of these long cells, but if you have teased your material carefully, you 
 will generally find a few nearly separate cells along the frayed edges of the general 
 mass. Each long fiber, which is an involuntary muscle cell, possesses an elliptical 
 nucleus, usually faintly visible in the unstained material. If desired, the aceto- 
 carmine stain may be applied to render the nuclei more distinct. Draw. (It 
 may be remarked here for the benefit of the student that the figure in Holmes 
 of these cells, Fig. 35, is somewhat inaccurate in respect to their length.) 
 
 b) Voluntary or striated muscle: Cut out a small piece from the leg muscles 
 of your preserved frog or from a recently pithed frog (the former is often bet'ter 
 for the purpose), mount in salt solution, tease carefully in the direction of the 
 long axis of the muscle until you have separated your piece into threads, cover 
 and examine. The long cylindrical objects which you will see are the muscle 
 cells, or muscle fibers, and each voluntary muscle is composed of a great many 
 such fibers. They are very large compared to the other cells which we have been 
 studying, and in fact are so long that it is impossible' to obtain a complete one; 
 hence the ends are broken. Each fiber is covered by a delicate cell wall, called 
 in this case the sarcolemma, and is crossed by conspicuous alternately light and 
 dark transverse bands (really disks, as the muscle is cylindrical). It is because 
 of these bands, which probably represent differences in the consistency of the 
 
GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FROG 29 
 
 muscle substance, that voluntary muscle is called "striped" muscle. A longi- 
 tudinal striation may also usually be seen, indicating that the muscle fiber is 
 really composed of a number of much smaller longitudinal fibers, known as 
 fibrillae or sarcostyles, which are bound together in the same sarcolemma. Each 
 muscle fiber contains a number of slender nuclei, located near the surface, just 
 under the sarcolemma. In order to see them it will generally be necessary to 
 apply the aceto-carmine stain. Since the young muscle cell possesses but a 
 single nucleus, and since the others are produced by the division of this nucleus, 
 it is probable that the adult muscle fiber is not a single cell but a number of cells 
 with no cell walls between. Such a multinucleate structure is called a syncytium. 
 Draw a muscle cell showing all structures. 
 
 3. Connective tissue. In this type of tissue, the cells are much reduced 
 and few in number, and the greater bulk of the tissue consists of intercellular 
 substance. The function of the connective tissue is that of supporting and 
 binding other parts and tissues. It is therefore exceedingly widespread (Holmes, 
 pp. 123-28). 
 
 a) White fibrous or collagenous connective tissue: This is the white weblike 
 material binding the muscles of the frog together or forming the partitions 
 between the subcutaneous lymph sacs. Remove some from either of these places 
 of your preserved frog, spread it out carefully on a slide so as to make a very 
 thin layer, add salt solution, cover and examine. It consists for the most part 
 of long, slender, wavy fibers, running in all directions. These are the white or 
 collagenous fibers (so called because when boiled they form glue) ; they are very 
 tough and inelastic. Another type of fiber, the yellow elastic fibers, is present 
 in small numbers, distinguishable by the fact that they run straight and singly, 
 not in bundles as do the white ones. The fibers of connective tissue are not 
 cells, and are probably not living, but they are the intercellular products of the 
 real connective tissue cells. In order to see these latter, apply the aceto-carmine 
 stain, and note after a few minutes the oval nuclei of the connective tissue cells 
 staining deep pink or red, scattered among the fibers. The acetic acid in the 
 stain will also tend to dissolve the white fibers, making the yellow elastic ones 
 more distinct. Cells and fibers are imbedded in an invisible, clear, gelatinous 
 matrix which is also secreted by the cells. Draw a small portion of the tissue, 
 showing fibers and nuclei. 
 
 b) Cartilage: Have the assistant slice off with a razor a thin piece of cartilage 
 from the end of the one of the long limb bones of a recently pithed frog, mount 
 in salt solution, cover and examine. The prepared slide "Frog cartilage" may 
 also be used. Cartilage consists of a clear matrix which is much more dense and 
 firm than in the previous type of 'connective tissue. In this matrix are rounded 
 spaces or lacunae, at intervals, which are completely filled in the living material 
 by the cartilage cells, which secrete the matrix. When two or more cells are 
 contained in one lacuna, they have originated through the division of a previous 
 
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 single cell, and will become separated from each other by the deposit of matrix 
 between them. Draw a small portion of cartilage. 
 
 c) Bone: Examine prepared slide "Frog bone." These slides are prepared 
 by grinding down slices of dried bone; hence the bone cells and other living 
 structures of the bone have been destroyed. In bone, the matrix has been 
 rendered very firm and strong by the deposit in it of mineral salts, chiefly cal- 
 cium phosphate and calcium carbonate, through the activity of the bone cells. 
 This matrix is arranged in concentric layers, called lamellae, around circular 
 holes, which are the cross-sections of canals, the Eaversian canals. The Haver- 
 sian canals traverse the bone in a longitudinal direction and in life carry blood 
 vessels, lymph vessels, and nerves for the nutrition of the bone. Scattered 
 through the lamellae are minute spaces, or lacunae, with spidery processes extend- 
 ing out into the matrix. In these spaces the bone cells and their processes are 
 contained in the living condition. Draw a portion of bone. 
 
 4. Blood. Blood may be regarded as tissue in which the intercellular sub 
 stance is liquid. The cells of blood are called corpuscles, and the fluid inter- 
 cellular portion, the plasma. The corpuscles are of two general classes, red 
 corpuscles, which give the red color to the blood and carry oxygen, and white 
 corpuscles, which protect the body from disease (Holmes, pp. 258-64). 
 
 a) Fresh blood: Obtain from the assistant a drop of fresh frog blood, stir it 
 up in salt solution, cover and examine with the high power. The numerous 
 oval bodies are the red blood corpuscles, although they are not red except in 
 masses. Scattered here and there among the red corpuscles will be found the 
 white corpuscles, smaller, irregular in shape, and with granular cytoplasm. If 
 you watch a white corpuscle for some time you may see it undergo slow changes 
 of shape, an example of amoeboid movement. By gently moving the cover glass, 
 cause the red corpuscles to float about on the slide, and as they turn determine 
 their shape in profile. The central bulge is due to the nucleus, which is generally 
 faintly visible. 
 
 b) Stained blood: Examine with the high power the slide of blood. Note: 
 
 (1) The red blood corpuscles, the very numerous oval bodies, on the slide. 
 Each has a central nucleus. Draw one. 
 
 (2) The white blood corpuscles: As these are much less numerous than the 
 red corpuscles, it will be necessary to search the slide carefully for them. There 
 are several kinds of white corpuscles. Those with a complex nucleus, consisting 
 of several pieces, and with granular cytoplasm are called leucocytes; those with 
 an ordinary type of nucleus and with clear cytoplasm are lymphocytes. Try to 
 identify the following kinds and make drawings of those which you are able to 
 find: 
 
 (a) Polymorphonuclear leucocytes: This type of white blood cell is distin- 
 guished by its very irregular nucleus, which consists of several masses, apparently 
 separate but really united by delicate strands. The cytoplasm is always packed 
 
GENERAL HISTOLOGY: CELLS AND TISSUES 31 
 
 with granules, which are fine in the common type of leucocyte, coarse in a rarer 
 type. 
 
 (b) Large lymphocytes: These are nearly spherical cells, with clear cytoplasm 
 and a small rounded nucleus. 
 
 (c) Small lymphocytes: They are smaller than the preceding with relatively 
 large nuclei, covered by a small rim of cytoplasm. 
 
 5. Nervous tissue. Nervous tissue is composed of nerve cells, and the struc- 
 tures which support them (Holmes, pp. 131-33). A nerve cell consists of a 
 central portion, called the cell body which contains a large nucleus, and of slender 
 processes which extend out from this cell body often to long distances. Portions 
 of nervous tissue which consist almost entirely of cell bodies are designated as 
 gray matter, while those which consist of the processes constitute the white matter. 
 The processes of a nerve cell are of two kinds: those that convey the impulses into 
 the cell, called dendrites, usually very numerous and much branched, and that 
 one which conveys the impulse away from the cell, always single and unbranched 
 or slightly branched, named the axone. What are called nerves are bundles of 
 axones. 
 
 a) Brain cells: In order to demonstrate the entire nerve cell with its processes 
 it is necessary to cut thick slices of the brain, and to devise a special staining 
 method since the processes do not take ordinary stains. A method was originated 
 by an Italian histologist named Golgi, by which the entire cell is blackened by a 
 deposit of silver upon it. Examine a slide of brain provided, stained by the 
 Golgi method, either brain cells of the rabbit (Lepus), or human cerebellum. 
 Use low power only, as the sections are thick. Note the numerous black branched 
 objects upon the slide. Each is a nerve cell with its processes. Pick out a 
 favorable place on the slide (4) and study one of the cells. Each consists of a 
 rounded or triangular cell body from which spring several processes. In the 
 case of the rabbit, one large, stout process springs from the pointed end of the 
 cell body and several branched processes from the rounded end. In the cells 
 of the cerebellum, two or three stout processes (dendrites) spring from one side 
 of the cell and immediately break up into an exceedingly complicated system 
 of branches, while from the opposite surface of the cell the small slender axone 
 arises (it is not always visible). Draw a brain cell. 
 
 b) Motor cells of the spinal cord of the frog: In order to demonstrate the 
 actual structure of the cell body, the usual thin sections, stained in the ordinary 
 way, are employed. Examine the slide "Spinal cord frog" with your lowest 
 power. Identify the central large oval body on the slide (all other objects are 
 to be disregarded). In this oval object, which is the cross-section of the spinal 
 cord, observe two general regions, a central, denser, slightly darker region, the 
 gray matter, trapezoidal in shape and containing numerous darkly stained cell 
 bodies; and an outer region, lighter, more open, and with only a few small 
 cell bodies, the white matter. In the two corners of the lower base of the trapezoid 
 
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 formed by the gray matter locate several very large cells. These are the motor 
 cells whose axones extend out to the voluntary muscles of the body. Examine 
 one of these with the high power. The structure of the cell body is well shown, 
 but only the beginnings of the processes are present. (Why?) Study the 
 structure of the cell body, comparing with other cells already seen. Note the 
 relatively large nucleus, containing a conspicuous round body, the nudeolus, 
 but very few chromatin granules, and the granular, sometimes nbrillar structure 
 of the cytoplasm. Draw. 
 
 c) Structure of a nerve: Obtain a small piece of fresh nerve from a recently 
 pithed frog. Mount in salt solution and tease with needles in a longitudinal 
 direction until you have separated it out into minute fibers. Cover and examine. 
 The nerve is seen to be made up of a number of cylindrical fibers, bound together 
 by connective tissue. Each of the fibers is in fact a single axone of a nerve cell. 
 Find an isolated fiber and examine with the high power. It consists of a central 
 transparent region, the axone itself, often called here the axis cylinder, and a 
 thick sheath surrounding this, which is known as the medullary sheath. The 
 The sheath is composed of a fatty substance, called myelin, which tends to swell 
 up and become distorted in the preparation. Outside of the medullary sheath 
 is a delicate cell wall, the neurilemma. Draw. 
 
 6. Reproductive cells. 
 
 a) Eggs: The eggs or ova of animals are the largest cells, although their 
 great size is generally due to the large amount of inert food material (yolk) 
 which they contain. The eggs of the frog are the spherical black and white 
 protuberances which have already been noted on the surface of the ovaries. 
 
 b) Spermatozoa: The spermatozoa of the frog are best studied in the spring, 
 when the animals are sexually active, as at other seasons they are apt to be 
 non-motile and imperfectly developed. In such case, spermatozoa of a guinea- 
 pig or rat should be examined instead. Take a small portion of the testis of a 
 freshly killed frog or other animal, tease in salt solution, cover and examine 
 (Holmes, p. 216). The preparation will contain thousands of minute, slender, 
 rapidly moving objects, the spermatozoa. They are peculiarly modified cells. 
 In the frog each possesses a rodlike, slightly curved, head, which is practically 
 nothing but the nucleus, and a long, very slender, vibratile tail, which represents 
 the cytoplasm. The spermatozoa of other animals generally have smaller 
 rounded heads and longer tails than those of the frog. Draw a spermatozoon. 
 
IV. GENERAL HISTOLOGY: STRUCTURE OF ORGANS 
 
 An organ consists of two or more kinds of tissue united together in a definite 
 and characteristic way for the performance of specific functions. 
 
 A. STRUCTURE OF THE LIVER 
 
 Examine slide " Necturus liver" (see Holmes, pp. 153-56). The liver may 
 be taken as an example of a rather simply constructed organ, and also as an 
 example of a secreting gland. It consists almost entirely of large cuboidal 
 epithelial cells, arranged in cylindrical columns which branch and connect with 
 each other in a very irregular manner. The columns therefore form a kind of 
 network with numerous large spaces between them. These spaces are capil- 
 laries and in them blood corpuscles will usually be found. A very slender, 
 usually invisible canal runs down the center of each liver column between the 
 cells, and into this canal, which is called a bile capillary, the secretion of the liver 
 cells, known as bile, is poured. The large black spots scattered abundantly 
 through the liver are collections of pigment granules. Large blood vessels, and 
 perhaps some of the bile ducts which collect the bile from the bile capillaries, may 
 be present on the section. Surrounding the liver and penetrating it here and 
 there along the course of the larger blood vessels is a small amount of white 
 fibrous connective tissue. The liver cells have several other highly important 
 functions besides that of secreting bile. 
 
 B. STRUCTURE OF THE INTESTINE 
 
 Examine slide " Necturus intestine" (see Holmes, pp. 148-50). These 
 cross-sections of the small intestine have been stained with Mallory's connective 
 tissue stain in order to produce a marked color contrast between the different 
 layers of the intestinal wall. This stain dyes connective tissue and related sub- 
 stances a deep blue color, and nuclei orange or red. 
 
 i. General structure of the intestinal wall. The wall of the intestine con- 
 sists of four coats. Identify these as follows with the low power, beginning next 
 to the cavity: 
 
 a) The mucous coat (mucous membrane or tunica mucosa], the innermost 
 light-colored layer, containing numerous red or orange nuclei. It is thrown up 
 into folds and is sharply separated from the next layer by its different reaction 
 to the dye. 
 
 b) The submucous coat (tela submucosd), a broad band, stained deep blue, 
 containing frequent spaces and extending up into the folds of the mucosa. 
 
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34 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 c) The muscular coat (tunica muscularis), the remainder of the intestinal 
 wall, consisting of two strata: 
 
 (1) The circular muscle layer (stratum circulare) the inner layer, in which the 
 muscles run in a circular direction. 
 
 (2) The longitudinal muscle layer (stratum longitudinale) , the outer layer, 
 in which the muscles run in a longitudinal direction. This layer also contains 
 a considerable quantity of connective tissue and hence takes more of the blue 
 stain than the preceding layer. 
 
 d) The serous coat (tunica serosa, or visceral peritoneum), a very thin mem- 
 brane covering the outside of the intestine, invisible under the low power. It is 
 not really a part of the intestinal wall but the peritoneum investing the intestine. 
 
 2. Detailed structure of the intestinal wall. Select a favorable place where 
 the mucous membrane is cut parallel to the long axes of its cells. The best 
 places are generally at the bottom of the folds. Study with the high power. 
 
 a) The mucous membrane consists of the lining epithelium of the intestine 
 and subjacent parts. This lining epithelium is composed of a single layer of 
 tall columnar cells, each extending from the cavity of the intestine to the under- 
 lying connective tissue (stained blue). These cells were studied in Section III, 
 B, i, b. The cell walls are frequently difficult to see. Each cell possesses 
 near its base a large oval granular nucleus, stained red or orange. Why do the 
 nuclei appear so numerous (-4)? Are they all in the same plane (determine this 
 by changing the focus)? The free ends (ends next the cavity) of many of the 
 epithelial cells contain flask-shaped depressions, called goblets, which are filled 
 with mucus. As mucus is chemically related to connective tissue, the goblets 
 are dyed blue by Mallory's stain. There are thus two kinds of cells in 
 the epithelium, the ordinary columnar cells and the goblet cells. Understand the 
 different appearance of various parts of the mucosa by considering that 
 the plane of the section may not necessarily be parallel to the long axes of 
 the epithelial cells. 
 
 The tissue immediately in contact with the epithelium and accompanying 
 it in all its foldings is considered to be a part of the mucous membrane. It is 
 designated as the tunica propria or stroma, and consists of loosely woven white 
 connective tissue fibrils, which run in general parallel to the epithelium. The 
 connective tissue cells (of which only the nuclei are distinctly visible) are more 
 numerous here than in the next layer. However, no sharp distinction can be 
 drawn between the tunica propria and the submucous coat. The tunica propria 
 is abundantly perforated by blood and lymph spaces, and contains little nests 
 of cells whose function is not clear. 
 
 b) The submucous coat is composed of white fibrous connective tissue con- 
 tinuous with the tunica propria, but its fibers do not run parallel to the cavity 
 of the intestine. Note in it the scattered connective tissue cells and the many 
 large lymph and blood vessels. 
 
GENERAL HISTOLOGY: STRUCTURE OF ORGANS 35 
 
 c) The circular muscle layer consists of smooth muscle cells running parallel 
 to the plane of section. The boundaries of the individual muscle cells are not 
 clear, but the whole layer appears to be made up of parallel fibrillar stria tions. 
 The conspicuous nuclei are long and spindle-shaped. 
 
 d) The longitudinal muscle layer contains a considerable quantity of white 
 fibrous connective tissue which stains blue, in which are imbedded smooth 
 muscle cells running at right angles to the plane of section, and thus appearing 
 as circles. Understand why the nuclei may or may not appear in the circular 
 cross-section. Numerous blood vessels are present in this layer. 
 
 e) The serous coat is a very thin membrane looking like a line closely applied 
 to the outer surface of the preceding coat. At intervals its flattened nuclei are 
 seen. As already explained the serous coat is the visceral peritoneum. 
 
 Draw a small portion of the intestinal wall showing the appearance and cell 
 structure of the fiber layers accurately and in detail. The drawing should be 
 four or five inches in width. 
 
 C. STRUCTURE OF THE STOMACH 
 
 Examine slide "Frog stomach" (see Holmes, p. 140). Observe that the 
 general appearance and arrangement of layers of the stomach wall are the same 
 as in the case of the small intestine, except that the coats are thicker, especially 
 the mucous and muscular coats. Tlie particular point of interest about the 
 stomach wall is the formation of glands in the mucosa. 
 
 i. The gastric glands. The mucosa of the stomach is thrown up into regu- 
 lar folds or rugae, which appear as conical elevations in section. The lining 
 epithelium does not form an even layer over these folds but is itself folded in and 
 out in such a way as to produce a large number of long tubular glands set closely 
 together with their long axes parallel. It may be noted in passing that all 
 glands are produced by such infoldings of epithelia. Narrow strands of the 
 tunica propria separate the glands from each other. Find a place on the slide 
 where the glands are cut parallel to their long axes and examine one of the gastric 
 glands in detail with the high power. (Their appearance is somewhat different 
 in different regions of the stomach. Consult Holmes, p. 140.) The parts of 
 a gastric gland are mouth, neck, and body or fundus. The mouth is the longest 
 part and contains a narrow canal leading from the interior of the gland into the 
 cavity of the stomach. The cells near the beginning of the mouth are very elon- 
 gated, with clear free ends, probably containing mucus, and slender- tailed nuclei. 
 Farther down the mouth, the cells and nuclei become more rounded. The region 
 where the mouth ceases is the neck and consists of a few cells which contain 
 large clear spaces. The gland may branch in the neck region so that two or 
 more bodies are attached to one mouth. Below the neck the body or fundus is 
 composed of polygonal granular cells, whose function is to secrete the gastric juice. 
 
 Draw a gastric gland in detail. 
 
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 2. The muscularis mucosae. Another difference between the stomach and 
 the intestine is that the tunica propria of the mucous membrane is sharply 
 bounded from the submucous coat by a narrow band of smooth muscle fibers 
 which is called the muscularis mucosae. It is composed of the usual two layers, 
 an inner circular and an outer longitudinal one. 
 
 D. STRUCTURE OF THE SKIN 
 
 Examine slide "Frog skin" (see Holmes, chap, ix, pp. 179-86). The skin 
 is a combination of epithelial and connective tissue. The epithelial part is 
 called the epidermis; the connective tissue part, the dermis or corium. 
 
 1. The epidermis. The epidermis is a stratified epithelium, i.e., an epi- 
 thelium composed of several layers of cells. The outermost layer of the epidermis 
 (stratum corneum) consists of very flat, thin, polygonal cells, which are cornified 
 or horny in composition. These cells are the ones which are shed by the frog, 
 and they have already been examined separately. Beneath the stratum corneum, 
 the cells gradually change from a flattened to a rounded, and finally to a columnar 
 shape, until the innermost ones are quite columnar in form. These layers of 
 cells constitute the stratum germinativum (also called stratum mucosum, and 
 stratum Malpighii). The cells of the stratum germinativum frequently contain 
 brown pigment granules, and dark brown or black branched pigment cells (chro- 
 matophores) may be scattered among the regular epithelial cells. 
 
 2. The dermis. The dermis is composed of connective tissue, separable into 
 two layers, an outer loose layer, the stratum spongiosum, and an inner compact 
 layer, the stratum compactum. 
 
 a) The stratum spongiosum: This consists of a loose, irregular network of 
 connective tissue fibers, inclosing lymph spaces, blood vessels, etc. It contains 
 a thin layer of chromatophores, dark-colored, irregular, branching cells just 
 under the epidermis, and beneath this the cutaneous glands. 
 
 b) The cutaneous glands: These are produced by a simple infolding of the 
 stratum germinativum of the epidermis, and their walls are a single layer thick. 
 Each opens to the surface of the skin by a narrow neck which passes up through 
 the epidermis. Explain why most of the glands on the slide appear to have no 
 neck (A). Also explain why some of them appear to be solid instead of hollow. 
 Two general varieties of cutaneous glands are recognized in the frog, the mucus 
 and the poison glands. 
 
 The mucus glands are smaller and much more numerous than the poison 
 glands. Their appearance differs according to the stage of activity in which 
 they happen to be. In the resting or inactive state, the epithelial cells are very 
 high and conical so that the cavity of the gland is practically obliterated; the 
 nuclei are small and situated at the bases of the cells. In the active state, the 
 inner ends of the cells are converted into mucus which forms transparent masses 
 
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 in the cavity of the gland, which now appears larger than in the resting condition; 
 the cells in the inactive condition are smaller, cuboidal, with centrally situated 
 nuclei. Intermediate states, of course, occur between these two extremes. 
 
 The poison glands are much larger than the mucus glands and of infrequent 
 occurrence except on certain parts of the skin. There may be none on your 
 slide. The epithelial cells form a very thin layer surrounding the very large 
 cavity, and frequently the cell walls are not distinct. The secretion, which is 
 poisonous, appears as granular masses near the epithelium. 
 
 Each of the glands is invested with a thin layer of smooth muscles, and outside 
 of this a layer of connective tissue. Neither of these layers can be clearly made 
 out in the preparations. 
 
 c) The stratum compactum: This consists of a dense layer of white connective 
 tissue fibers, arranged parallel to the surface of the skin. At intervals, vertical 
 strands, consisting of connective tissue, smooth muscle cells, blood vessels, 
 nerves, etc., cross the wavy layers of the stratum compactum at right angles, 
 and may extend up into the epidermis. 
 
 d) The subcutaneous connective tissue: Beneath the stratum compactum 
 occurs loose connective tissue which is not a part of the skin but forms the 
 boundaries of the subcutaneous lymph sacs. 
 
 Draw a portion of the skin, showing in detail the structure of all the layers. 
 
 E. STRUCTURE OF THE KIDNEY 
 
 Examine slide "Frog kidney" (see Holmes, pp. 202-6). The section is 
 taken across the kidney. The flattened surface is ventral; the rounded surface 
 dorsal. In the middle of the ventral surface, observe a yellowish or orange mass, 
 the adrenal gland, made up of masses of epithelial cells (this is not present on all 
 sections) ; and in this region also there are usually seen sections of large arteries 
 and veins. The two sides of the kidney may be distinguished in section as 
 follows: the outer edge is more pointed and contains cross-sections of a large 
 vein, the renal portal vein, and the ureter. 
 
 1. The tubules. The greater portion of the kidney is made up of extremely 
 long tubular glands, called tubules, which are much coiled and twisted. Because 
 of this coiling, the tubules appear in section as circles, ellipses, crescents, etc. 
 Each tubule possesses a large and distinct central cavity, and its wall consists 
 of a single layer of cuboidal epithelial cells, whose function is to extract the 
 nitrogenous waste matters from the blood. Note the numerous blood vessels 
 between the tubules, and the connective tissue between the tubules and covering 
 the surface of the kidney. 
 
 2. The Malpighian bodies or renal corpuscles. Each uriniferous tubule 
 begins in a Malpighian body, little rounded masses situated near the ventral 
 surface. Examine one of these with the high power. It consists of a dense tuft 
 
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 of capillaries, called a glomerulus, around which the beginning of the tubule 
 forms a very thin cup-shaped inclosing membrane, the Bowman's capsule. 
 Through the opening of the cup an artery enters the glomerulus, and a vein 
 leaves it; opposite this point the uriniferous tubule begins. You will probably 
 have to examine a number of Malpighian bodies in order to see all of these points. 
 The tubule after leaving the Malpighian body winds in a complicated way 
 through the substance of the kidney and finally empties into a collecting tubule 
 which opens into the ureter. 
 
 F. STRUCTURE OF THE SPINAL CORD 
 
 Examine slide "Frog spinal cord" (see Holmes, p. 286). The spinal cord, 
 as we have seen, consists of the central gray matter, composed of nerve-cell 
 bodies, and the peripheral white matter, composed of nerve-cell processes. In 
 the center of the gray matter is a small canal, the central canal. The four corners 
 of the gray matter are produced into processes, known as the dorsal and ventral 
 horns, or cornua of the gray matter. The ventral horns are considerably broader 
 than the dorsal horns, and contain the large motor cells which have already 
 been examined. The spinal cord is nearly separated into two symmetrical 
 halves by the dorsal and ventral fissures, which extend from the middle of the 
 dorsal and ventral sides in toward the central canal. The dorsal fissure is shallow 
 and is continued toward the central canal by a narrow septum, composed of 
 loose tissue. The ventral fissure is much deeper and extends nearly to the 
 central canal; it incloses an artery, the ventral spinal artery. 
 
 The white matter consists mostly of cross-sections of the nerve fibers, which 
 take their origin from the cells of the gray matter. In addition to the nerve 
 fibers, the white matter contains scattered cells, which are mainly the cells of 
 the neuroglia, a peculiar kind of connective tissue, found only in the nervous 
 system. The neuroglia forms a network supporting the nervous structures. 
 
 The cord is surrounded by a sheath, the pia mater, composed of connective 
 tissue, and containing numerous blood vessels. 
 
 Draw the section of the cord, showing the above-mentioned features. 
 
 The instructor will be glad to lend sections of other organs of the frog to 
 students who care to see them. 
 
V. THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 
 
 We have seen that organisms are composed of cells, that cells are combined 
 to form tissues, and tissues to make up organs. The organs are united in groups 
 called systems. We have already studied these systems in a general way, and 
 they are now to be studied in detail. 
 
 A. THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM 
 
 1. Esophagus. Use your preserved frog. Cut through the tissues bound- 
 ing the anterior wall of the coelome to the left of the left lung, and turn the lung 
 and heart to the right. This exposes the esophagus. It extends from the end 
 of the mouth cavity, called the pharynx, to the stomach. A slight enlargement 
 usually marks the beginning of the stomach (Holmes, pp. 138-42). 
 
 2. Stomach The end of the stomach continuous with the esophagus is 
 called the cardiac end; the opposite end is the pyloric end, and is marked by a 
 constriction, the pylorus. Slit open the stomach by a longitudinal slit from 
 cardiac to pyloric end. Note the longitudinal ridges, or rugae, in the lining of 
 the stomach, and compare with the lining of the esophagus and small intestine. 
 Examine the cut surface, and note that the layers of the stomach wall, which 
 have already been seen in microscopic section, can be distinguished with the 
 naked eye. The mucosa and submucosa appear as a single layer, which can be 
 separated from the underlying thick circular muscle layer; the longitudinal 
 muscle layer forms a thin white outer coat. 
 
 3. The small intestine. The first part of the small intestine is called 
 duodenum, and it receives the common bile duct which carries the secretions of the 
 liver and pancreas. The remaining coiled part of the small intestine is the 
 ileum (Holmes, p. 148). 
 
 4. The liver. The liver consists of the following parts: The left lobe is the 
 largest, and is divided by a deep fissure into an anterior part, which lies to the 
 left, and a posterior part which occupies the middle. The right lobe is not sub- 
 divided, but lies to the right of the median line extending somewhat dorsally. 
 The middle lobe of the liver is not visible ventrally unless the other lobes are 
 pushed apart. It then appears as a small squarish lobe extending far dorsally 
 and continuous with the posterior part of the left lobe. Between the right lobe 
 and the posterior part of the left lobe on the dorsal side is the green round gall 
 bladder (Holmes, p. 152). 
 
 5. The pancreas. Turn the lobes of the liver forward and study the pancreas. 
 It is an irregular, branched, yellowish gland lying in the gastro-hepato-duodenal 
 
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 ligament. It sends down two tail-like processes to the duodenum, and another 
 process, the hepatic process, along the dorsal surface of the posterior part 
 of the left lobe of the liver, where it extends almost to the gall bladder 
 (Holmes, p. 151). 
 
 6. The bile duct. The common bile duct runs through the pancreas and 
 enters the duodenum by way of the second of the tail-like processes mentioned 
 above, i.e., the one farthest away from the pylorus. Dissect away the pancreas 
 in this region, and find the slender white duct, about the size of a sewing thread 
 Trace the duct up through the pancreas into the hepatic process of the pancreas. 
 Here it receives a number of small hepatic ducts from the posterior part of the 
 left lobe. To find these dissect away the substance of the liver. Follow the 
 bile duct to the gall bladder, where it again receives hepatic ducts from the right 
 lobe and the posterior part of the left lobe. Two ducts, the cystic ducts, emerge 
 from the gall bladder. One of them unites with the hepatic ducts near by, and 
 the other is continuous with the common bile duct. Consult Holmes, Fig. 42, 
 p. 152, and work out the hepatic and cystic ducts as well as you can. It is not 
 practical to find the pancreatic ducts. 
 
 7. The large intestine. The ileum enlarges abruptly into the large intestine, 
 which runs straight to the anus. The upper part of the large intestine is called 
 rectum; the lower part, cloaca. Cut through the pelvic girdle so as to expose 
 the intestine all the way to the anus. Find the origin of the urinary bladder 
 from the ventral wall of the cloaca. The cloaca also receives the ureters and 
 oviducts. 
 
 Draw the entire digestive tract, showing all its parts, with the lobes of the 
 liver turned forward. Draw in the common bile duct in proper position in the 
 pancreas, and the hepatic and cystic ducts as far as you have been able to find 
 them. 
 
 B. THE URTNOGENITAL SYSTEM 
 
 Remove the digestive system, leaving the large intestine in place (Holmes, 
 chap, xi, pp. 212-18). 
 
 i. Male urinogenital system. Strip off the peritoneum wherever necessary 
 to expose the urinogenital system. Each testis is an oval body attached by a 
 fold of peritoneum, the mesorchium, to the adjacent kidney. From each testis 
 spring several delicate ducts, the vasa efferentia, which run in the mesorchium 
 and penetrate the kidney. The vasa efferentia are really outgrowths of the 
 Malpighian bodies of the kidney, which extend out and connect with the testes. 
 By holding up the mesorchium to the light, the vasa efferentia may usually be 
 seen. The vasa efferentia after entering the kidney eventually connect with the 
 ureter by a route which differs in different species of frogs. From the posterior, 
 lateral edge of each kidney extends the ureter. Find it and trace it to the cloaca. 
 Alongside and parallel to the lateral edge of the kidney runs a vestigial oviduct, 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 41 
 
 which also opens into the cloaca. Trace it to the cloaca and note that the ureter 
 is closely applied to the dorsal side of the oviduct. . 
 
 Draw the male urinogenital system showing all of the above-mentioned parts. 
 
 2. Female urinogenital system. The relations of kidney and ureter are the 
 same as in the male. The ovary, however, bears no relation to the kidney. 
 It and its mesentery have already been noted. The oviducts are a pair of con- 
 voluted tubes, extending the whole length of the body cavity. Trace one 
 anteriorly to the anterior wall of the coelome, where it opens into the body 
 cavity by a funnel-shaped mouth, or ostium, near the base of the lung. Have the 
 assistant demonstrate .the ostium to you. Trace the oviduct posteriorly to the 
 cloaca. It widens into a large, thin-walled sac, the uterus, which lies behind 
 (dorsal to) the peritoneum in the cisterna magna. Cut open the cloaca, and 
 locate in its 'dorsal wall the two openings of the oviducts, situated upon pro- 
 jecting papillae and in the ventral wall, the opening of the urinary bladder. 
 
 Draw the female urinogenital system with the cloaca cut open, showing all 
 parts. 
 
 C. THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 
 
 At their anterior ends the two lungs open into a chamber, the larynx, which 
 communicates with the pharynx through the slitlike glottis. The larynx lies 
 just in front of the heart. Consult Holmes, chapter viii, pp. 165-68. Dissect 
 away all the muscles from the under surface of the lower jaw so as to expose the 
 flat body of the hyoid cartilage. Find the two thyroid processes of the hyoid 
 which extend posteriorly and inclose the laryngeal chamber between them. The 
 walls of this chamber are supported by a complicated arrangement of cartilages 
 for which Holmes, Fig. 45 (p. 166), should be consulted. Dissect posteriorly 
 from the larynx and remove or cut through blood vessels or other structures 
 until you have exposed the connection of the lungs with the larynx. Make a 
 longitudinal slit through the ventral wall of the larynx, spread the sides apart 
 and look within for the weal cords, a pair of folds extending lengthwise in the 
 chamber. Find the openings of the lungs into the latero-posterior walls of the 
 larynx, insert one blade of a scissors into one of the openings and slit open the 
 wall of the lung. Note that the inner wall of the lung is raised up into a network 
 of ridges, which divide the wall into a large number of small chambers or alveoli. 
 Blood vessels run along the ridges and break up into an intricate network of 
 capillaries in the walls of each alveolus, which serves as an air sac. 
 
 Draw the dissection. 
 
 D. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: THE VENOUS SYSTEM 
 
 For this purpose a fresh frog, probably injected, will be supplied. Open it 
 up in the usual way to the left of the median line, but be very careful not to cut 
 any blood vessels, especially near the heart. Be very cautious in spreading the 
 
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 body walls apart near the heart, so as not to injure the veins. The anterior 
 abdominal vein in the median ventral line must be preserved and should be 
 separated from the body wall before spreading the walls apart. 
 
 i. The systemic veins (Holmes, pp. 272-74). Systemic veins are those which 
 open into the heart, returning blood from the body directly to the heart. Remove 
 the pericardial sac from the heart, and turn the heart forward so as to expose the 
 sinus venosus. Three large veins contribute to the sinus venosus: the posterior 
 vena cava, or postcaval vein, which emerges from the liver (receiving a large vein 
 on each side from the liver so that apparently three veins are present) and enters 
 the median posterior wall of the sinus; and the two anterior venae cavae, or 
 precaval veins, one opening into each lateral wall of the sinus. 
 
 a) The precaval vein: Trace one of the precaval veins (since both have iden- 
 tical branches). It extends laterally from the heart along the border of the 
 auricle, and about i cm. away from the heart passes through the pleuro- 
 peritoneal membrane. Directly outside of this membrane it forks simulta- 
 neously into three branches. The most anterior one of these is the external 
 jugular; it passes straight anteriorly into the muscles of the floor of the mouth, 
 from which, together with the tongue, hyoid, etc., it receives venous blood 
 through numerous small branches. The middle of the three branches of the 
 precaval is the inominate; it passes laterally and then turns abruptly dorsally, 
 receiving as it turns a small subscapular vein from the muscles of the shoulder. 
 The main vein beyond the entrance of this branch is known as the internal 
 jugular; it descends straight into the hollow between the fore limb and the 
 larynx, and disappears dorsally where it collects blood from the brain and spinal 
 cord, from the roof of the mouth, and from a number of muscles. The third and 
 posterior branch of the precaval is the subclavian. It is a large vein passing 
 directly laterally to the base of the fore limb where it receives the brachial vein, 
 carrying venous blood out of the fore limb. Just beyond this point the vein, 
 now called cutaneous^ or musculo-cutaneous, turns abruptly and runs straight 
 posteriorly along the muscle of the ventro-lateral body wall (pectoral muscle). 
 It then bends sharply dorsally and passes to the skin by way of the partition 
 between the abdominal and lateral lymph sacs. It runs anteriorly under the 
 skin forward to the nares, collecting venous blood from the skin of the entire 
 dorsal side. 
 
 b) The postcaval vein: Trace the postcaval posteriorly from the sinus venosus 
 into the liver. Where it emerges from the liver substance it receives two large 
 hepatic veins, one from the right lobe, the other from the left lobe of the liver. 
 Turn the lobes of the liver to the right and find where the postcaval enters the 
 middle lobe from behind. Trace it posteriorly. It originates between the two 
 kidneys, from which it receives a number of renal veins as well as veins from the 
 reproductive organs and fat bodies. 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 
 
 43 
 
 2. The hepatic portal system (Holmes, p. 277). A portal system is one in 
 which the venous blood does not return directly to the heart but enters a system 
 of capillaries in some organ from which the venous blood is then collected by a 
 systemic vein. There are two portal systems in the frog, the hepatic portal sys- 
 tem in which the interposed capillaries are in the liver, and the renal portal system 
 where they are in the kidney. Spread out the liver with its lobes turned 
 forward so that the pancreas is visible. Find a large vein ascending through 
 the substance of the pancreas and forking on the dorsal surface of the liver. 
 This is the hepatic portal vein which breaks up into a system of capillaries 
 in the liver. The left fork of the hepatic portal vein sinks into the substance 
 of the posterior part of the left lobe of the liver. The right fork connects 
 with the anterior abdominal vein which also forks and then penetrates the 
 liver. Trace the hepatic portal vein posteriorly and note that it is formed 
 by the union of veins from the stomach, pancreas, spleen, and small' and 
 large intestines. All of the blood from the digestive tract therefore enters a 
 capillary system in the liver, from which it flows into the postcaval vein by 
 way of the hepatic veins. What is the purpose of this arrangement? Consult 
 Holmes, p. 153. 
 
 3. The renal portal system. Expose the kidneys and find along the outer 
 lateral edge of each a conspicuous vein, the renal portal vein, which enters the 
 substance of the kidney. Trace the renal portal vein posteriorly. At about the 
 middle of the kidney it receives a vein, the dor so-lumbar vein, from the muscles 
 of the back. Posterior to the kidney it is seen to be formed from two veins 
 which come from the leg. The outer of the two veins is the femoral, the inner, 
 the sciatic. At the point where each femoral vein enters the coelome, it gives 
 off a branch, the pelvic vein, which runs along the posterior wall of the coelome 
 to the median line where it joins the other pelvic. This union of the two pelvic 
 veins produces the abdominal vein, which joins the hepatic portal vein as 
 described above. The abdominal vein is thus a connection between the renal 
 and hepatic portal systems, and blood from the hind legs may return to the 
 heart either by way of the kidneys or by way of the liver. In the kidneys the 
 renal portal vein breaks up into capillaries, from which the blood is collected by 
 the postcaval vein. 
 
 4. The pulmonary veins. From each lung a pulmonary vein passes dorsal 
 to the sinus venosus and enters the left auricle. These veins are sometimes 
 difficult to locate. Turn the heart forward holding it down with the finger so 
 that it will be stretched. Pull away with a forceps the coronary ligament of 
 the liver so as to expose the lungs. A short straight vessel will be found running 
 from the inner border of the base of each lung obliquely toward the sinus venosus. 
 These two pulmonary veins join just under the beginning of the left precaval vein 
 and penetrate the left auricle at that point. 
 
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 Make an outline drawing of the frog and its organs, and in this put the 
 venous system in its proper relations to the organs. More than one drawing may 
 be necessary. Draw only those vessels which you have found. 
 
 E. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: THE ARTERIAL SYSTEM 
 
 The conus arteriosus starts from the base of the right side of the ventricle, 
 passes obliquely across the auricles, and divides near the anterior border of the 
 auricles into two vessels which turn respectively to the right and left. Each 
 branch is called a truncus arteriosus and each gives rise shortly to three arteries, 
 which are designated as aortic or arterial arches. To find this division into three, 
 carefully pick off the connective tissue, etc., from the surface of one truncus, and 
 follow it away from the heart. The most anterior of the three arches is the 
 carotid arch; the middle one is the systemic arch; the most posterior, the pulmo- 
 cutaneous arch. The pulmo-cutaneous arch generally branches off before the 
 other two (Holmes, pp. 268-70). 
 
 1. The carotid arch. This vessel passes forward and soon divides into two 
 branches, a medial small external carotid, and a lateral larger internal carotid. 
 Just at the place of division, or situated on the internal carotid, is an enlarge- 
 ment, the carotid gland, presenting a blackish appearance owing to the presence 
 of pigment cells. The internal carotid supplies the roof of the mouth, eye, brain, 
 and spinal cord. The external carotid (or lingual) supplies the tongue, thyroid, 
 and various muscles. Trace the branches of the carotid arch as far as practicable. 
 
 2. The pulmo-cutaneous arch. Trace this out from the truncus arteriosus, 
 and note that it soon divides into two branches. One of these, the pulmonary, 
 is short, and runs directly to the lung. The other, the cutaneous, passes outward 
 and forward, crossing the systemic arch, and then by a sharp dorsal turn dis- 
 appears in front of the shoulder. Turn the frog dorsal side up, slit up the skin 
 of the back, and deflect it. Find where the cutaneous artery emerges just in 
 front of the suprascapula, and note its branches on the skin. 
 
 3. The systemic arch. The systemic arch passes laterally and forward, and 
 seems to disappear in the mass of muscles. Dissect away these muscles and 
 follow its course. It runs forward alongside the internal carotid, then bends 
 dorsally and turns backward dorsal to the esophagus. Just after it has made 
 this posterior turn, the systemic arch gives rise to the following branches prac- 
 tically simultaneously: the small esophageal arteries, which supply the esoph- 
 agus; the subclavian, which passes laterally to the foreleg; and the occipito- 
 vertebral, which passes dorsally and promptly divides into an anterior branch, 
 the occipital, and a posterior branch, the vertebral. Both of these can be 
 readily followed in well-injected specimens. Turn the frog dorsal side up, 
 and find the occipital artery emerging just under the anterior border of the 
 suprascapula. Follow it along the head, noting a branch above the eye to the 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 45 
 
 anterior parts of the head, and one behind the eye for the upper and lower jaws. 
 Remove all muscles from the vertebral column, and note the intricate branches 
 of the vertebral artery to the vertebrae. 
 
 The two systemic arches from the two sides of the body now converge and 
 unite to form a single large vessel, the dorsal aorta. The dorsal aorta lies in the 
 cisterna magna, above the kidneys, and the pleuroperitoneum must be broken 
 through in the usual way to one side of one of the kidneys in order to follow this 
 vessel. At the point of union of the systemic arches, the large coeliaco-mesenteric 
 artery arises. Trace the branches of this artery. It divides into a coeliac, 
 which supplies the stomach, pancreas, and liver (right and left gastric arteries, 
 and hepatic artery), and an anterior mesenteric, which gives off a short branch 
 to the spleen (lienal artery), a number of branches to the small intestine (intes- 
 tinal arteries), and one or more branches to the large intestine (anterior haemor- 
 rhoidal arteries). 
 
 Posterior to the origin of the coeliaco-mesenteric, the dorsal aorta gives rise 
 to a number of small paired urino genital arteries, which supply mainly the kid- 
 neys, but branch also to the fat bodies, and reproductive organs and their ducts. 
 In the same region, one to four pairs of small lumbar arteries arise from the aorta 
 and pass to the dorsal body wall. 
 
 The dorsal aorta next gives off a single median branch, the posterior mesenteric, 
 to the large intestine, and shortly after this bifurcates into two large arteries, the 
 common iliac arteries. Each common iliac soon gives rise to two branches. One 
 of these, the epigastrico-Desical artery, branches almost immediately into an 
 epigastric artery for the muscles of the lateral and ventral abdominal walls, and 
 a recto-vesical artery for the urinary bladder and the rectum. The other is a 
 small artery to the urinogenital ducts. The iliac then supplies a small femoral 
 artery for the muscles of the thigh and continues down the leg as a large vessel, 
 the sciatic artery. 
 
 Make an outline of the frog and its organs and put in the arteries, showing 
 their proper location and distribution. All of the arteries mentioned can be 
 readily found in well-injected specimens. Omit those that you could not identify. 
 
 Be able to trace the blood from any part to any other part. 
 
 F. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: THE STRUCTURE OF THE HEART 
 
 The four parts of the heart, the sinus venosus, the auricles, the ventricle, and 
 the conus arteriosus, have already been noted. Draw the heart from the side; 
 show these parts. 
 
 The dissection of the heart should not be attempted except upon a well- 
 preserved, uninjured heart. The heart of injected specimens cannot be used 
 (Holmes, pp. 64-68). With a fine scissors remove the ventral wall of the ven- 
 tricle, the ventral wall of each auricle, and the ventral wall of the conus arteriosus 
 
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 as far as the forking of the trunci arteriosi. If desirable the heart may be removed 
 from the body by cutting through the aortic arches and the sinus venosus; then 
 mount the heart under water in a small wax-bottomed dish. Note the thick 
 spongy walls of the ventricle and its small central cavity. Find the openings 
 of the two auricles into the ventricle. The walls of the auricles are quite thin 
 and the right one is considerably larger than the left. The large opening of 
 the sinus venosus into the right auricle is readily found. The conus arteriosus 
 contains a conspicuous structure, the spiral valve, which almost fills its cavity. 
 It is a fold, bent slightly into an S-shape, extending lengthwise in the conus, its 
 dorsal edge attached along the entire extent of the dorsal wall of the conus, its 
 ventral margin free. In the cross-section of the truncus arteriosus observe the 
 two partitions which divide it into three channels, one for each aortic arch. 
 The ventral channel leads to the carotid arch, and the middle one to the systemic 
 arch; the beginnings of these two channels are in the conus arteriosus in front 
 of the termination of the spiral valve, so that the blood to reach them must flow 
 over the cuplike widened anterior end of the valve. The dorsal channel of the 
 truncus arteriosus passes into the pulmo-cutaneous arch; it starts farther down 
 in the conus below the anterior end of the spiral valve, so that blood reaches it 
 by flowing over the free ventral edge of the valve. Read Holmes, pp. 277-79, 
 and understand the function of the spiral valve and the partitions in the truncus 
 arteriosus in directing the venous blood into the pulmo-cutaneous arch, mixed 
 blood into the systemic arches, and the arterial blood into the carotid arch. 
 Draw the dissection from the ventral side. 
 
 G. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 
 
 Remove the skin and clean away all muscles from the median dorsal region 
 of the animal. With a fine scissors and forceps remove the roof of the skull 
 bit by bit, being careful to keep the point of the scissors well up against the 
 bone so as not to jab into the soft brain tissue. First cut into the bone, then 
 pull away the pieces with the forceps. Remove the roof as far forward as the 
 nares. Next work posteriorly in the same way. Cut through the neural arches 
 of the vertebrae by lateral cuts, and pull out the central piece with the forceps. 
 The brain and cord should bt well exposed before their study is undertaken 
 (Holmes, chap, xvi, pp. 283-95). 
 
 i. Dorsal aspect of the brain (Holmes, pp. 291-95). The brain is covered 
 with a pigmented membrane, the pia mater, which is particularly abundant in 
 the posterior part of the brain, where it is very vascular and fills a triangular 
 cavity, the fourth ventricle. The pia mater should be removed from the fourth 
 ventricle. 
 
 The most anterior part of the brain comprises a pair of rounded olfactory 
 lobes, which are separated from each other by a faint median groove. Each 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 47 
 
 olfactory lobe continues forward to the nasal sac as the olfactory nerve. The 
 posterior boundary of the olfactory lobes is marked by a transverse groove which 
 separates them from the next part of the brain, a pair of long oval bodies, the 
 cerebral hemispheres. Just behind the cerebral hemispheres is a depressed region, 
 the diencephalon or thalamencephalon, from which a delicate stalklike body, the 
 pineal body, ascends dorsally to the brow spot. The pineal body is almost always 
 torn off in removing the skull and hence cannot be seen. Posterior to the 
 diencephalon are the two rounded optic lobes. Just behind them and forming 
 the anterior wall of the triangular cavity of the fourth ventricle is the cerebellum. 
 This is much smaller in the frog than in most other vertebrates. The region 
 of the brain posterior to the cerebellum, and forming the floor and lateral walls 
 of the fourth ventricle is known as the medulla oblongata. It narrows posteriorly 
 until it becomes of the same width as the spinal cord with which it is continuous. 
 
 2. THe cranial nerves (Holmes, p. 295). Ten pairs of nerves spring from 
 the lateral and ventral surfaces of the brain but most of these cannot be found 
 unless very great care is exercised in dissecting. The first pair of cranial nerves, 
 the olfactory, has already been noted arising from the olfactory lobes. The 
 second pair of nerves, the optic nerves, springs from the ventral surface of the 
 diencephalon, and may be seen by gently pushing this part of the brain to one 
 side. Each penetrates the adjacent eyeball where it forms the retina. The 
 third, fourth, and sixth nerves are motor nerves to the muscles of the eyeball 
 and are too small to be found. The fifth, seventh, and eighth nerves arise close 
 together from the side of the anterior end of the medulla, and may usually be 
 seen by gently pressing back this region. The ninth and tenth arise together 
 from the side of the medulla a short distance behind the eighth. 
 
 3. The spinal cord. The spinal cord is continuous with the medulla oblongata 
 and occupies a cavity within the vertebral column known as the neural canal. 
 Posteriorly the spinal cord tapers into a fine thread, the filum terminate, which 
 occupies the cavity of the urostyle and can be seen by cutting off the dorsal half 
 of the urostyle. The spinal cord is slightly enlarged opposite the fore limb 
 (brachial enlargement) and again anterior to the filum terminale (sciatic enlarge- 
 ment). These swellings are, of course, caused by the origin of the nerves to the 
 limbs at those regions. In the median dorsal line of the cord is a longitudinal 
 groove, the dorsal fissure. In a well-dissected specimen, the dorsal roots of the 
 spinal nerves may be seen arising at regular intervals from the dorso-lateral 
 region of the cord. The posterior roots run within the neural canal for a little 
 distance alongside the spinal cord before passing out of the vertebral column. 
 
 Draw the brain and cord from the dorsal side. 
 
 4. Ventral aspect of the brain. Cut across the cord back of the medulla 
 oblongata, and carefully remove the brain, leaving the cord in place. In remov- 
 ing the brain note and cut through the more conspicuous of the cranial nerves. 
 Study the ventral surface of the brain and identify the parts already noted on 
 
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 the dorsal side. On the ventral side of the diencephalon observe the crossing 
 of the optic nerves, after their origin from the diencephalon; this crossing is 
 called the optic chiasma. Just behind the optic chiasma is a bilobed extension 
 of the floor of the diencephalon, called the inferior lobes or infundibulum; and 
 to this is attached a rounded glandular body, the hypophysis, which fits into a 
 depression in the floor of the skull, and is usually, therefore, torn off in removing 
 the brain. The hypophysis is a gland of internal secretion. 
 Draw the ventral surface of the brain. 
 
 5. The ventricles of the brain. The brain like the spinal cord is hollow, its 
 cavity being continuous with the central canal of the cord. The cavities of the 
 brain are known as ventricles. Make a median sagittal section of the brain, 
 float it under water, and identify the ventricles. See also Holmes, Fig. 83 
 (p. 292), and Fig. 84 (p. 293). The cavity of the medulla oblongata is the largest 
 and most posterior of the ventricles ; it is called the fourth ventricle and has a 
 thin vascular roof which has already been removed. From the fourth ventricle 
 a narrow passage, the iter or aqueduct of Sylvius, extends forward below the optic 
 lobes. Each optic lobe has a cavity, the optic ventricle. The ventricle of the 
 diencephalon which extends downward into the infundibulum is the third ven- 
 tricle. The first and second ventricles, also called the lateral ventricles, are 
 inside of the cerebral hemispheres, which should be cut open to see them. The 
 narrow passage which connects the lateral with the third ventricles is known as 
 the foramen of Monro. 
 
 6. The spinal nerves (Holmes, pp. 89-91). Turn the frog ventral side up, 
 and remove all the viscera. Observe the spinal nerves passing out symmetrically 
 from the sides of the vertebral column. They arise from the cord and leave the 
 neural canal by way of openings (intervertebral foramina) between the vertebrae. 
 There are ten pairs of spinal nerves, each of which divides immediately into a 
 small dorsal branch and a larger ventral branch. It is the ventral branch which 
 one sees running on the inside of the dorsal body wall. At the point of exit of 
 each spinal nerve from the intervertebral foramen is a white mass, the calcareous 
 body, which surrounds and conceals a ganglion. 
 
 Identify and observe the course of each of the spinal nerves. The first is 
 quite small; it arises between the first and second vertebrae and innervates the 
 tongue and muscles of the hyoid. The second is a large stout nerve which 
 innervates the muscles of the fore limb. It is joined by branches of the first 
 and third spinal nerves, and all of these together form a network which is called 
 the brachial plexus. The presence of such a plexus indicates the compound 
 origin of the muscles of the limb. The fourth, fifth, and sixth nerves are small 
 and pass somewhat obliquely backward to supply the skin and muscles of the 
 body wall. The seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth nerves arise close together, 
 run almost directly backward, and are united with one another by cross branches 
 to form the sciatic plexus from which nerves go to the muscles and skin of the 
 
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 hind limbs. The small tenth nerve arises from the urostyle, and innervates 
 mainly the cloaca, and urinary bladder. 
 
 Draw the spinal nerves as seen on the dorsal body wall. 
 
 7. The roots of the spinal nerves. Select one of the largest spinal nerves 
 (as the eighth), and trace it carefully into the vertebral column, cutting away the 
 vertebrae. Pull off the calcareous body and find within it a small brown object, 
 the dorsal or spinal ganglion. (The term "ganglion" means a mass of nerve 
 cell bodies lying outside of the brain and spinal cord.) Tracing the nerve farther 
 in toward the cord note that it divides into two branches or roots, one of which 
 is attached to the dorso-lateral region of the cord, the other to the ventro- 
 lateral region. These roots are designated as the dorsal and ventral roots. The 
 dorsal root springs from the dorsal horn of the gray matter of the cord; it carries 
 sensory fibers which arise from the nerve cells located in the dorsal ganglion. 
 The ventral root takes its origin from the ventral horn of the gray matter, from 
 the large motor cells which have already been seen in that location, and carries 
 motor fibers to the muscles. The two roots meet just beyond the spinal ganglion, 
 which is on the dorsal root, and the spinal nerve thus formed soon divides into 
 dorsal and ventral branches or rami, as noted in the preceding section. Each 
 ramus carries both sensory and motor fibers and supplies both skin and muscles; 
 and the ventral ramus is further connected by the ramus communicans with the 
 sympathetic system. 
 
 Make a diagram to show the origin of a spinal nerve from the cord. 
 
 8. General remarks on the function of the brain and cord. The possibility 
 that any organism born into the conditions of life as they exist upon the earth 
 will survive depends entirely upon its ability to perceive and respond effectively 
 to those conditions. We have already found that this capacity for the percep- 
 tion of conditions in the environment and for responding to them is vested in the 
 nervous system. The perceiving part of the apparatus is the sense organs, 
 which comprise the eye, ear, and nose, taste organs in the mouth, organs of 
 touch, pressure, pain, temperature, chemical sense, etc., in the skin, and sensory 
 organs in the viscera. The responding part of the apparatus is the brain and 
 cord through the motor nerves to muscles and glands. 
 
 In a prone animal moving with one end forward, that end will come first in 
 contact with the factors of the environment and hence will naturally- come to 
 be the place where the most important and specialized sense organs are located. 
 Further, the part of the nervous system connected with these important sense 
 organs must become enlarged to accommodate the numerous impulses sent in 
 from them, and must thus acquire dominance over the rest of the central nervous 
 system. We may thus account for the origin of the head and brain, which 
 structures indeed made their appearance in the simplest bilateral animals. 
 
 We therefore find that the brain of a relatively simple vertebrate like the 
 frog consists in large part of centers for the reception of the chief sensations. 
 
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 Thus the olfactory lobes, the larger part of the cerebral hemispheres, and the 
 dorsal and ventral parts of the diencephalon are olfactory. The lateral walls of 
 the diencephalon and part of the optic lobes are the receptive regions for vision. 
 Another part of the optic lobes and the dorsal margins of the anterior end of the 
 medulla are the centers of hearing. The general sensations from the skin of the 
 body are received into the dorsal regions of the spinal cord, which extend forward 
 to the same regions of the medulla, where similar sensations from the head also 
 enter. The dorsal and lateral regions of the medulla, therefore, together with 
 the same regions of the optic lobes and diencephalon are centers of general 
 sensations. Taste and other visceral sensations are received in the ventro- 
 lateral regions of the medulla. The ventral portions of the brain from the 
 optic lobes posteriorly and down the whole length of the cord in the ventral 
 horns of the gray matter are the regions of origin of motor impulses. 
 
 Obviously these primary sense centers must be connected with the motor 
 nerve cells from which nerves go to the muscles in order that an appropriate 
 response may be made to the conditions in the world outside which are reported 
 to the brain. Thus all the sense centers form intricate connections with motor 
 centers for the production of motor actions. The spinal cord and part of the 
 medulla are pathways for sensations from the body below the head to reach 
 the brain and for motor impulses to reach the body muscles. They also carry 
 out many reflex actions, i.e., actions resulting from direct connections of sensory 
 impulses with motor responses without the aid of the brain. The medulla is 
 further an important center of visceral functions, such as respiration, heart- 
 beat, etc. 
 
 A still further mechanism is, however, required. This is a mechanism for 
 the association and correlation of sensory information and for deciding between 
 simultaneous ones. Thus suppose an animal smells some food and sees an enemy 
 simultaneously. It must make a choice between the motor reactions which 
 would result from each of these sensations if they were received separately. It 
 must act "intelligently" in such situations. Such centers of correlation are 
 naturally poorly developed in simple animals and become more and more promi- 
 nent in the brain as the complexity of the animal increases. In the frog correla- 
 tion is affected mainly in the optic lobes and diencephalon and to a slight extent 
 in the cerebral hemispheres. Hence the complete removal of the cerebral 
 hemispheres in the frog is of little consequence to the animal, except that the 
 sense of smell is lost (see Holmes, p. 309). In higher vertebrates the cerebral 
 hemispheres become more and more important as the seat of correlation, 
 co-ordination, and intelligent action. 
 
 The cerebellum is also a co-ordination center, but one not associated with 
 consciousness. It co-ordinates, reinforces, and exercises general control over 
 motor movements, including the maintenance of equilibrium. 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 51 
 
 H. THE SKELETON 
 
 For this work dried mounted skeletons will be provided. (The student may 
 prepare a skeleton as follows: Remove all possible flesh and organs from a 
 freshly killed frog, and dip what remains from time to time in hot water, brush- 
 ing away the remaining flesh until the bones are cleaned. Too liberal use of hot 
 water or boiling will cause the bones to fall apart.) 
 
 1. General considerations on the skeleton. The skeleton, or hard parts 
 of the body, is generally of two kinds: the external skeleton, or exoskeleton, and 
 the internal skeleton, or endoskeleton. The exoskeleton covers and protects 
 the body and is derived from the skin. Examples are scales, feathers, hair. The 
 frog has no exoskeleton except such as has become fused to the endoskeleton 
 (see below). The endoskeleton is the internal framework of the body, and is 
 composed of cartilage in the embryo which becomes partially converted into 
 bone in the adult frog. Such bone formed in cartilage is known as cartilage 
 bone. Investigation shows that not all the bones of the frog's skeleton have 
 arisen in this way but some have appeared in connective tissue without passing 
 through a cartilage stage. Such bones are called membrane bones, dermal bones, 
 or investing bones. They are produced from the dermis of the skin, and are there- 
 fore not really endoskeleton, but part of the exoskeleton. In the course of 
 evolution these bones, originally scales, sank into the body and attached them- 
 selves so closely to the endoskeleton that they are usually treated in textbooks 
 as parts of the endoskeleton. The clavicle and the superficial bones of the skull 
 and jaws of the frog are membrane bones; all other bones of the skeleton are 
 cartilage bones. 
 
 The skeleton may be divided into an axial part including the skull, the 
 visceral skeleton, and the vertebral column; and an appendicular part consisting 
 of the bones of the limbs, the girdles, and the sternum or breastbone (Holmes, 
 chap, xiii, pp. 229-45). 
 
 2. The vertebral column (Holmes, pp. 237-38). The anterior half of the 
 vertebral column of the frog consists of nine bony rings, the vertebrae; the 
 posterior half is an elongated slender bone, the urostyle. Obtain some isolated 
 vertebrae and identify the following parts: 
 
 a) The neural canal is the cavity in the vertebra. 
 
 b) The centrum or body is the thickened part of the vertebra ventral to the 
 neural canal. It articulates with the centra before and behind it by a ball and 
 socket arrangement. 
 
 c) The neural arch is that portion which arches dorsally over the neural canal. 
 <f) The neural spine is a sharp dorsal projection from the center of the neural 
 
 arch. 
 
 e) The transverse processes are the conspicuous lateral projections extending 
 horizontally outward from the place of junction of centrum and neural arch. 
 
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 /) The zygapophyses are anterior and posterior projections from the neural 
 arch, one in front of and one behind the place of origin of each transverse process. 
 They link successive vertebrae together. 
 
 The first vertebra, or atlas, differs from the others in the absence of the trans- 
 verse processes and the presence of special articulating surfaces for holding the 
 skull. Between the atlas and the skull is a gap which permits the operation of 
 pithing. The transverse processes of the last vertebra articulate with the pelvic 
 girdle, and this vertebra is hence called the sacral vertebra. 
 
 3. The skull and the visceral skeleton. The visceral skeleton includes the 
 upper and lower jaws, the hyoid apparatus, and the cartilages of the larynx. 
 It is so called because originally all of these structures were paired semicircular 
 cartilages, used to support the gills. Since gills are part of the walls of the 
 alimentary canal, the appropriateness of the term "visceral skeleton" becomes 
 apparent. Six such cartilaginous hoops are present in the frog tadpole, of which 
 the first becomes in the adult frog the basis of upper and lower jaws, while the 
 remaining ones undergo remarkable transformations into the hyoid and laryngeal 
 cartilages. The laryngeal cartilages will not be studied. 
 
 The original cartilage skull, forming a case to inclose the brain, fused in front 
 with the olfactory capsules containing the organ of smell, behind with the otic 
 capsules containing the ears, and below with the cartilaginous bars which formed 
 the upper jaw while the similar bars of the lower jaw remained separate and 
 formed a joint with the skull. Part of the cartilage of these structures persists 
 in the adult skull, part is converted into cartilage bones, and both of these are 
 partly concealed by a superficial covering of membrane bones. 
 
 a) Dorsal aspect of the skull and upper jaw (Holmes, chap, xiii, pp. 229-37). 
 Examine the dried skull and note that the membrane bones can be distinguished 
 easily from the cartilage bones by their lighter color, smoother surfaces, thin 
 and flat shapes, and more superficial position. The cartilage has of course dis- 
 appeared in a dried skull. The skull proper forms the central region, while the 
 lower jaw, which is fused to the skull, appears as an arch on each side and in 
 front of the skull. A large gap, the orbit, which holds the eye, is thus left between 
 skull and jaw. 
 
 The bones of the dorsal side of the skull proper are: 
 
 (1) Nasal bones, two triangular membrane bones just behind the external 
 nares. 
 
 (2) Sphenethmoid bone, a single ring-shaped cartilage bone in the median 
 line behind the nasals. 
 
 (3) Frontoparietal bones, two long flat membrane bones posterior to the 
 sphenethmoid. In other animals the anterior frontal portion is separate from 
 the posterior parietal portion of this bone. 
 
 (4) Exoccipital bones, the two cartilage bones forming the posterior extremity 
 of the skull. They surround a large opening, the foramen magnum, through 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 53 
 
 which the medulla oblongata passes to become continuous with the spinal cord. 
 Ventrally they bear two rounded prominences, the occipital condyles, by which 
 the skull articulates with the atlas. 
 
 (5) Pro-otic bones, the cartilage bones extending laterally from the posterior 
 end of the frontoparietals. They are ossified in the otic capsule and hence inclose 
 the ear. 
 
 The bones of the upper jaw or maxillary arch are : 
 
 (1) Premaxilla, a pair of small membrane bones in front of the external 
 nares. 
 
 (2) Maxilla, the long slender membrane bone forming the greater part of the 
 sides of the jaw. Premaxillae and maxillae bear teeth. 
 
 (3) Quadratojugal, the short slender membrane bone behind the maxilla, not 
 bearing teeth. 
 
 (4) Squamosal, the curious T-shaped membrane bone extending from the 
 posterior end of the quadratojugal to the pro-otic. 
 
 (5) Pterygoid, a three-rayed cartilage bone under the squamosal but visible 
 from the dorsal side. 
 
 (6) The quadrate cartilage lies between the squamosal and the pterygoid and 
 is the place of attachment of the lower jaw to the skull. 
 
 b) Ventral aspect of the skull. The ventral bones of the skull are: 
 
 (1) Vomer, a pair of membrane bones behind the premaxillae, forming the 
 floor of the olfactory capsules and bearing teeth. 
 
 (2) Palatine, two slender cartilage bones extending laterally from just 
 behind the vomerine teeth to the maxillae. 
 
 (3) Parasphenoid, a single long dagger-shaped membrane bone on the ventral 
 surface of the skull, its lateral posterior processes underlying the auditory 
 capsules. The point of the dagger underlies the ventral side of the sphenethmoid 
 ring. 
 
 c) The bones of the lower jaw or mandibular arch. These are: 
 
 (1) Mentomeckelian bones, two small cartilage bones at the tip of the lower 
 jaw. They are ossified in the original cartilage bars (MeckePs cartilage) which 
 were the lower jaw of the tadpole. 
 
 (2) Dentary, a short membrane bone behind the preceding on the outer surface 
 of the jaw. 
 
 (3) Angulosplenial, the long slender membrane bone forming the greater 
 part of the jaw. Its anterior end is under the dentary. Its outer surface behind 
 the dentary is grooved. In this groove is located in life MeckePs cartilage, which 
 articulates with the quadrate cartilages of the skull. 
 
 d) Hyoid apparatus. This portion of the skeleton is usually lacking in dried 
 material. Most of its parts have already been seen during the dissection of the 
 frog and should be examined again and further exposed in your preserved speci- 
 men (Holmes, p. 324). 
 
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 (1) The body of the hyoid is the flat plate of cartilage in the floor of the buccal 
 cavity. Its concave anterior margin receives the base of the tongue. Its 
 lateral anterior corners have short alary processes, and its posterior corners 
 poster o-lateral processes. 
 
 (2) The anterior horns or cornua of the hyoid are the long, slender rods which 
 curve back from the anterior margin of the body to the pro-otic bones of the 
 skull. 
 
 (3) The thyroid processes or posterior horns are the two processes which 
 diverge from the posterior margin inclosing the laryngeal chamber between them. 
 They are ossified while the other parts of the hyoid are cartilaginous. 
 
 (4) The columella, the small slender bone in the middle ear, one end of which 
 is attached near the middle of the tympanic membrane, is probably a part of the 
 hyoid apparatus. 
 
 4. Bones of the pectoral girdle (Holmes, p. 238). The pectoral girdle forms 
 a bony arch for the support of the fore limbs. It is incomplete dorsally and has 
 no connection with the vertebral column. Ventrally its two halves are united 
 by the interposition of the sternum. Each half of the girdle consists of: 
 
 a) Suprascapula, the most dorsal bone, large and flat with a cartilage along 
 its free dorsal border. 
 
 b) Scapula, the bone ventral to the preceding and containing a cup-shaped 
 cavity, the glenoid fossa, in which the long bone of the upper arm is inserted. 
 
 c) Clavicle, the anterior bone of the two which compose the ventral aspect 
 of the girdle. It is a membrane bone, the only one in the skeleton outside of the 
 skull and jaws. 
 
 d) Procoracoid, the cartilage which is covered over by the clavicle and which 
 fails to ossify because its function is usurped by the clavicle. 
 
 e) Coracoid, the posterior of the two ventral bones. It takes part in the 
 glenoid fossa. 
 
 5. The sternum (Holmes, p. 240). The sternum is a chain of bones and 
 cartilages between the two ventral ends of the halves of the pectoral girdle. 
 
 a) Episternum, the rounded catilage forming the anterior extremity of the 
 sternum. 
 
 b) Omosternum, the bone behind the preceding. 
 
 c) Epicoracoids, the cartilages between the medial ends of the coracoid bones. 
 
 d) Sternum proper or mesosternum, bony rod behind the coracoids. 
 
 e) Xiphisternum, terminal rounded cartilage. 
 
 6. Bones of the pelvic girdle (Holmes, pp. 242-43). This is the bony girdle 
 which supports the hind limbs. It is complete dorsally, forming a joint with the 
 transverse processes of the last vertebra. The bones of each half of the pelvic 
 girdle are: 
 
 a) Ilium, the long scythe-shaped dorsal bone which extends forward parallel 
 to the urostyle to articulate with the transverse processes of the sacral vertebra. 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 55 
 
 b) Pubis, the anterior portion of the semicircular crest which projects 
 ventrally from that part of the pelvic girdle which lies medially between the 
 heads of the two long thigh bones. 
 
 c) Ischium, the posterior portion of the crest. 
 
 The two pubes and the two ischia are completely fused in the median ventral 
 line producing the projecting crest mentioned above. These unions are named 
 the pubic and ischial symphyses. For the exact boundaries between the three 
 bones of the girdle see Holmes, Fig. 69, p. 242. The cuplike cavity on each side 
 of the girdle which receives the head of the thigh bone is called the acetabulum. 
 
 7. Bones of the limbs. The skeleton of the fore and hind limbs is evidently 
 built upon the same plan, and the bones evidently correspond. The two limbs 
 will therefore be considered together (Holmes, pp. 241, 243, and Fig. 63, p. 230). 
 
 a) The upper part of each limb consists of a long bone. In the fore limb 
 this is the humerus; in the hind limb, the femur. The humerus bears a conspicu- 
 ous crest, the deltoid ridge, so named because the deltoid muscle is inserted there. 
 
 b) The next section of the limb is generally composed of two bones, but in 
 the frog these two are in the case of both limbs fused into one. This is the radio- 
 ulna in the fore limb, tibio-fibula in the hind limb. A longitudinal groove along 
 the center of both surfaces of each of these bones indicates the place of fusion of 
 the two originally separate components, the radius and ulna in the forearm, the 
 tibia and fibula in the shank. Radius and tibia correspond and are on the thumb 
 side (preaxial side) of the limb; ulna and fibula are on the little finger side 
 (postaxial). 
 
 c) Wrist and ankle constitute the next section of the limbs. The wrist or 
 carpus consists of six small bones in two rows. These are generally difficult to 
 make out in ordinary preparations of the skeleton. The ankle or tarsus is 
 unusually elongated in the frog and consists chiefly of two relatively large bones, 
 the astragalus on the preaxial side and the calcaneum on the postaxial side. 
 Between these and the foot, two or three minute bones occur. 
 
 d) The palm of the hand and sole of the foot each consist of five slender 
 diverging bones, the metacarpals and metatarsals, respectively. The first meta- 
 carpal is rudimentary. 
 
 e) The fingers and toes are supported by small bones, called phalanges. 
 
 I. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM 
 
 The frog has two types of muscles, the involuntary muscles found in the 
 viscera, and the voluntary ones attached either directly or indirectly to the 
 skeleton. The arrangement of the muscles of the viscera has already been seen 
 in the study of the microscopic structure of the organs. They are commonly 
 arranged in cylindrical tubes, in which the fibers run in either a circular or a 
 longitudinal direction. The voluntary muscles, on the other hand, have no 
 
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 such simple arrangement, and a study of each one is necessary to understand 
 its action. The term "muscular system" generally refers to the voluntary 
 muscles. 
 
 For the study of the muscles frogs which have been preserved for some 
 time in formalin should be employed. Those in which the viscera have been 
 dissected are usable for this purpose. Remove the skin completely. 
 
 1. Parts and relations of a muscle. Examine the large gastrocnemius muscle 
 on the back of the shank as an illustration of a typical muscle. Identify its 
 parts as follows: 
 
 a) The fascia is the shining tough connective tissue membrane which incloses 
 the muscle. 
 
 b) The tendon is the shining tough band or cord at each end of the muscle. 
 It is produced by the extension and concentration of the fascia beyond the 
 fleshy part. By means of tendons, muscles are firmly attached to bones, other 
 tendons, or other fixed structures. Tendons may be of many shapes, depending 
 upon the shape of the muscle of which they are a part. 
 
 c) The belly is the fleshy part of the muscle. 
 
 d) The origin is the more fixed point of attachment of the muscle, i.e., the 
 part which does not move when the muscle contracts. The gastrocnemius has 
 two points of origin, or heads, as they are often called, at the upper end of its 
 (apparently) dorsal surface. The larger of these attaches the main mass of the 
 muscle to a tendon which passes from the distal end of the femur to the upper 
 end of the tibio-fibula; the smaller is a slender tendon which joins the general 
 tendon passing over the knee. With a forceps loosen the other muscles from 
 about the heads of the gastrocnemius and verify these points. 
 
 e) The insertion is the more movable point of attachment of the muscle, 
 i.e., the part which is moved by the action of the muscle. The lower end of 
 the gastrocnemius tapers to a strong tendon (the famous tendon of Achilles), 
 which passes over and is attached to the ankle bones and then becomes continuous 
 with the broad plantar fascia which covers the sole of the foot. 
 
 /) The action of a muscle is a description of its function. The gastrocnemius 
 through its insertion on the ankle can bend the entire leg below the knee up 
 against the thigh (flexion of the leg) ; through its continuity with the plantar 
 fascia it can straighten the foot (extension of the foot). Test these actions by 
 pulling on the gastrocnemius. 
 
 2. General account of the muscles of the frog (Holmes, chap, xiv, pp. 246- 
 57). We shall undertake to study only the superficial and easily identifiable 
 muscles, particularly those which are of interest in the physiology of the frog. 
 Most of the following muscles have the same names, positions, and action as 
 in man and other vertebrates, and the statements about them are hence of general 
 application. No attempt is made to give all the details of the origin and insertion . 
 
THE SPECIAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG 57 
 
 In studying muscles separate each one from its fellows as carefully as possible 
 with a forceps or probe, and determine the origin, insertion, and general action 
 of each. 
 
 a) Muscles of the lower jaw: Pull off all tissue between the eye and tympanic 
 membrane. Pull off the tympanic membrane, identifying underneath it a circu- 
 lar cartilage, the tympanic ring, resting upon the squamosal bone. Between 
 the tympanic ring and the eye a mass of muscles will be found passing to the 
 lower jaw, on the inner side of the posterior end of the upper jaw. Remove the 
 end of the upper jaw (quadratojugal bone) so as to reveal the complete course 
 of these muscles. The following three may be readily identified: 
 
 (1) The temporal muscle arises from the side of the skull and passes down 
 between the eye and the tympanic ring to be inserted on the posterior end of the 
 lower jaw. Action, closes the mouth (elevator of the jaw). 
 
 (2) The masseters originate from the tympanic ring and adjacent bones and 
 are inserted on the lower jaw behind the temporal. Action, same as preceding; 
 also stretch the tympanic membrane. 
 
 (3) The depressor mandibuli is a muscle of the jaw located behind the 
 tympanic ring. It arises from the tympanic ring and from the general fascia 
 of the back (dorsal fascia) and passes to the extreme posterior tip of the lower 
 jaw, where it is fastened to Meckel's cartilage. Action, opens the mouth 
 (depressor of the jaw) and stretches the tympanic membrane. Pull the lower jaw 
 fully open to see more clearly the arrangement of these three muscles. 
 
 b) Muscles of the dorsal side of the trunk: This portion of the body is more 
 or less covered by the dorsal fascia, a strong membrane fastened to the ilium 
 bones, the neural arches of the vertebrae, and the skull, and furnishing a place 
 of insertion of many muscles. Easily identifiable muscles of the back beginning 
 behind the ear are: 
 
 (1) The dorsalis scapulae is the anterior half of the large triangular mass 
 behind and partially covered by the depressor mandibuli. Origin, from the 
 dorsal margin of the suprascapula; remaining course like the next. 
 
 (2) The latissimus dorsi is the posterior portion of the triangular mass. 
 Origin, dorsal fascia; unites with the preceding to be inserted on the deltoid 
 ridge of the humerus; action, raises the fore limb upward and backward (abduc- 
 tion of the limb). 
 
 (3) The longissimus dorsi is the long muscle extending from the anterior 
 third of the urostyle forward to the skull. Remove the dorsal fascia and pre- 
 ceding muscles to see its full course. It is attached at many places to the 
 vertebrae. Action, raises the head and straightens the back. 
 
 (4) The coccygeo-sacralis runs diagonally from the urostyle just behind the 
 insertion of the preceding muscle to the transverse process of the sacral vertebra. 
 Pull off the remainder of the dorsal fascia to see it. Action, draws the back 
 
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 nearer the urostyle or vice versa when both muscles of the two sides act together, 
 or turns the back to one side, when acting singly. 
 
 (5) The coccygeo-iliacus is the diagonal muscle parallel to and behind the 
 preceding running from the posterior two-thirds of the urostyle to the ilium. 
 Action, fixes the urostyle with respect to the pelvic girdle. 
 
 c) Muscles of the sides of the abdomen: 
 
 (1) The external oblique is the large muscle covering the sides of the abdomen 
 extending from the dorsal fascia and the ilium to the linea alba. Its fibers run 
 diagonally backward. Action, to support and reduce the abdominal cavity, and 
 to cause exhalation in lung breathing. 
 
 (2) The transverse (including the internal oblique of other vertebrates) lies 
 under the preceding, its fibers running diagonally forward. Strip off the external 
 oblique cautiously to see it. Relations and function similar to preceding. 
 
 d) Muscles of the ventral side of the trunk: 
 
 (1) The rectus abdominis is the flat segmented muscle lying on both sides 
 of the median ventral line, extending from the pubic symphysis to the sternum. 
 Action, supports the abdominal contents, and fixes the sternum in place. 
 
 (2) The pectoral muscle is the large muscle of the anterior ventral part of the 
 body. It arises from the various parts of the sternum and from the lateral 
 border of the fascia of the rectus abdominis muscle. It is inserted on the deltoid 
 ridge of the humerus. Action, draws the arm toward the ventral side and leg 
 (adductor of the arm) and expands the abdominal cavity. 
 
 e) Muscles of the floor of the mouth and the hyoid apparatus: 
 
 (1) The mylohyoid is a thin sheet of muscle running crosswise from one half 
 of the lower jaw to the other along their whole extent. It forms the outermost 
 layer of the buccal floor and its function is to raise this floor in the breathing 
 movements. 
 
 (2) The submental muscle. Cut through the mylohyoid muscle in its median 
 ventral line and deflect the two halves. Under it at the very anterior tip of the 
 lower jaw is the small submental muscle. Its contraction pushes the sublingual 
 tubercle upward against the premaxillary bones of the upper jaw and thereby 
 closes the external nares in lung respiration. 
 
 (3) The geniohyoid muscle comprises the longitudinal bands revealed by the 
 removal of the mylohyoid, consisting of medial and lateral portions arising 
 under the submental muscle and lateral to it from the lower jaw, and extending 
 to the postero-lateral processes of hyoid and the body of the hyoid as far as the 
 forking of the thyroid processes. Action, pulls the hyoid apparatus powerfully 
 forward, thus raising the floor of the buccal cavity in respiration; also helps 
 to swallow, to open the mouth, to lower the tip of the jaw, thus opening the 
 nares, and to move the tongue. 
 
 (4) The sternohyoid is a continuation forward of the rectus abdominis, 
 extending from the underside of the coracoid and clavicle to the body of the 
 
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 hyoid. It is readily seen when the pectoral girdle is lifted up. It and a small 
 muscle lateral to it (omohyoid) exert a pull upon the body of the hyoid, causing 
 it to bulge outward, and hence lower the floor of the buccal cavity in breathing. 
 Their action is thus the opposite of that of the preceding muscles. 
 
 (5) The petrohyoids are several small muscles under the sterno- and omo- 
 hyoids extending from the otic capsule to the sides of the hyoid apparatus. 
 They raise the hyoid apparatus and hence the floor of the buccal cavity in 
 respiration, acting in antagonism to the preceding muscle, and by their com- 
 pressing effect upon the larynx and pharynx are of great importance in swallowing 
 food and air. 
 
 /) Muscles of the tongue: 
 
 (1) The hyoglossus is the conspicuous muscle in the median ventral line of 
 the throat under the geniohyoid. Each half of it originates at the posterior 
 end of the thyroid process of the hyoid, extends forward covering this process, 
 meets its fellow where the processes spring from the body of the hyoid. The 
 muscle thus formed runs forward in contact with the body of the hyoid up to the 
 base of the tongue into which it disappears. It is the retractor of the tongue 
 (draws it back into the mouth after use). 
 
 (2) The genioglossus is a small but thick muscle lying in front of the anterior 
 end of the hyoglossus and originating from the lower jaw under the submental 
 muscle. It is the protractor of the tongue (throws it forward). 
 
 g) Muscles of the thigh: The thigh presents apparent dorsal and ventral sides 
 and anterior and posterior surfaces. These are not really such because the leg 
 of the frog has been twisted from the primitive vertebrate position. The 
 ventral surface is really anterior and hence more correctly called preaxial; and the 
 dorsal surface is posterior or postaxial. Anterior was originally dorsal and pos- 
 terior ventral. However, in order to simplify the following description, the same 
 names will be applied as for other parts of the body, according to the apparent 
 positions. Separate all of the muscles of the thigh from each other before 
 proceeding. 
 
 (1) The triceps femoris is the great muscle which covers the whole anterior 
 part of the thigh, its powerful tendon passing over the knee to the tibio-fibula. 
 It has three origins or heads and consists of three parts. The ventral part 
 (vastus internus or crural] arises from the borders of the acetabulum. The small 
 middle portion (tensor fasciae latae) originates on the ilium and ends in the 
 fascia (fascia lata), which covers the triceps femoris. The dorsal part is the 
 vastus externus or glutens magnus and arises from the side of the posterior end 
 of the crest of the ilium. The triceps femoris is the great extensor of the shank, 
 and also may draw the leg up against the body (abduction). 
 
 (2) The iliacus muscles are those which extend from a considerable part of 
 the crest of the ilium between the tensor fasciae latae and the vastus externus 
 to the femur. They are abductors of the leg. 
 
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 (3) The ileo-fibularis is the slender muscle next to the vastus externus on 
 the dorsal side of the thigh. It extends from the ilium to the upper end of the 
 tibio-fibula, draws the thigh dorsaily, and flexes the shank. 
 
 (4) The semimembranosus is the posterior muscle of the dorsal side of the 
 thigh. It arises from the ischial symphysis, is inserted on the tibio-fibula, bends 
 the shank, and draws the leg toward the median line (adduction). 
 
 (5) The gracilis major and minor (rectus internus major and minor in Holmes, 
 Fig. 70, p. 249) are the posterior muscles of the ventral side of the thigh on the 
 other side of the leg from the preceding. The minor is small and the most 
 posterior one. Both extend from the ischium to the knee and have the same 
 action as the preceding muscle. 
 
 (6) The adductor magnus is the muscle next anterior to the gracilis major 
 on the ventral side. Most of it is concealed by gracilis major and the muscle 
 to be mentioned next. It originates on the ischial and pubic symphyses and is 
 inserted on the femur. It adducts the thigh and leg. 
 
 (7) The sartorius is the flat thin muscle crossing the lower end of the adductor 
 magnus. It arises on the pubic symphysis and joins the general tendon over the 
 knee. Action, bends the shank and aducts the thigh. 
 
 (8) The adductor longus is a thin flat muscle under the sartorius but generally 
 peeping out along the latter's anterior border. It originates on the ilium, joins 
 and acts with the adductor magnus. 
 
 (9) The semitendinosus is a muscle of peculiar shape under the gracilis major, 
 which should be removed to see it. It has two separate tendinous heads from 
 the ischium and two separate bellies, uniting to one tendon fastened to the 
 upper end of the tibio-fibula. It acts like the gracilis major. 
 
 ti) Muscles of the shank: 
 
 (1) The gastrocnemius has been sufficiently described. 
 
 (2) The peroneus is the only other muscle on the dorsal aspect of the shank. 
 It extends from the general tendon over the knee to the lower end of the tibio- 
 fibula and the ankle. It extends and twists the foot and brings the shank up 
 against the thigh, as in swimming and leaping movements. 
 
 (3) The tibialis muscles are the small muscles of the shank lying next to the 
 bone. There are three of them. The tibialis anticus longus covers the anterior 
 surface of the tibio-fibula; it arises by a slender tendon from the lower end of the 
 femur and soon divides into two bellies, which are attached by slender tendons 
 to the ankle bones. Action, bends the ankle. Beneath the lower part of this 
 muscle is the small tibialis anticus brevis, originating on the middle of the tibio- 
 fibula, and inserted on the ankle, which it also flexes. The tibialis posticus is a 
 long slim muscle on the ventral aspect of the shank, between the gastrocnemius 
 and the tibio-fibula, to which it is attached along its entire length. It is likewise 
 inserted on the ankle, which it flexes and twists. 
 
 (4) The extensor cruris is a small muscle on the anterior aspect of the shank, 
 lying next to the upper two-thirds of the tibio-fibula and in contact dorsaily 
 
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 with the tibialis anticus longus. It originates on the femur and straightens the 
 shank in the leaping and swimming movements. 
 
 J. GENERAL ANATOMICAL PRINCIPLES 
 
 Now that we have completed our study of the anatomy of the frog, 
 attention may be called to some of the general principles which underlie its 
 construction. 
 
 1. Principle of bilateral symmetry. The parts of the frog are arranged sym- 
 metrically with reference to a median vertical plane which was named in the 
 early part of this outline the sagittal plane. These parts are either single 
 (unpaired) and lie in the sagittal plane which divides them into identical right 
 and left halves, or they are double (paired) and placed at the same level of the 
 body at equal distances from the sagittal plane. Unpaired structures are the 
 skull and vertebral column, brain and spinal cord, heart, digestive tract, post- 
 caval vein, and dorsal aorta. All the muscles, the appendicular skeleton, the 
 nerves and chief sense organs, most of the blood vessels, the lungs, kidneys, 
 reproductive organs and their ducts are paired. The digestive tract is the chief 
 unsymmetrical system in the body, but it obviously began as a median tube 
 extending from mouth to anus and only subsequently developed the lateral 
 displacements and spiral ceilings which have destroyed its symmetry. 
 
 2. Principle of segmentation. Less readily recognizable is the fact that the 
 structure of the frog is based upon a repetition of parts along the sagittal axis. 
 The frog is thus conceived of as built up of a series of sections, or segments. These 
 segments are similar to each other, each has perfect bilateral symmetry and 
 contains a portion of each of the systems of the body. In the adult frog seg- 
 mentation is best illustrated by the spinal cord and its nerves, the vertebral 
 column, and some parts of the circulatory system (vessels to the body wall, 
 kidneys, and reproductive organs), all of which exhibit obvious repetition along 
 the axis, and to a less extent in the muscles (rectus abdominis and longissimus 
 dorsi muscles). The segmentation is much more complete in the tadpole. 
 
 3. Principle of cephalization. Segmentation is retained most completely 
 in the posterior portion of the body, less so in anterior regions, and is almost 
 entirely lost in the head. Investigation shows, however, that the head like the 
 rest of the body originally consisted of a series of segments, and traces of this 
 segmentation still persist in the lobed condition of the brain, in the cranial nerves, 
 and muscles of the eye. But these segments for the most part fused together 
 in order to produce a structure, the head, which should be more specialized, 
 more efficient than the other parts over which it acquires dominance, just as 
 men and nations combine together for greater efficiency and achievements. 
 Correlated with this dominance of the head and anterior regions is a descent 
 of the viscera posteriorly. Cephalization is the name which is applied to the 
 development and specialization of the head at the expense of the rest of 
 the body. 
 
VI. THE PROCESS OF CELL DIVISION 
 
 All cells arise from pre-existing cells by a process of division. In a few cases 
 this is a simple splitting, or direct division, but in the vast majority of cases the 
 cell divides by a complicated process, known as indirect division, mitosis, or 
 karyo kinesis. In mitosis, both the nucleus and the cytoplasm are involved in a 
 complex and remarkable behavior. 
 
 The following materials have been found to be the most favorable for the 
 study of mitosis: the developing eggs of Ascaris, a parasitic worm; the root tips 
 of plants, chiefly the onion, the hyacinth, or Tradescantia; the developing eggs of 
 fish. A complete outline is provided below for the study of mitosis in the eggs 
 of Ascaris; and following this are brief statements regarding the other materials 
 and the points in which they differ from Ascaris. 
 
 A. MITOSIS IN THE EGGS OF Ascaris 
 
 Ascaris megalocephala, commonly used for this purpose, is a parasitic round 
 worm found in the intestine of the horse. (A description of this animal is given 
 in Hegner, p. 160.) The fertilized eggs pass down the long oviducts of the 
 worm, dividing as they go. Obviously by cutting longitudinal slices through 
 the oviducts at the proper levels, eggs in all stages of division will be obtained. 
 The slides bear such longitudinal slices of the oviduct. 
 
 Examine the slide " A scaris mitosis" with the low power. Identify in each 
 long slice upon the slide the thin walls of the oviduct, composed of large epithelial 
 cells, and its wide cavity completely filled with round objects, each of which is 
 an egg inclosed in a thick shell. Examine one of the round objects with the 
 high power and get a clear idea of what you are looking at. Identify in each 
 one the thick shell inclosing a cavity in which floats the egg cell, considerably 
 smaller than the cavity. The egg has been fertilized and hence possesses two 
 nuclei, its own nucleus and the nucleus from the sperm. Its cytoplasm is 
 vacuolated, that is, appears to contain a number of empty spaces. Examine 
 the egg cells with your highest power and look for each of the following stages 
 of mitosis (see Hegner, p. 29). Considerable searching may be required to find 
 the various stages. Have the assistant help you. As the sections are very thin, 
 only one nucleus may appear, or only parts of the mitotic apparatus may be 
 present. Avoid drawing such partial pictures. Make your drawings large 
 and detailed. 
 
 i. The resting cell. In the so-called resting state, that is, the condition 
 before mitosis begins, the egg presents the same appearance as other cells which 
 we have studied. It contains two 1 nuclei, its own and the sperm nucleus. Each 
 
 'This is the case only in the fertilized egg cell, not in other cells. 
 
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 of these is a rounded vesicle, inclosing the usual chromatin granules and nuclear 
 sap. Draw such a stage in detail. The egg shell may be omitted. 
 
 2. Spireme stage or early prophase. As cell division begins the chromatin 
 granules thicken and mass together, finally uniting into a long, coiled thread, 
 called the spireme, which fills the nucleus. Consider that in sections only pieces 
 of such a coiled thread could appear. Look, therefore, for nuclei containing 
 deeply stained elongated pieces of chromatin. At this time also there appear 
 in the cytoplasm two dense collections of granules, called the asters. Each 
 aster has in its center a black granule, the centrosome, and sends out radiations, 
 the astral rays, into the surrounding cytoplasm. A complete picture of the 
 spireme stage shows the egg and sperm nuclei, containing broken threads of 
 chromatin, in contact with each other, and an aster placed at each end of the 
 plane of contact. You may not be able to find a cell cut in the right plane to 
 show all of these parts simultaneously. Draw in detail the best example you 
 can find. 
 
 3. Late prophase. The spireme thread now breaks into a number of distinct 
 threadlike bodies, each of which is called a chromosome. In Ascaris there are 
 four of these. The nuclear membrane has disappeared and the chromosomes 
 lie free in the cytoplasm. They stain very deeply, and are usually U-shaped. 
 Meantime the asters have drawn farther apart and delicate fibrils extend between 
 them. These fibers are called the spindle, and the whole structure, asters and 
 spindle, is known as the mitotic figure. Draw a cell showing the four chromosomes 
 free in the cytoplasm. 
 
 4. Metaphase. The chromosomes- now arrange themselves in the center 
 of spindle. The mitotic figure is now fully developed and symmetrically placed 
 in the cell. Find a cell which is cut parallel to the spindle and draw, showing 
 spindle, asters, and the band of chromosomes across the center of the spindle. 
 Each chromosome has a longitudinal split at this time, which is generally difficult 
 to see. 
 
 5. Anaphase. Each chromosome next splits in two longitudinally and the 
 two halves separate. One-half of each chromosome moves toward one aster 
 and the other half to the other aster. In this migration the ends of the chromo- 
 somes always point toward the middle of the spindle, so that the dividing cell 
 in this stage contains two groups of chromosomes, each group looking something 
 like the top of a palm tree, with the delicate parallel threads of the spindle 
 stretching between them. Draw. 
 
 6. Telophase. The chromosomes approach the asters, where each group 
 condenses into a mass in which the individual chromosomes are no longer dis- 
 tinguishable. A constriction which gradually pinches the cell into two equal 
 parts is appearing midway between the two chromatin masses. Draw. 
 
 7. Completion of mitosis. The constriction deepens dividing the cell into 
 two cells, the chromatin mass resolves itself into the ordinary nuclear structure, 
 
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 and a nuclear membrane is formed. Two cells each exactly like the original 
 single cell have thus been produced. 
 
 B. MITOSIS IN PLANT ROOT TIPS 
 
 The root tips of plants grow very rapidly in some cases and hence are favorable 
 places for finding all the stages of mitosis. For this purpose longitudinal sections 
 are made through the root tip. The tip is covered by a root cap consisting of 
 older and hardened cells, which is pushed ahead of the real growing region. The 
 dividing cells are therefore found a little distance back from the tip. 
 
 The process of mitosis in these plant cells differs from that seen in the eggs 
 of Ascaris chiefly in that centrosomes and asters are entirely lacking, so that the 
 mitotic figure consists of spindle only. Further differences are: in the resting 
 stages one or more conspicuous nucleoli will be found within the nucleus; the 
 spireme thread is closely coiled so that at this stage the section of the nucleus 
 is packed with small wormlike segments of the spireme; the chromosomes are 
 numerous and less distinctly U-shaped; in the anaphase the resemblance of 
 each group to the tops of palm trees is quite striking; and in the telophase, the 
 new cell wall is not produced by a constriction, but forms in place, apparently 
 in part from a condensation of the spindle fibers. The spindle is rather faint 
 throughout and is seen best only in the late stages of mitosis. 
 
 C. MITOSIS IN THE EGGS OF THE WHITEFISH 
 
 The sections are taken through the dividing eggs of the fish, generally in 
 the early stages when the cells are quite large. Each section shows a number of 
 cells, some of which will be found to be in various stages of mitosis. Differences 
 from Ascaris are that the chromosomes are quite small, very numerous, and 
 rodlike in form; and that a number of minute centrosomes instead of the one 
 large centrosome of Ascaris are present. They are difficult to see. A clear 
 field surrounds the place occupied by the centrosomes, and from this the long 
 fibers of the asters radiate nearly filling the cell. Fish eggs are valuable for the 
 study of mitosis chiefly because the mitotic figure is of such large size and so 
 distinctly fibrillar in them that they present a striking appearance, which closely 
 corresDonds to the textbook representations of this structure. 
 
VH. GENERAL EMBRYOLOGY 
 
 The egg cell, after the sperm cell has penetrated it (process of fertilization) 
 enters on a process of development, the study of which constitutes the subject 
 of embryology. An elementary study of embryonic development will be made 
 first on a simple case like that of the starfish (Asterias), then on the more com- 
 plicated case of the frog (Hegner, pp. 107-111). 
 
 A. DEVELOPMENT OF THE STARFISH 
 
 The fertilized egg first divides by mitosis a number of successive times until 
 a large number of very small cells is produced. This part of development is 
 called cleavage or segmentation. Study slide "Asterias early cleavage." Note 
 that the objects on the slide are not sections but the entire cells. (The cells 
 which exhibit a large clear nucleus containing a black spot [nucleolus] are unfer- 
 tilized eggs). Each egg and embryo is surrounded by a membrane, which is 
 called the fertilization membrane, and is separated from the egg at the time of 
 fertilization. 
 
 1. Two-celled stage. The egg divides into two equal halves, which remain 
 in contact with each other. Find and draw in outline. 
 
 2. Four-celled stage. A second division occurs at right angles but passing 
 through the same axis as the first. Draw. 
 
 3. Eight-celled stage. Each cell of the four-celled stage divides in two 
 transversely at right angles to both the previous divisions, producing eight 
 equal cells in two plates of four cells each. Find and draw. Note that the 
 cells may easily become displaced from their natural position in the making 
 of the slide, and pick out only those that present the normal appearance. 
 
 4. Later cleavage. Examine slide "Asterias late cleavage." The process 
 of division continues until a large number of cells is produced. Meantime, a 
 central cavity appears between the cells. 
 
 5. Blastula. Examine slide "Asterias blastula or larval stages." At the 
 end of the cleavage process, the embryo consists of a single layer of cells sur- 
 rounding a central large cavity, the segmentation cavity. This stage is the 
 blastula. Its form is that of a rubber ball. Find one of these balls of small 
 cells, and focus so as to obtain an optical section, i.e., focus so that the appearance 
 is the same as if you had actually made a section through the center of the 
 blastula. In such a focus the blastula appears as a circular layer of cells, 
 the layer being one cell thick, surrounding a large cavity. Draw the optical 
 section. 
 
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 6. Gastrula. Examine slide "Asterias gastula or larval stages." This 
 stage marks the end of the cleavage stage (although of course cell division con- 
 tinues) and the beginning of differentiation. The gastrula arises from the blastula 
 by the pushing in of one wall just as if one should thrust one's finger into the 
 side of a rubber ball. The gastrula appears on the slide as an oval body, contain- 
 ing a central darker projection. Find one in profile, obtain an optical focus on 
 it and draw. The outer layer of cells is called the ectoderm; the inner layer, 
 which has been pushed in or invaginated, the entoderm; the entire invaginated 
 structure is the archenteron, or primitive intestine; and the opening of the 
 archenteron to the outside is the Uastopore. The next step in development is 
 the formation of a third layer of cells, the mesoderm, between the ectoderm and 
 entoderm, and these three layers are called germ layers because from them all the 
 structures of the adult organism are derived. 
 
 B. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FROG 
 
 Preserved material will be provided for this purpose. Remove the jelly 
 from the eggs. Consult Holmes, chapter v, pp. 89-103. 
 
 1. Cleavage stages. The egg of the frog is much larger than that of the 
 starfish because it contains a considerable quantity of yolk, a semifluid food 
 material containing proteins and fats. The egg is black and white, the black 
 half constituting the animal hemisphere and consisting largely of protoplasm, 
 while the white half, the vegetative hemisphere, holds most of the yolk. Owing 
 to the presence of yolk, the vegetative hemisphere divides more slowly and 
 produces larger cells than the animal hemisphere. 
 
 Study with the low power or with a hand lens and draw two-, four-, and 
 eight-cell stages. Note the inequality in the size of cells of the two hemispheres, 
 and the tendency of the vegetative cells to lag behind, so that six cell stages may 
 occur. 
 
 2. Blastula. After numerous cleavages a blastula is produced consisting of 
 numerous very small black cells, and less numerous larger white cells. Draw. 
 Then with a sharp knife bisect the blastula by a cut which cleaves the black and 
 white hemispheres, and examine the cut surface with a hand lens. Compare 
 with Holmes, Fig. 18 (p. 93), and draw. The blastula of the frog differs from 
 that of the starfish in that its wall is composed of several layers of cells. 
 
 3. Gastrula or yolk plug stage. Owing to the large amount of inert yolk 
 in the white cells, they cannot invaginate as in the case of the starfish, but the 
 gastrula is formed mainly by the growth and extension of a sheet of black cells 
 down over the white cells. The white cells are thus inclosed and become the 
 entoderm. The closure of the black cells over the white is not quite complete, 
 leaving a circular opening, the blastopore, through which some of the white cells 
 protrude, producing a circular white area, the yolk plug. Draw, showing the 
 
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 blastopore and yolk plug. Bisect the gastrula by a cut through the yolk plug 
 and the center of the black hemisphere. Examine the cut surface, compare 
 with Holmes's Figs. 19 and 20 (pp. 94 and 96), and draw. The black cells are 
 the ectoderm, the white cells, the entoderm, and about this time a third layer, 
 the mesoderm, begins to grow out between the ectoderm and entoderm from the 
 cells around the blastopore. 
 
 4. Origin of the nervous system; neural fold stage. Examine embryos of 
 this stage with a lens and note that a fold is appearing on each side of a central 
 groove extending lengthwise along the black hemisphere. This groove marks 
 the dorsal median line of the future embryo. The pair of folds, the medullary folds, 
 later come in contact and fuse in the median dorsal line, thus forming a longitudi- 
 nal tube which is the central nervous system. The blastopore is now reduced 
 to a small hole. Draw. Holmes's Fig. 22 (p. 98) is a cross-section of this stage. 
 
 5. Mesoderm and coelome. Examine slide. This is a cross-section of a 
 stage about halfway between Holmes's Figs. 22 and 26. The cross-section is 
 roughly pear-shaped, the narrow end of the section being the dorsal side of the 
 embryo. The section is surrounded by a layer of uniform width, two or three 
 cells thick. This is the ectoderm, destined to become the epidermis of the skin. 
 In the dorsal median line just under the ectoderm is an oval mass of cells with a 
 central elongated cavity. This is the cross-section of the neural tube or central 
 nervous system, which, as has been seen, originates as a pair of ectodermal folds, 
 which then umte to form a tube, while the ectoderm fuses again over the tube 
 to a continuous layer. Just ventral to the tube is a circular mass, the notochord, 
 which arises by an upfolding of the dorsal wall of the intestine. It is a long, 
 slender rod, around which the vertebrae later develop. Ventral to the notochord 
 appears the primitive intestine, a large, nearly circular, mass of ill-defined cells. 
 Its dorsal wall is thin and overlies a cavity, the cavity of the future digestive 
 tract; its ventral wall is very thick on account of the yolk which it contains. 
 This intestine is the entoderm, and its cells become the lining epithelium of the 
 digestive tract. Between the ectoderm and the entoderm lies the mesoderm; 
 it consists of a large triangular mass of cells on each side of the neural tube from 
 which a layer of cells extends ventrally on either side of the intestine, meeting 
 below. The layer of mesoderm cells generally shows a central split, which is the 
 coelome. The mesoderm to the outer side of the split, next to the ectoderm, 
 then represents the parietal layer of the peritoneum and some of the connective 
 tissue of the body wall. The mesoderm on the inner side of the split, next 
 to the entoderm is destined to form the connective tissue and muscular layers 
 of the wall of the digestive tract, the visceral layer of peritoneum, and the 
 mesenteries. The masses of mesoderm at the sides of the neural tube and 
 notochord form the axial skeleton, nearly all of the voluntary muscles, and the 
 dermis of the skin. The mesoderm immediately ventral to the triangular mass 
 is the source of the urinogenital system. 
 
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 Draw the cross-section. Do not attempt to put in individual cells, as these 
 are not distinctly visible. 
 
 6. Later development and segmentation. Examine with the hand lens 
 embryos of about the stages of Holmes's Fig. 24 (p. 101) and Fig. 30, 3 (p. 117). 
 Note the elongation of the body with later appearance of a tail. In the younger 
 embryo observe that the nervous system is sharply marked off along the whole 
 dorsal side and that grooves, later to break through as gill slits, are present on 
 the sides of the head. In the older embryo identify the eyes on the sides of the 
 head, the ventral mouth with horny lips, the two suckers posterior to the mouth, 
 and the much-coiled intestine visible through the skin. Note especially in the 
 tail the zigzag segments. Each such segment is a unit of structure and will give 
 rise to a vertebra, a section of the spinal cord with a pair of spinal nerves, a 
 certain number of muscles, paired branches of the chief blood vessels, etc. These 
 segments are also present in the body region of the tadpole, although externally 
 invisible. Segmentation, that is, repetition of structures along the axis, in 
 fact underlies the whole make-up of the adult frog. 
 
VIII. HEREDITY: MENDEL'S LAW 
 
 In the experiment on the life-cycle of the fruit fly (Drosophila) you were 
 given a pair of flies which differed from each other in a single character, as long 
 wings and short wings. (If blowflies were provided for that experiment, a pair 
 of fruit flies will now be given to you and should be examined according to the 
 directions under II, F, i.) The offspring resulting from such a pairing between 
 unlike individuals are therefore hybrids, and it becomes a matter of great interest 
 to find out what will be the appearance of the offspring, as we may then discover 
 how the characters of animals behave in heredity. 
 
 A. FIRST HYBRID GENERATION 
 
 When the offspring appear note carefully the character of the wings (or other 
 feature which was selected for the experiment). Are they all alike, or of two 
 kinds, like the parents, or do they resemble one parent more than the other, or 
 are they intermediate? What is the meaning of the terms "dominant" and 
 "recessive" as applied to a pair of characters such as we are dealing with here (A)? 
 
 A fresh bottle with banana will be provided for each student into which he is 
 to put one or two pairs of flies from his first generation and raise a second genera- 
 tion. The transference of the flies may be accomplished by dropping a small bit 
 of cotton soaked in ether into the bottle and taking out the flies after they have 
 become unconscious, or by holding a bottle over the end of the old culture bottle 
 until a few flies have flown into it, then holding the bottle over the new culture 
 bottle until they have flown out again. In doing this make use of the tendency 
 of Drosophila to fly toward the light. 
 
 B. SECOND HYBRID GENERATION 
 
 In the second hybrid generation note again the character of the wings (or 
 other feature selected) and determine the number of individuals with each kind 
 of wing length. This behavior of a hereditary character is called Menders 
 law or alternative inheritance. If we suppose that every female fly of the first 
 hybrid generation gave rise to two kinds of eggs in equal numbers, one bearing 
 the character "long wings" and the other the character "short wings"; and that 
 similarly every male of the first hybrid generation produced two kinds of sperms 
 in equal numbers; and that in fertilization all possible chance combinations 
 occurred (i.e., each kind of sperm fertilizes both kinds of eggs), what kind and 
 proportions of offspring would we expect mathematically? Thus if L is taken 
 to represent the character "long wings" and 5 the character "short wings" we 
 
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 get as a result of algebraic multiplication the following possible combinations in 
 equal numbers: LL, Ls, Ls, ss. What will be the external appearance of the 
 flies containing each of these combinations? Will LL differ from Ls? Why? 
 What then will be the ratio of long- to short-winged individuals in the second 
 generation (Hegner, p. 289)? 
 
 These experiments were first performed by a monk named Mendel, who 
 made crosses between different varieties of peas in the garden of the monastery 
 at Briinn, Austria. He discovered that in such crosses the differences between 
 the two plants that are crossed do not become permanently blended in the 
 offspring but separate out again unchanged in the second generation. This 
 behavior of the characters in crossing two different organisms is called Mendel's 
 law, and Mendel's results have since been confirmed on a very large number of 
 plants and animals. The conclusion which has been drawn from these experi- 
 ments is that the characteristics of animals are separate; that they are, so to 
 speak, independent units, which exist in some fashion or other as units in the 
 eggs and sperms; that these units remain separate hi a hybrid organism even 
 though the hybrid may appear externally to be a blend of the characters of its 
 two unlike parents; and that under proper circumstances they may be made 
 to separate out again apparently unchanged. Modern research indicates thai 
 the unit characters or, more correctly speaking, materials which represent the 
 unit characters are located in the chromatin of the nucleus. 
 
IX. PHYLUM PROTOZOA 
 
 A. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 
 
 In the preceding sections of this manual we have studied in detail the anatomy 
 of a fairly complex animal, the frog. We have seen the systems of organs of 
 which the frog is composed, the cells and tissues which are the framework of 
 these organs, and for what purpose and in what manner these organs are used 
 in enabling the animal to continue its existence. We have further seen that all 
 of this complicated mechanism arises from a single undifferentiated cell, the egg, 
 which, stimulated to activity by the entrance into its substance of a sperm, 
 starts on a process of development in the course of which the multitude of 
 structures found in the adult animal come into existence. 
 
 In this course of development in animals we further note that certain funda- 
 mental steps are involved. First the egg proceeds to produce a large number of 
 apparently similar undifferentiated cells by the process of cell division, which 
 we also studied. This continues until a ball of cells is produced. Then occurs 
 the first step in differentiation; part of the ball invaginates so that a layer of 
 cells, now called the entoderrn, lies within another layer of cells, the ectoderm. 
 So important are these layers for the future development that they are designated 
 as germ layers, i.e., layers from which certain systems are to arise. Owing to 
 their different positions these two layers have different relations to the external 
 environment and hence must take on different functions. The ectoderm, being 
 in contact with the environment, must necessarily receive stimuli from this 
 environment and act as protection against the harmful conditions which may 
 arise; hence it is destined for nervous and covering structures. The entoderrn 
 naturally takes on digestive functions, since food is essential to life, and an 
 animal can hardly digest food unless it takes the food into its interior. This 
 structural condition found in the gastrula stage of development is known as 
 diplobastic (meaning two germ layers), and, as we shall see, thousands of animals 
 exist whose structure has gone no farther than this. However, it is obvious that 
 no very great degree of complexity and differentiation can be attained in a gas- 
 trula; a third germ layer, the mesoderm, next arises between the other two, from 
 which is produced by far the greater part of the structures that we have seen in 
 the frog. This condition is known as triploblastic (meaning three germ layers). 
 The next advance is the splitting of the mesoderm, so as to leave a cavity, the 
 coelome, between its two layers; and finally the mesoderm becomes segmented, 
 that is, repeats itself along the axis. 
 
 Having thus established in our minds a fairly complete picture of the make-up 
 of an animal and the manner in which its anatomical features have come into 
 
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 existence, we shall next study a number of other common animals, comparing 
 them with the frog in structure, histology, and function. Just as the frog 
 forms one of a great group of animals, the vertebrates, distinguished by the posses- 
 sion of a vertebral column, so all the animals which exist upon the earth can be 
 arranged into great groups, each of which is called a phylum. There are about 
 a dozen of these phyla and they are distinguished from each other very easily 
 by large important anatomical differences. We shall study representatives of 
 several of these phyla, starting with the simplest, always comparing their anatomy 
 with that of the frog and seeing how one by one the systems of which the frog 
 is composed have come into existence. 
 
 We trust the student has by this time been sufficiently impressed with the 
 fact that the unit of structure of the frog is the cell and that the entire frog comes 
 from one cell. We are now about to see that numerous adult animals exist 
 which consist of but a single cell, but yet are able to carry on all of the functions 
 necessary to life within the limits of this single cell. These animals belong to 
 the phylum Protozoa, or the one-celled animals. They are the simplest animals, 
 and one of the simplest among them is the one to which we shall first direct our 
 attention, the Amoeba. Read Hegner, chapter iv, pp. 37-53. 
 
 B. THE AMOEBA 
 
 1. General structure and locomotion. Mount a few drops of solid material 
 from the culture on a slide, cover, and examine with the low power. Cut down 
 the light. Search the slide for an irregular granular object, apparently motionless. 
 Ask the assistant whether or not you have an Amoeba or have him help you find 
 one. Study the animal with both low and high powers. Observe that the 
 Amoeba moves by putting out projections, called pseudopodia, from its surface 
 and then flowing into these projections. This type of movement is designated 
 as amoeboid movement. The protoplasm of the Amoeba may be divided into two 
 regions, an outer clear layer, the ectoplasm, entirely free from granules, and the 
 central mass, the endoplasm (also spelled "entoplasm"), filled with round or 
 dark oval granules, of unknown function, and food particles. Under the high 
 power watch the formation of a pseudopodium, and determine how the ectoplasm 
 and endoplasm behave in its formation. Does the Amoeba have anterior and 
 posterior ends or a definite form? 
 
 Make five outline drawings of the Amoeba to show successive changes of 
 shape. Indicate by arrows the direction of flow of the protoplasm. 
 
 2. Special structures. Find a specimen whose protoplasm is well spread 
 out and not excessively granular and look with the high power for the following 
 structures: 
 
 a) The contractile vacuole: Watch the non-moving parts of the animal for a 
 perfectly spherical clear spot. At intervals it contracts and disappears, hence 
 
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 the name contractile vacuole. If you have a favorable specimen, watch and 
 describe in your notes the behavior of the vacuole, and time the interval between 
 contractions. When the vacuole reappears after a contraction, is it the same 
 size as previously? Sometimes two or more vacuoles may be present, but they 
 generally coalesce into one later. What is the function of the contractile 
 vacuole (R)? 
 
 b) The nucleus: This is a sharply outlined, finely granular body in the 
 neighborhood of the contractile vacuole, often in contact with it and of about the 
 same size as the fully expanded vacuole. Its granules, which are chromatin 
 granules, are much finer and more regularly distributed than those of the endo- 
 plasm. Determine the real shape of the nucleus by watching it as it rolls along 
 in the moving endoplasm. Is it spherical? Occasionally specimens are found 
 which have two nuclei. 
 
 c) Food vacuoles: The endoplasm usually contains particles or masses of 
 digesting food, the larger of which may be inclosed in a drop of fluid and hence 
 are called food vacuoles. Find out in your text how the Amoeba digests food. 
 How does the process compare with that of the frog? 
 
 Make an enlarged drawing of the Amoeba, and put into it all of the details 
 of structure described above. Indicate the granular appearance by stippling 
 with the pencil point. 
 
 4. Activities. Can you observe any indications that the amoeba is irritable 
 and responds to the varying conditions of its environment? For instance, what 
 does it do when it comes in contact with an obstacle or when other animals 
 strike against it? If possible, observe the reaction to food material. How do 
 you suppose the amoeba distinguishes between food particles and other particles? 
 What does the amoeba do when it comes in contact with food material? Describe 
 in your notes and sketch this behavior, if you are so fortunate as to observe it. 
 
 5. General considerations on the amoeba. Does the amoeba carry on all 
 the physiological processes that we found to occur in the frog? Does it have 
 any special organs for these processes? What are the significant differences and 
 resemblances between the amoeba and the frog? What does the frog gain by 
 its greater complexity of structure? To what stage in development of the frog 
 does the amoeba correspond? Give these questions careful thought and answer 
 specifically in your notes. 
 
 C. PARAMECIUM 
 
 The study of this animal is usually somewhat difficult owing to its swift 
 movements. In order, therefore, to obtain satisfactory results the student must 
 follow the directions very closely (Hegner, chap, v, pp. 59-79)- 
 
 i. General form and movements. Mount a solid piece of scum and a drop 
 of water from the culture on a slide and examine under the low power without 
 a cover glass. A number of different organisms will probably be present and 
 
74 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 of these the relatively large, greenish, slipper-shaped animals are Paramecia. 
 Note carefully the general shape of the body. Are the two ends different in 
 form? Is one end always directed forward in swimming? If so, which end? 
 Does the animal have a definite permanent shape? 
 
 Watch and describe in your notes the swimming movements. Observe that 
 the animal when swimming in a free field revolves upon its long axis; also it 
 seems to swerve from side to side. What is the cause of the rotation and the 
 swerving and what is the real path of the animal (see Hegner, p. 65)? 
 
 By this time the student will probably have observed that the animal is 
 not symmetrical and cylindrical but that the anterior half is deeply concave 
 as if a large slice had been cut out of it. This concave depression is called the 
 oral groove. It is best seen by watching the animals as they revolve. The side 
 of the Paramecium on which the oral groove is located is the ventral or oral 
 side; the opposite side, the dorsal or aboral surface; and right and left are then 
 easily determined. (In Hegner, Fig. 23, p. 60, the labels R and L have been 
 interchanged.) Observe the freely moving animals carefully until you have 
 obtained a correct idea of the width, length, and direction of slant of the oral 
 groove. How wide is it compared with the anterior end? Does it slant from 
 right to left or left to right? (Remember that as the animal is transparent you 
 cannot determine whether you are looking at the upper or under side of it, except 
 by the use of the focusing screw.) How far posteriorly does it extend f 
 
 Make an outline drawing of the animal from the ventral side, about four 
 inches long, showing its correct shape and proportions and correct appearance 
 of the oral groove. Have the drawing approved by the assistant before proceed- 
 ing. The details of structure are later to be entered upon this outline. 
 
 2. Detailed structure. This study must be made with the high power, a 
 proceeding usually fraught with difficulty for the student because the animal 
 will not stand still. One or all of the following methods of quieting the animals 
 must therefore be employed and will ordinarily prove successful: (i) Always 
 mount the animals with a piece of scum or other solid material from the culture. 
 They will generally remain quiet around this, or around air bubbles, or often 
 near the edge of the cover glass. This is the most satisfactory method of study- 
 ing Paramecium^ as the animals remain in a normal condition throughout. 
 Every student should try this first. (2) Withdraw the water from the slide 
 by applying a piece of filter paper to the edge of the cover glass, so that not 
 enough water remains for the animals to swim in. Under these conditions, 
 however, the normal shape and appearance of the animals is lost, and they soon 
 burst and die so that observations must be completed quickly. (3) Mount a 
 drop or two of Paramecium on a slide and place in the center a small drop of a 
 very dilute solution of formaldehyde. Cover. The animals near the formalde- 
 hyde will soon slow down and finally become entirely motionless; those farther 
 away will eventually also succumb. For a time, the motionless animals retain 
 
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 75 
 
 the normal shape and structure (although the trichocysts are often discharged), 
 but finally they round up and become abnormal. When this happens find 
 another specimen. This method is very successful, provided that the proper 
 concentration of formaldehyde is used. 
 
 All observations with the high power must be made with a cover glass over 
 the material. Do not allow the material to dry up. Make observations only 
 upon normal specimens, as far as practicable. With a little patience all of the 
 following details of structure can be observed. 
 
 Paramecium, like Amoeba, consists of but a single cell, but whereas the latter 
 is a mass of nearly homogeneous protoplasm, showing little differentiation, the 
 protoplasm of Paramecium has become differentiated into a considerable number 
 of different parts, as the following description will demonstrate. 
 
 a) Ectosarc: The outer layer of protoplasm of the Paramecium is called the 
 ectoplasm or ectosarc. The surface of the ectosarc is differentiated as a firm 
 membrane, the cuticle or pellicle, to which the animal owes its permanent shape. 
 It is marked with a mosaic of hexagons which is not usually demonstrable (see 
 Hegner, Fig. 24, p. 62). From all over the cuticle arise delicate threadlike 
 processes of the protoplasm, the cilia, whose co-ordinated movement like numer- 
 ous little oars propels the animal through the water. The cilia are practically 
 of the same length over the body except that there is a tuft of longer ones on the 
 posterior extremity. Those in the oral groove are especially active. The cilia 
 are best seen by focusing on the edge of the animal. The layer of ectoplasm 
 under the cuticle contains innumerable rodlike bodies lying parallel to each 
 other and at right angles to the surface. They are best seen by focusing on the 
 edge of the animal, as in the central parts 01 the animal they are viewed from 
 the end and hence appear as dots. They are called trichocysts and appear to be 
 little oval sacs containing a viscous fluid. Upon stimulation this fluid is dis- 
 charged through the minute opening of the trichocyst and hence is squeezed 
 out into the form of a long thread. Enter the layer of trichocysts and the cilia 
 upon your outline drawing. Do not make a new drawing. 
 
 b) Endosarc: The central mass of the Paramecium is the endoplasm or 
 endosarc. It is much more fluid than the ectosarc and is filled with granules. 
 It generally contains a number of spherical vacuoles packed with food particles, 
 designated as food vacuoles. It contains the nuclei (see below). Enter details 
 of the endoplasm on your drawing. 
 
 c) Digestive apparatus: This is best studied on a normal active animal, one 
 that is resting quietly near some object. It can also be seen on formalized 
 animals but not on those which have been flattened out by withdrawal of water. 
 Having found a favorable individual, watch the posterior end of the oral groove 
 (be sure you know where this is) for an oval clear spot. This is the so-called 
 mouth. Then observe a clear funnel-shaped curved cavity leading posteriorly 
 from the mouth down into the endoplasm. This is the gullet or cytopharynx. 
 
76 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 In favorable cases you may observe minute food particles shooting down the 
 gullet and collecting into balls in its inner rounded end. Note the great activity 
 of the cilia in the gullet, where they are fused into a vibrating membrane, known 
 as the undulating membrane. The oral groove, mouth, gullet, and undulating 
 membrane are the food-catching apparatus of the Paramecium. Near the gullet 
 is a region inappropriately named the anus, where undigested food material is 
 extruded. It can be seen only when material is passing out through it. (The 
 terms "mouth/ 5 "pharynx," "anus," etc., should not have oeen applied to the 
 Paramecium as they do not in the least correspond to the structures so named 
 in the frog, except from the point of view of their function.) Enter the above- 
 mentioned details on your drawing. 
 
 d) Contractile vacuoles: Observe a circular clear spot near each end of the 
 animal. These are the contractile vacuoles. They are located between the 
 ectosarc and the endosarc but firmly attached to the former. Are they on the 
 ventral or dorsal side? Watch the contraction and note the radiating canals 
 which appear like the petals of a flower around the point where the vacuole has 
 disappeared. What is the average time between successive contractions of a 
 vacuole? How does this compare with the contraction interval of the vacuole 
 of Amoeba? The anterior vacuole of Paramecium generally contracts more 
 frequently than the posterior one. (Note that the vacuoles may cease to con- 
 tract or may contract very slowly in formalized specimens, and become very 
 large and abnormal in behavior in flattened specimens.) Enter vacuoles and 
 canals on your drawing. 
 
 e) Nuclei: Paramecium and its relatives have two nuclei, a large meganucleus 
 (also called macronucleus) and a small micronucleus. They cannot be seen in 
 normal animals, but the meganucleus can usually be recognized as a central 
 large irregular mass in flattened and formalized individuals. Study the nuclei 
 in the stained slides of Paramecium which are in your box. The meganucleus 
 is a large-lobed and folded mass in or near the center, and the micronucleus is a 
 small spherical body lying in a concave depression of the meganucleus. Put 
 the nuclei in your drawing in their proper places. 
 
 3. Experiments on Paramecium 
 
 a) Formation and course of food vacuoles: Start this experiment at the begin- 
 ning of the laboratory period, as it requires some time for completion. It need 
 not be watched continuously and the other experiments may be performed during 
 the progress of this one. Mount some Paramecia with a piece of scum, add a 
 drop of India ink suspension, and cover. This experiment can be carried out 
 only on normal active animals, and the observations should be made on animals 
 which are resting about the piece of scum. Do not let your preparation become 
 dry. Find a quiet individual, and note that the particles of carbon are swept 
 rapidly down the gullet to its rounded termination where they collect into whirling 
 spherical masses. Observe that from time to time one of these masses breaks 
 
PHYLUM PROTOZOA 77 
 
 off and passes into the endoplasm as a food vacuole. Observe in what part of 
 the body the food vacuoles first collect and where they are found later. Find 
 out by observations at intervals their exact course in the endoplasm and make 
 a diagram to indicate your observations. The movement of the vacuoles is of 
 course due to a slow circulation of the endoplasm. You may, if you watch the 
 preparation long enough, be able to observe the discharge of the carbon through 
 the anus. 
 
 b) Discharge of Jke trichocysts: Mount some Paramecia on a slide, add a 
 drop of picro-acetic acid, cover gently, and examine. Each animal will be found 
 surrounded by a halo of long threads which are the discharged solidified contents 
 of the trichocysts. Make a drawing showing relative lengths of cilia and the 
 threads from the trichocysts. 
 
 c) The avoiding reaction: Mount some Paramecia as usual and observe with 
 the low power. What happens when the animal strikes an obstacle? This 
 reaction is called the avoiding reaction. Make a diagram to illustrate the reaction, 
 showing the position of the Paramecium before, during, and after striking the 
 object. 
 
 'd) Reaction to chemicals: Obtain a considerable number of Paramecia and 
 spread them out over the slide. Place the slide on the table and drop a small 
 crystal of common salt in the center of the slide. Observe with the naked eye 
 the behavior of the Paramecia toward the salt. What does each Paramecium 
 do on coming into the neighborhood of the salt solution? What part does the 
 avoiding reaction play in the behavior? Make a diagram to illustrate the results 
 of this experiment. 
 
 4. Reproduction. This process takes place by division (fission) of the animal 
 into two halves by a transverse constriction. A sort of sexual act called con- 
 jugation also occurs at intervals, although it has been demonstrated that this 
 is not necessary for the continued existence of Paramecium (Hegner, p. 73). 
 
 a) Fission: In fission, both of the nuclei play an active r61e. The mega- 
 nucleus divides by direct division; the micronucleus by a very primitive kind 
 of mitosis, with the formation within it of fibers like the spindle fibers (see 
 Hegner, Fig. 32, p. 70). Study and draw from the prepared slides three stages 
 of fission, marked "early," "middle," and "late." Note that each slide contains 
 only a few individuals which are dividing while the rest of the specimens are 
 merely normal. The location of the dividing individuals has been indicated on 
 most of the slides by ink marks. Do not draw until you are sure that you have 
 found a specimen in fission. 
 
 (i) Early fission: The beginning of fission is recognizable by the elongation 
 of the meganucleus, which becomes nearly as long as the animal. The micro- 
 nucleus has moved away from its usual position in a depression of the mega- 
 nucleus and is free in the cytoplasm, where it will be found in various stages of 
 division. It accomplishes this division by pulling into two halves which move 
 
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 farther and farther apart from each other, drawing out the connecting band 
 into a thinner and thinner thread which finally ruptures. The division of the 
 micronucleus is completed very early in the process of fission. 
 
 (2) Middle fission: The micronucleus is completely divided and one of it? 
 halves will be found near each end of the animal. The meganucleus is separat- 
 ing into two halves connected by a slender strand. A transverse constrictioi 
 is present across the center of the cell. 
 
 (3) Late fission: The division of the meganucleus has been completed. The 
 cytoplasmic constriction has divided the cell nearly or completely in two, but 
 the two halves still cling together, Each half has regenerated those structures 
 which it lacked. The whole process of fission requires in life about one half an 
 hour. The daughter-cells at first small* * than the normal Paramecium soon 
 attain adult size and proportions. 
 
 b) Conjugation: Look over the slide for cases in which two Paramecia are 
 united by their oral grooves. Draw. It is not practical for beginning students 
 to study the stages of the conjugation process but the texts should be consulted 
 for this information (Hegner, pp. 68-73). 
 
 5. General considerations on the Paramecium. Is Paramecium more dif- 
 ferentiated than Amoeba? In your answer, compare in detail Amoeba and 
 Paramecium as to definiteness of form, organs of locomotion, place of ingestion 
 and egestion of food, etc. In what part of the protoplasm, ectoplasm, or endo- 
 plasm has the greater degree of differentiation occurred? Can you give a reason 
 for this? What does Paramecium gain by its more complex structure? 
 
 D. GENERAL STUDY OF PROTOZOAN CULTURES 
 
 In order to obtain Protozoa in abundance it is necessary to cultivate them in 
 a food-containing solution, which is called a culture. Such cultures are made by 
 adding boiled grain, hay, bread, pond weeds, etc., to a considerable quantity of 
 water; bacteria from the air fall into the culture, flourish there upon the food 
 material which was put into the culture, and furnish food for the Protozoa, 
 which are added to the culture from a natural source, such as pond water. Owing 
 to the abundance of bacteria in such artificial cultures the Protozoa increase 
 by division until enormous numbers of them will be present in a relatively small 
 quantity of water. 
 
 Besides bacteria, yeasts, fin J, and r ^er low plant forms and Protozoa, small 
 multicellular animals also occur in the cultures, and a hasty study will be made 
 of them also. 
 
 Obtain a drop or two of water from Protozoa cuHures which are supplied; 
 cover, examine, and identify as far as possible the r ms present. Sketches of 
 the more interesting ones are desirable if time pern: &. In the case of Protozoa 
 particular attention should be paid to organs of locomotion and specialization? 
 of structure. 
 
PHYLUM PROTOZOA 7g 
 
 i. Protozoa. Learn to distinguish Protozoa from other microscopic animals. 
 They are recognizable by absence of cell waUs and absence of organs, their bodies 
 having a granular structureless appearance. The common Protozoa met with 
 in cultures besides Paramecium are: 
 
 a) Vorticella: This relatively small protozoan is readily recognized by its 
 bell-shaped body and the slender stalk arising from the top of the bell and per- 
 manently attaching the animal to other objects in the culture. The stalk is 
 contractile; in fact it contains a spiral muscle, which on shortening draws the 
 stalk into the shape of a spiral spring. We thus see that muscular fibrils can be 
 differentiated even within the limits of a single cell. The free end of the bell 
 bears a circle of swiftly vibrating cilia, and a large opening to the gullet. Look 
 for food vacuoles, contractile vacuoles, e' >. The horseshoe-shaped macronucleus 
 can be seen only after staining with aceto-carmine. 
 
 b) Stentor: This animal is a large trumpet-shaped form, usually attached 
 to objects. The broad end bears a circle of large cilia, and a conspicuous spiral 
 gullet. The ectosarc is striped. The stripes are muscular fibrils which enable 
 the Stentor to undergo considerable changes of shape. The macronucleus 
 resembles a string of beads and is generally a conspicuous object. 
 
 c} Eypotrichous dilates: This group of ciliates is easily distinguished by a 
 jerky darting method of locomotion, and the possession of large cilia which are 
 used as legs for creeping over objects. These cilia are really fused bundles of 
 cilia, usually called cirri, and it is a remarkable fact that each one of them can 
 be moved independently. Look for gullet, contractile vacuole, etc. The 
 nucleus cannot be seen without staining. Use aceto-carmine. Common forms 
 are Euplotes, Stylonichia, Oxytricha. 
 
 d) Other ciliates: Ciliates are the commonest Protozoa, and a great variety 
 may be expected in cultures. Frontonia is similar to Paramecium, but larger 
 and more oval in form; Didinium may be recognized from Hegner's Fig. 26 
 (p. 63) ; Spirostomum is a long, slender, cigar-shaped ciliate with oblique muscle 
 stripes; Lacrymaria is spindle-shaped with a very long, slender, mobile "neck", 
 Dileptus is a large form with a short contractile neck ; Colpoda is a small oval 
 type with a marked indentation near the anterior end; Coleps is distinguished 
 by an armor of small squarish plates; Ealteria is a quite small, nearly spher- 
 ical ciliate, moving by swift darts. TJ'ese are tl * forms which we commonly 
 get in cultures "seeded" from natural w >;s in . '-.e* Chicago region, but many 
 others may be expected. 
 
 e) Heliozoa, or sun animalcules: Spherical protozoans with stiff radiating 
 pseudopodia and bubbly protoplasm are not infrequently found. They are 
 related to Amoeba. Actin* krys, small, and Actinosphaerium, quite large, are 
 the common kinds. 
 
 /) Amoeboid organisms: The only other common protozoan, similar to 
 Amoeba, is Arcella. This animal resembles Amoeba in all essential respects 
 
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 except that it secretes a brown hemispherical shell in which it lives and which 
 it carries on its back, so to speak, when it moves about. It is relatively common 
 in cultures. 
 
 g) Flagellates: Organisms similar in appearance to the Euglena figured and 
 described in Hegner (p. 82) are not uncommon in cultures. Some are green, 
 some colorless, all possess long threadlike flagella as locomotor organs, although 
 these are often very difficult to see, as they are transparent. Flagellates are 
 best recognized by a peculiar swaying type of swimming movement, quite 
 distinct from the movement of ciliates. 
 
 2. Multicellular organisms. These are readily distinguishable from Protozoa 
 by the presence of definite organs in their bodies. See Hegner (pp. 5-6) for 
 the general characters of the different phyla. One usually finds in cultures the 
 following types: 
 
 a) The rotifers, or wheel animalcules (Phylum Trochelminthes) : These 
 extremely common animals are at once known by the presence of one or two 
 disks of cilia on their anterior ends. The constant movement of these cilia 
 produces the illusion of a rotating wheel. The ciliary apparatus can be folded 
 into the head. Other interesting features are the internal jaws, which keep up 
 a constant chewing movement, the jointed telescopic posterior end, often pro- 
 vided with one or more "toes" for clinging to objects, and the hard case, or 
 lorica, which often incloses the animal. The most common rotifer in cultures 
 is Philodina, which possesses a pair of "wheels." 
 
 b) Roundworms or nematodes (Phylum Nemathelminthes), slender, cylindrical, 
 wormlike animals, pointed at both ends, without cilia, moving by violent alternate 
 curving and straightening of the body. 
 
 c) Flatworms (Phylum Platyhelminthes) , slender flattened animals, moving 
 in a smooth gliding manner, due to the presence of cilia; with more or less 
 definite heads. Stenostomum is the commonest form, and often occurs in chains, 
 produced by fission. 
 
 d) Chaetonotus (Phylum Trochelminthes?): This animal, possibly related 
 to the rotifers, resembles a ciliate protozoan. It has a slender flexible body, 
 possessing in front a rounded head region, followed by a short "neck," and at the 
 posterior end two pointed processes. The whole surface is covered with short 
 spines. 
 
 e) Naids (Phylum Annelida), slender cylindrical worms, provided with 
 projecting bristles at regular intervals. The smallest ones belong to the genus 
 Aeolosoma, and have beautiful red, orange, or green spots. Some (Stylaria, 
 Pristina) have a long, slender, very active proboscis at the anterior end. Dero 
 is provided at the posterior end with an expansible hood bearing several ciliated 
 gills. Most of the naids are quite large compared to the other forms we have 
 been describing. They also occur in chains produced by fission. 
 
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 /) Water mites and water bears (Phylum Arthropoda): These are round to 
 oval flat animals with projecting legs. The water mites have six jointed legs 
 in the young state, eight in the adult. The water bear has eight short, non- 
 jointed legs provided with claws. 
 
 g) Entomostraca (Phylum Arthropoda) : These common animals have 
 conspicuous jointed legs, and often large jointed antennae projecting from the 
 head. They swim in a jerky manner. One of the commonest types is Cyclops, 
 a small animal with a jointed body, single median eye, long swimming antennae, 
 and slender terminal spines; often also with two sacs full of eggs hanging to 
 the body. The water fleas have well-marked heads with large eyes, and powerful 
 swimming antennae, but the body is inclosed in a double shell, from which the 
 jointed legs may be protruded from time to time. 
 
 This brief account of the microscopic animals commonly found in pond water 
 is merely intended to give the student an idea of the variety of form and structure 
 of aquatic life. Students who are interested will find more detailed accounts 
 of these animals in Stokes's Aquatic Microscopy, obtainable in the library. 
 
X. PHYLUM COELENTERATA 
 
 A. HYDRA 
 
 i. General structure. Note the appearance of the animals in the culture. 
 They are sessile, that is, attached to the glass, plants, etc., by one end while 
 the rest of the body hangs free in the water. Obtain a living Hydra and place 
 in a watch glass with sufficient water to cover the animal. Examine with the 
 lowest power of the microscope or with a hand lens, and note the following 
 parts (Hegner, chap, viii, pp. 116-38). 
 
 The body or column of the animal is a cylindrical elastic tube, capable of 
 great extension and contraction. From one end of this, which is the oral, 
 anterior, or distal end, arise a number of radially arranged slender outgrowths, 
 the tentacles. The number of these varies from four to ten, but is generally five 
 or six. The oral extremity between the bases of the tentacles forms a conical 
 elevation, the hypostome, in the center of which the mouth is located. The 
 mouth when closed has a star-shaped appearance but is usually difficult to see, 
 unless the hypostome happens to be turned directly upward. The flattened 
 base of the animal is the posterior, aboral, or proximal end, is often designated 
 as the foot or basal disk, and secretes a cement-like substance by which the 
 organism attaches itself. Column and tentacles are hollow, inclosing a cavity 
 known as the gastrovascular cavity because it has both digestive and circulatory 
 functions. Under the low power the gastrovascular cavity appears outlined by 
 brownish lines in most specimens; it is usually an extensive cavity only in the 
 anterior half of the column, being reduced posteriorly to a slender canal. 
 
 Observe the tentacles more closely and note that they bear numerous pro- 
 tuberances, each of which contains a collection of very small oval sharply out- 
 lined bodies, the stinging cells or nematocysts. Such a collection of stinging cells 
 is called a battery. At the end of each tentacle is a great mass of stinging 
 cells. They also occur sparingly on the column. 
 
 Hydra is not bilaterally symmetrical, like the frog, where there is only one 
 possible plane that will divide the animal into similar halves, but is radially 
 symmetrical, that is the parts of the body radiate from a common axis so that 
 a number of planes of symmetry could be passed through the animal. How do 
 you think the differentiation and development of the anterior end compare 
 with that of the frog? Does it seem to have any special structures different 
 from the rest of the body? 
 
 Draw a Hydra in the extended state showing the above-mentioned 
 details. 
 
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 2. General behavior (Hegner, pp. 127-33). On your own specimen or on 
 those in the general culture jar perform the following simple experiments. Use 
 a dean needle, touch the animals gently, and wait for the animal to expand 
 completely before stimulating it again or use a different specimen. Touch one 
 tentacle of a fully expanded individual gently. Does it contract? Do other 
 parts contract? Touch two or three tentacles simultaneously. Is the response 
 more marked than before? Try the comparative effect of a touch of the same 
 intensity on the foot, middle of the column, and hypostome. What parts of the 
 animal are the most sensitive? least sensitive? Try difference in response to 
 a weak and strong stimulus applied to the same region. Stir the water in the 
 culture and observe what happens. Do any of these experiments indicate that 
 the stimulus is conducted from the point of stimulation to other parts, as in the 
 frog? As in the frog the mechanism of irritability and perception of stimuli 
 is a nervous system and sensory cells and the mechanism of response consists 
 of muscle fibers. Owing, however, to the very simple structure of these systems, 
 there is but one response to all kinds of stimuli, namely, contraction. 
 
 Make an outline drawing of a fully contracted Hydra. 
 
 3. Cellular structure of the living animal. Mount a Hydra on a slide and 
 support the cover glass with small bits of broken glass or slivers of wood so that 
 the animal will not be crushed. The support must be thick enough to allow the 
 animal to extend itself freely under the cover glass but not so thick as to interfere 
 with the use of the high power. Small individuals are best for the purpose. 
 
 a) Cellular structure of the column: The animal must be fully extended for 
 the following observations. Hydra consists of two layers of cells, an outer 
 ectoderm and an inner entoderm with a structureless gelatinous sheet, the meso- 
 gloea, between them. It is thus like two closely fitting cylinders, one within 
 the other. Hydra is therefore a diploUastic animal, that is, it consists of two 
 germ layers (Hegner, p. no). Examine the base of the column near the foot 
 with the high power and try to see these two layers. First focus on the surface 
 of the column and observe that it consists of a mosaic of elongated cells, with 
 pointed ends. These are called the epithelio-muscular cells of the ectoderm 
 because each has an epithelial and a muscular portion. A few nematocysts, oval 
 distinct bodies, also occur lying in the ectoderm cells, and there may sometimes 
 be observed between some of the epithelio-muscular cells greenish groups of 
 very small cells, the interstitial cells. Now focus slowly downward, and a new 
 layer of larger, more rounded, clear cells, the nutritive muscular cells of the ento- 
 derm, comes into view. Focus on the edge of the animal; the ectoderm then 
 appears in profile as a rather thin layer, separated from the thicker entoderm 
 by a dark line of uniform width, the mesogloea. 
 
 b) Cellular structure of the tentacle: Examine the base of a fully extended 
 tentacle, and repeating the above-mentioned procedure observe first the ectoderm 
 cells; then by focusing on the optical center note the large clear rectangular 
 
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 or cuboidal entoderm cells, the line of mesogloea, and the profile view of the 
 ectoderm. The center of the tentacle is occupied by a slender canal, a branch 
 of the gastrovascular system, but this is distinctly identifiable only when food 
 particles in it can be seen moving back and forth. Draw a small portion to 
 show the cell arrangement in optical section. Then examine the more distal 
 (i.e., farther away from the body) portions of the tentacle to see the arrangement 
 of the stinging cells. Each group of stinging cells, or battery, is contained 
 within a single ectoderm cell, and causes a conical projection which appears 
 clearly when the ectoderm is viewed in profile. Note the definite arrangement 
 of large and small nematocysts in each battery and the projecting spines, the 
 cnidocils, best seen in profile. Draw a small portion of the tentacle to show 
 several batteries. 
 
 4. The nematocysts. Remove the supports from under the cover glass 
 and drum on the cover glass with the point of a pencil until the animal is thor- 
 oughly crushed. This discharges the nematocysts. With the high power 
 examine undischarged and discharged nematocysts. There are usually three 
 kinds of them, a large barbed and two small non-barbed varieties. 
 
 a) Large barbed nematocysts: In the undischarged state these are oval sacs, 
 with one end flattened. From the flat end a hollow pouch projects into the 
 interior, and from the inner end of this a coiled thread arises filling the rounded 
 part of the sac. When discharged, pouch and thread are projected to the exterior, 
 turning inside out. The pouch bears three large spikes and some quite small 
 ones (see Hegner, Fig. 56, p. 121). Some kinds of Hydras have two sizes of this 
 type of nematocyst. 
 
 b) Small oval nematocysts: These are much smaller than the preceding, oval 
 or cylindrical, generally pointed at one end. When undischarged a spirally 
 coiled thread fills the whole interior, projecting inward from the pointed end. 
 When discharged the extremely long fine thread readily identifies this type. 
 
 c) Small spherical nematocysts: These are a little smaller than the preceding 
 and more spherical. Each contains a thick thread which makes a single loop, 
 inside the nematocyst and fojrns a tight little coil of three or four turns when 
 discharged (see Hegner, Fig. 57, p. 122). 
 
 Nematocysts are not really cells but cell products secreted by the interstitial 
 ceUs, which may frequently be seen clinging to them. Interstitial cells engaged 
 in forming nematocysts are called cnidoblasts, and from them project slender 
 spines, the cnidocils, whose stimulation is supposed to cause the explosion of the 
 nematocysts. 
 
 Draw as many kinds of discharged and undischarged nematocysts as you 
 can find without spending too much time upon them. 
 
 5. Cellular structure from slides. 
 
 a) Longitudinal section: Examine slide " Hydra long." Find a nearly 
 median longitudinal section. Identify under low power the ectoderm, with 
 
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 its numerous darkly stained nematocysts, the line of mesogloea, and the elongated 
 irregular highly vacuolated entoderm cells. In the region of the hypos tome 
 note the granular appearance of the entoderm, indicating glandular functions, as 
 it here secretes mucus to aid in swallowing food; observe also the folds in this 
 region, permitting great distension of the mouth. On some of the sections the 
 continuation of the gastrovascular cavity into the tentacles can probably be 
 observed. Make a low-power diagrammatic drawing of the section, constructing 
 it from what you have seen on several sections. 
 
 b) Cross-section: Examine slide " Hydra trans." Make a careful study 
 with the high power of the cell structure. 
 
 (1) Ectoderm: The ectoderm consists of a sheet of cells one cell thick, form- 
 ing a continuous outer layer of the animal, and appearing as the outer circle in 
 the cross-section. It is composed mainly of large epithelio-muscular cells whose 
 boundaries are often indistinct. The greater part of each of these cells is a 
 polyhedral epithelial cell, but the base is drawn out into a long, slender, muscular 
 fibril, running in a longitudinal direction. Thus the bases of all the ectoderm 
 cells produce a longitudinal muscle coat for the Hydra, by means of which it is 
 able to contract. (For the appearance of the muscle fibrils see below under 
 "Mesogloea.") Each epithelio-muscular cell has a large nucleus, easily recognized 
 by its black central nucleolus and distinct network. Within many of the 
 epithelio-muscular cells are numerous darkly stained nematocysts, of which the 
 various types described above will be recognized. Each is inclosed in its mother- 
 cell, the cnidoblast, which is a modified interstitial cell. These latter are small, 
 dark, granular cells, each about the size of a nucleus of the ordinary ectoderm 
 cells, and occurring in groups or masses which are within or between the epithelio- 
 muscular cells. 
 
 (2) Entoderm: The entoderm like the ectoderm is a continuous sheet of 
 cells, forming a sort of inner tube for the animal. It is made up chiefly of the 
 nutritive muscular cells, or digestive cells, large, elongated, vacuolated cells, with 
 well-defined walls, and bulbous, crowded inner ends. They usually contain many 
 food particles and droplets, have a nucleus like that of the ectoderm cells and a 
 small amount of granular cytoplasm, confined mainly to the inner ends. Their 
 outer ends, next to the mesogloea, are also prolonged into muscular fibrils, which 
 run circularly, forming a circular coat, but this is relatively poorly developed as 
 compared with the outer longitudinal coat. Situated between the inner ends of the 
 digestive cells is another type of cell, the secretory or glandular cell, which produces 
 the digestive enzymes. This appears as a small triangular cell, filled with a 
 network, resting between the diverging inner ends of the adjacent nutritive cells. 
 
 (3) Mesogloea: The mesogloea is not a cell layer but a sheet of gelatinous 
 material cementing the ectoderm and entoderm together. The longitudinally 
 directed muscular bases of the ectoderm cells are imbedded in the mesogloea and 
 appear there as dark dots. 
 
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 Draw a small portion of the section in great detail to show all the kinds of 
 cells present. 
 
 6. Reproduction. Hydra reproduces by the asexual process of budding or 
 by the reproduction of eggs and sperm in definite reproductive organs. Living 
 material with sex organs is available only in the autumn. 
 
 a) Budding: If living specimens with buds are available obtain one and 
 make a simple outline drawing. 
 
 b) Male reproductive organs: Examine slide at demonstration microscope. 
 The male organs, spermaries or testes, form conical elevations in the ectoderm 
 each provided with a nipple-like extension for the exit of the sperm. Draw. 
 
 c) Female reproductive organs: Demonstration slide. The ovaries are located 
 nearer the aboral end than the testes, form low broad elevations, and lack the 
 nipple. Each contains a single (or sometimes two) large amoeboid ovum. Draw. 
 
 7. General considerations on Hydra. The chief differences that we may 
 note between Hydra and the Protozoa is that it consists of several different kinds 
 of cells, each with specific functions, and that these cells are arranged in definite 
 layers, which foreshadow the systems and organs of the higher animals. To 
 what stage of the embryonic development of the frog does the Hydra correspond? 
 Which of its two layers is the more differentiated and what reason can you give 
 for this? In Hydra, digestive, muscular, reproductive, and nervous (see Hegner, 
 p. 125) systems are present, at least in a simple condition. What systems 
 which the frog has are totally lacking in the Hydra and how does it accomplish 
 the functions performed by those systems when they are present? In what 
 way is the process of digestion in Hydra like that of the frog and in what way 
 like that of the Protozoa (Hegner, p. 127)? 
 
 We may further notice that the Hydra is not merely a collection of many 
 cells of several different kinds but that these cells act together for the general 
 welfare of the animal, and each one is more or less helpless without the others, 
 since it has become specialized for particular functions, and hence cannot success- 
 fully perform all functions like a protozoan cell. Hydra is therefore an individual, 
 a unity produced by co-operation, ruled by a dominant region, the anterior end 
 or head, which, to be sure, is as yet not very distinctly differentiated from the 
 rest of the body. 
 
 B. A COLONIAL COELENTERATE 
 
 For this study either Obelia or Campanularia may be used. As these animals 
 live in the ocean, only preserved material can be obtained. Obtain a preserved 
 colony and examine in a watch glass of water (Hegner, pp. 139-40). 
 
 i. General structure. The coelenterate forms a branching colony of plant- 
 like appearance consisting of a number of individuals, each of which is similar 
 to a Hydra. Identify the rootlike basal branches, the hydrorhiza, by means of 
 
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 which the colony is attached to solid objects, the main stem, or hydrocaulus, 
 and the branches, each one of which terminates in an individual which bears a 
 general resemblance to Hydra, and is called a zooid, hydranth, or polyp. The 
 whole colony is spoken of as a hydroid colony. The zooids are produced by 
 budding from the stems, just as in Hydra. In fact if the buds of Hydra should 
 remain attached to the parent a hydroid colony would be produced. Make a 
 small sketch to show the general appearance of the colony. 
 
 2. Detailed structure. Mount some of the preserved material on a slide 
 or examine the slide of a hydroid in your box. Use the low power. The hydro- 
 caulus and branches are covered by a horny layer, the perisarc, which they secrete. 
 The perisarc extends up around each of the zooids in the form of a wineglass, 
 the hydrotheca. At the base of each branch the perisarc is ringed, probably to 
 make the stem more flexible. Within the perisarc is the coenosarc, a hollow tube 
 comparable to the column of Hydra and consisting, like the latter, of ectoderm, 
 endoderm, and mesogloea. Its cavity is the gastrovascular cavity and is con- 
 tinuous throughout the colony. There are two kinds of zooids. 
 
 a) Nutritive zooids: This is the more abundant kind of zooid. It consists 
 of a cylindrical body from which arises the club-shaped manubrium, terminating 
 in the wide mouth opening. At the base of the manubrium is a circlet of tentacles 
 bearing nematocysts. The hydrotheca has a sort of shelftike extension inward 
 at the point where the body of the zooid continues into the coenosarc. Draw a 
 nutritive zooid. 
 
 b) Gonozooids: These modified zooids will be found where the branches 
 arise from the hydrocaulus. Each is surrounded by a cylindrical case of perisarc, 
 called the gonotheca, open at the end. The gonozooid consists of a central stalk 
 or blastostyle, which is a degenerate nutritive zooid, and a number of saucer- 
 shaped bodies borne upon the blastostyle and almost concealing it from view. 
 The saucer-shaped bodies are medusa buds. They are formed by a process of 
 budding from the blastostyle, and eventually they become free, escape from the 
 gonotheca, and swim about in the water as little bell-shaped animals, called 
 medusae. The medusa is the sexual individual and gives rise to eggs or sperms 
 (on separate medusae) ; the fertilized egg develops into a new colony. Have the 
 assistant show you a medusa. Draw a gonozooid. 
 
 In these colonial coelenterates there exist then three kinds of individuals: 
 the nutritive zooid, whose function is that of food getting; the gonozooid, whose 
 function is to bud off medusae; and the medusa, whose function is reproduction. 
 Such a condition is known as polymorphism, or division of labor, because the 
 organism instead of differentiating into organs for the performance of different 
 functions, as the frog does (which its simple structure does not indeed permit) , 
 differentiates into several kinds of individuals for the performance of various 
 functions. The hydroids also illustrate the principle of metagenesis, or alterna- 
 tion of generations (Hegner, p. 141), that is, the medusa or sexual generation is 
 
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 conceived of as alternating with the hydroid colony, or asexual generation. 
 It would probably be advisable to drop this idea altogether and to regard the 
 medusa simply as the final or adult stage in the development of the organism. 
 
 C. GENERAL SURVEY OF OTHER COELENTERATES 
 
 Study the collection of coelenterates provided for the class, reading what 
 Hegner has to say about them (pp. 139-43). Acquaint yourself with the general 
 appearance of the following chief groups of coelenterates: 
 
 1. The hydroids. These animals are extremely common along the shores 
 of the ocean, forming beautiful plantlike growths on rocks, wharves, plants, 
 shells of animals, etc. Note various types of branching, size and shape of 
 zooids, etc. 
 
 2. Medusae. Medusae, as stated above, are the sexual stage of the hydroid 
 colonies. They are small, gelatinous, bell-shaped animals with tentacles hanging 
 free from the edge of the bell and a mouth dependent from the center of the 
 concave surface of the bell. From the mouth, canals (usually four) radiate to 
 the periphery of the bell and serve as a food-distributing system. A circular 
 muscular shelf, the velum, extends inward from the edge of the bell; its contrac- 
 tions enable the animal to swim. Tlie jelly-like composition of the medusae is 
 due to the enormous development of the mesogloea. 
 
 3. True jellyfishes. These differ from the medusae, which are also often 
 called jellyfishes, through the absence of a velum, larger size and more saucer- 
 like form, and more complicated structure. They usually do not pass through 
 a hydroid stage. 
 
 4. Siphonophora. These strange free-floating hydroid colonies illustrate the 
 principle of division of labor carried to its highest development, since they may 
 consist of seven or eight different types of individuals. The famous Physalia, 
 or Portuguese man-of-war has a large "float" (which is a modified medusa), from 
 the lower side of which the other members of the colony hang down, with long 
 trailing tentacles. The Velella, or purple sail, has a flattened disklike float 
 bearing an erect "sail," with zooids on the under surface of the float. In other 
 types of Siphonophora the float is lacking but the upper part of the colony 
 consists of a circle or a long chain of swimming bells, which are modified medusae. 
 
 5. Sea anemones. These beautiful animals of the seashore are similar in 
 appearance to hydroid polyps, but their internal structure is somewhat more 
 complicated and they have no medusa stage. They have a stout column with 
 an oral disk covered with tentacles. 
 
 6. Stony corals. The common corals which build up the keys and reefs are 
 small animals of the same structure as sea anemones. They secrete an external 
 skeleton of calcium carbonate, which persists after they perish. In all dry speci- 
 mens of coral the animals are of course destroyed, but the cuplike depressions 
 
PHYLUM COELENTERATA 89 
 
 which they occupy in life are readily recognizable. When the cups are incom- 
 plete laterally, so as to be fused into long furrows, the familiar " brain'* corals 
 result. 
 
 7. The horny corals and their relatives include the coral used in jewelry, the 
 organ-pipe coral, and other forms. The animals which secrete these skeletons 
 have eight feathery tentacles. 
 
 8. The sea feathers, sea fans, etc. These plantlike horny skeletons are built 
 up by minute zooids, which occupy the small holes which will be found on closer 
 inspection distributed abundantly over the skeletons. 
 
XI. PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES 
 
 A. PLANARIA 
 
 1. General appearance and behavior. Obtain one of the living animals in 
 a watch glass and examine with a hand lens (Hegner, pp. 153-58). Compare 
 form, symmetry, and arrangement of parts with that of Hydra and the frog. 
 Which of these two animals does it most resemble? What type of symmetry 
 does it possess? Does it have anterior and posterior ends? dorsal and ventral 
 surfaces? Is the head better differentiated than in Hydra? On the dorsal 
 surface of the head is placed a pair of eyes, and each side of the head is extended 
 into a blunt contractile lobe, or auricle. 
 
 Observe the peculiar gliding form of locomotion. To what is it due (^4)? 
 Does the animal exhibit muscular movements also? Do these suggest a better 
 developed muscular system than is present in Hydra? How do the anterior 
 end and auricles behave during locomotion? What does this suggest as to their 
 function? Touch various parts of the animal with a needle and note its behavior 
 and relative sensitivity of different regions. Do you think that Planaria is able to 
 respond more effectively to stimuli and in a greater variety of ways than Hydra ? 
 
 Make an accurate outline drawing several inches long of the animal. 
 
 2. Detailed structure. Place a small Planaria on a slide and anaesthetize 
 with a few grains of chloretone 04). After it has become motionless, turn it 
 ventral surface up and cover with a cover glass, pressing gently so as to flatten 
 the animal. If a cover glass is not heavy enough, use a piece of thin slide. The 
 animal must not be crushed. Examine under the low power of the microscope. 
 
 a) General regions and surface of the body: The narrow clear border of the 
 animal is the ectoderm, the central branching dark brown or gray material is the 
 entoderm, and the lighter brown material between these two is the mesoderm. 
 Focus on the surface of the body and note the numerous minute pigment granules 
 which give the animal its dark color. Focus on the ectoderm with the high power, 
 and observe the numerous rodlike bodies, placed at right angles to the surface, 
 which it contains. These are called rhabdites, and when discharged on the 
 surface they soften to produce mucus. The ectoderm is clothed with cilia, 
 particularly on the ventral surface, and these may be seen by focusing on the 
 edge of the ectoderm. 
 
 b) Sense organs of the head: Examine an eye. It consists of a clear area, 
 where the sensory cells are located, and a crescent-shaped mass of very black, 
 closely packed granules, whose function apparently is to concentrate the light 
 upon the sensory cells by, preventing reflection and diffusion. As the eye of 
 
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PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES 91 
 
 Planaria has no lens it cannot perceive objects but can only distinguish different 
 degrees of intensity of light. The general body surface of Planaria is also 
 sensitive to light but less so than the eyes. The pointed tip of the head and the 
 auricles appear lighter in color than the rest of the body. They are important 
 sensory areas, containing a variety of sensory cells, principally for contact and 
 chemical sense, the latter essential to the detection of food. 
 
 c) The digestive system: In the center of the body is an oval clear region, the 
 pharyngeal chamber, in which is located a cylindrical contractile tube, the 
 pharynx. The pharynx is attached at its anterior end to the wall of the pharyngeal 
 chamber, and its free posterior end has a wide opening. The pharyngeal cham- 
 ber opens on the ventral surface by the mouth, which appears as a small circular 
 clear area, devoid of granules, situated in the median line anterior to the posterior 
 end of the pharynx. When the animal feeds, the free end of the elastic pharynx 
 is protruded as a proboscis through the mouth. The student should understand 
 clearly the relations of mouth, pharynx, and pharyngeal chamber and have the 
 assistant make further explanations, if necessary. 
 
 At its anterior end the pharynx opens into the intestine or digestive tract 
 proper (the pharynx being really an outgrowth of the body wall), which divides 
 at once into three main branches, a median anterior branch extending forward 
 as far as or between the eyes, and two posterior branches which pass backward, 
 one on each side of the pharyngeal chamber, to the posterior end. Each main 
 branch gives off numerous side branches or diverticula, often very irregular in 
 form, and these may make secondary fusions to form further longitudinal 
 branches. The digestive tract generally appears gray or brown and is easily 
 seen if the animal is well pressed out and more than the usual amount of light 
 admitted through the diaphragm. 
 
 Add to your outline drawing these details of structure. 
 
 The digestive canal of Planaria, although commonly called intestine, differs 
 from the true intestines of the higher animals in that it consists of a single layer 
 of cells, the entoderm, and is not separated from the other structures of the body 
 as a definite tube. It is in reality much more comparable to the wall of the 
 gastrovascular cavity of Hydra and its cavity corresponds completely to this 
 cavity in Hydra, except that it is more branched and hence more effective as a 
 food-distributing system. 
 
 d) Other systems of Planaria: The animal has well-differentiated nervous, 
 excretory, and reproductive systems, but unfortunately these are difficult or 
 impossible to study. Read carefully Hegner's description of them (pp. 155-57). 
 In the nervous system note especially the concentration of nervous tissue in the 
 head between the eyes, constituting the beginning of a brain. The structure 
 of the excretory system should also be carefully studied, as it is constructed upon 
 a primitive plan from which the excretory systems of nearly all animals, including 
 the vertebrates, can be derived. 
 
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 3. Study of the microscopic structure. The slides contain sections in front 
 of, through, and behind, the pharynx. All three sections should be made use 
 of in the following examination. 
 
 The structure of Planaria differs from that of Hydra in that a third layer, 
 the mesoderm, composed of muscles and connective tissue is present between 
 the ectoderm and entoderm. Planaria is therefore a triploUastic animal, con- 
 sisting of three germ layers. In the sections the ventral side is the flattened side ; 
 the dorsal side the convex side. 
 
 a) Ectoderm: This forms a thin layer of ciliated epithelial cells, the epidermis. 
 In the epidermis may be distinguished rodlike bodies, the rhabdites, which when 
 discharged swell and form mucus and mucus cells, containing granules which are 
 also discharged to form mucus. These mucus cells are unicellular glands. 
 
 b) Mesoderm: Just under the epidermis is a thin layer of circular muscle 
 cells. Within these is a rather indefinite layer of longitudinal muscle cells 
 which appear as circles. There are also dorsoventral muscles, extending between 
 the dorsal and ventral sides, between the branches of the digestive tract. The 
 rest of the mesoderm forms a characteristic connective tissue, called parenchyma, 
 which consists of branching cells and fills up all space between the ectoderm and 
 entoderm so that a coelome is not present. 
 
 c) Entoderm: Each section contains several circular hollow masses which 
 are the cross-sections of the digestive tract. The wall of the digestive tract 
 consists of a single layer of elongated epithelial cells, which are the entoderm 
 cells. These are generally so vacuolated and full of food material as to be almost 
 unrecognizable. 
 
 d) The pharynx: The pharynx lies in a central cavity, the pharyngeal cham- 
 ber. On some slides the ventral opening of this chamber, the mouth opening, 
 may be present. The pharynx is an outgrowth of the body wall which has come 
 to lie in a depression of the body wall, the pharyngeal chamber. The pharyngeal 
 chamber is therefore lined with ectoderm, and the pharynx is covered and lined 
 with ectoderm, the same as the outer layer of the body. The remainder of the 
 pharynx is mesodermal, consisting of circular, longitudinal, and radiating muscle 
 fibers, which the student should by this time be able to recognize, and parenchyma 
 between these. 
 
 e) The ventral nerve cords: These can usually be recognized (best on sections 
 anterior to the pharynx) as pale, round areas, near the ventral surface, about 
 one-third to nearly one-half of the distance out from the median line. The 
 pale portion consists of nerve fibers; often a few nerve cells, large cells with 
 large nuclei, will be found along the dorsal border of the mass of fibers. Make 
 a diagram of the cross-section through the pharynx. 
 
 4. Feeding experiment. Demonstration. Observe the behavior of Planaria 
 when meat is put into the pan. Do they recognize the presence of food? 
 How? After the animals have attached themselves to the meat gently lift one 
 
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 up and observe quickly the white protruded pharynx which is inserted into 
 the meat. 
 
 5. Regeneration. To save time and material members of each table may 
 work together on the following experiment: Obtain several finger bowls and 
 glass covers for them and wash both thoroughly. Take several Planaria and 
 cut them up into pieces of various shapes and sizes. Cut some very small 
 pieces. The animals are best cut by placing them on a glass plate, waiting until 
 they extend to their full length, and then making cuts with a quick, firm stroke 
 of a sharp scalpel. Place the pieces in the finger bowls with plenty of water, 
 cover with glass plates, keep out of the sun, and change the water every few days. 
 Examine at each laboratory period to observe the progress of the regeneration. 
 Make a series of simple outline drawings to show the changes in form from day 
 to day. 
 
 Is any piece of Planaria capable of regenerating a whole worm? Are any 
 differences apparent due to differences in size or shape of the original pieces? 
 Do very small pieces regenerate as well as larger ones? 
 
 6. General considerations on Planaria. What systems does Planaria possess 
 in common with Hydra? Are these better developed in Planaria than in 
 Hydra? What system is present in Planaria which was entirely lacking in 
 Hydra ? What systems are absent in Planaria which the frog possesses? What 
 type of tissue is present in Planaria which Hydra lacked? How do the muscle 
 systems of the two animals differ? Is the digestive tract of Planaria a gastro- 
 vascular system as in Hydra, i.e., both digestive and distributive? Does 
 Planaria still retain the protozoan method of digestion, as in Hydra (Hegner, 
 p. 155)? What is the essential difference between cross-sections of Hydra and 
 Planaria? Understand fully what are the corresponding layers in the two ani- 
 mals. To what stage in the development of the frog may the Planaria be com- 
 pared? 
 
 B. GENERAL SURVEY OF OTHER FLATWORMS 
 
 Examine the specimens provided and familiarize yourself with the following 
 groups of flatworms: 
 
 1. Free-living flatworms or Turbellaria. These are slender, flat animals 
 similar in appearance to Planaria, living in water or damp places, never of large 
 size, often quite small. If living forms other than Planaria are available they 
 will be demonstrated to you. 
 
 2. Flukes or trematodes. These flatworms are external or internal parasites 
 on other animals, particularly on vertebrates. They are broad, flattened, often 
 leaflike animals, provided with suckers and hooks for adhesion to their hosts. 
 The liver fluke, one of the largest forms, lives in the bile ducts of sheep and 
 other domestic animals. The assistant should demonstrate living flukes para- 
 sitic in the frog. The commonest are the lung fluke, Pneumoneces, found inside 
 
 
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 of the lungs of the frog; the bladder fluke, Gorgoderina, inside the urinary bladder; 
 and Clinostomum, occurring in cysts in the peritoneum. Eggs and embryos of 
 flukes frequently occur in the frog also. 
 
 3. Tapeworms or cestodes. The tapeworms are degenerate flatworms living 
 as internal parasites, commonly in the digestive tracts of vertebrates. They 
 are extremely long, tapelike animals, as the name implies, with a small head, 
 provided with hooks or suckers or both for clinging, and a body made up of a 
 great number of joints, or proglottids. Each proglottid contains a complete 
 set of the complicated reproductive organs, and when ripe they drop off from 
 the posterior end of the worm so as to infect new animals. 
 
XH. PHYLUM ANNELIDA 
 
 A. PRELIMINARY STUDY OF NEREIS 
 
 Nereis is an annelid living in the mud along the shores of the ocean. It is 
 a relatively simple annelid and therefore used here to illustrate certain points. 
 The dissection, however, will be done upon the earthworm, a more specialized 
 form, but one more easily dissected. 
 
 i. External anatomy of Nereis. Place a specimen in a dissecting pan. 
 Compare general form and symmetry with animals previously studied. Is it 
 bilaterally symmetrical? The most striking feature of the body is its division 
 into a longitudinal series of rings, called segments, metameres, or somites. In this 
 respect Nereis shows a marked advance over Planaria and resembles the frog. 
 Each segment bears a pair of broad lateral outgrowths, the parapodia, by means 
 of which the animal swims. Distinguish anterior and posterior ends, dorsal 
 (rounded) and ventral (flattened) surfaces. 
 
 a) Head: The first segment of the body is markedly differentiated as a 
 head, which bears a number of sense organs. The head segment consists of two 
 parts, a dorsal squarish projection, the prostomium, which does not extend to 
 the ventral side, and just behind this a complete, ringlike segment, the peri- 
 stomium, which surrounds the mouth. (In most specimens the large pharynj 
 will be found protruded from the mouth so as to extend some distance anterior 
 to the head. This should not be confused with the true head.) 
 
 The sense organs of the head consist of tentacles, palps, and eyes. There are 
 two short terminal tentacles projecting from the middle of the anterior edge of 
 the prostomium. Lateral to these on each side is a thick jointed palp. On the 
 dorsal surface of the prostomium are four eyes, indistinct blackish spots situated 
 so as to form the four corners of a trapezoidal area. The two posterior eyes are 
 likely to be concealed under the anterior edge of the peristomium. The eyes of 
 Nereis are much more complex than those of Planaria and are provided with 
 lenses, so that the animal can probably distinguish objects in a dim way. The 
 peristomium bears four conspicuous, long, lateral tentacles, or cirri, on each side. 
 It is probable that tentacles and palps are organs of touch, contact, chemical 
 sense, etc. It is known that they are thickly strewn with sensory nerve cells. 
 
 The head of Nereis therefore represents another step in advance in the series 
 of animal forms which we are considering in that it is more sharply differentiated 
 from the rest of the body than is the case in the coelenterates and flatworms, 
 and it is provided with a greater variety of sense organs and more complex and 
 sensitive ones. 
 
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 b) Posterior end' The last segment differs from the others in that it bears 
 no parapodia. A central opening, the anus, is present, and two long tentacles, 
 or cirri, project from the segment. The presence of the anus marks another 
 advance over the previous forms in which the digestive tract has only one 
 opening. In this respect again Nereis resembles the frog. 
 
 c) Remainder of the body: Note that with the exception of the first and last 
 segments all the segments of the body are alike, not considering minor differences 
 in the size and shape of the parapodia. This similarity of segments is not merely 
 superficial but includes the entire internal anatomy. The same parts will be 
 found repeated in each segment. Nereis is thus an ideal segmented animal. 
 
 d) Parapodium: Cut off one of these with a scissors, mount in water, cover, 
 and examine with the low power of the microscope. The parapodium consists 
 of several lobes, one of which, the gill plate, is very large and leaflike, and serves 
 as a respiratory organ. In some relatives of Nereis it is transformed into a 
 filamentous branched gill. Observe the stiff bristles, setae or chaetae, which 
 project from the parapodium. They are characteristic annelid structures. 
 
 B. THE ANATOMY OF THE EARTHWORM 
 
 i. External anatomy (Hegner, chap, x, pp. 164-68). Obtain a preserved 
 specimen, place in the dissecting pan, and compare with Nereis as to form, sym- 
 metry, segmentation, etc. Are the two animals similar? Distinguish anterior 
 and posterior ends, dorsal (dark-colored, rounded) and ventral (light-colored, 
 flattened) surfaces. Is the head as well developed as in the case of Nereis? 
 Is this related to the habit of life of the earthworm? The head of Nereis is to be 
 regarded as a typical annelid head, while that of the earthworm is degenerate. 
 Are parapodia present? 
 
 a) Head: The first segment is composed, as in Nereis, of a prostomium, the 
 liplike process dorsal to the mouth opening, and the peristomium, the ring 
 surrounding the mouth. The head of the earthworm probably consists of the 
 first four or five segments, as indicated by experiments in regeneration. No 
 eyes or other sense organs are present on the head (this being also associated 
 with the habits of the earthworm) but numerous sensory cells are imbedded in 
 the epidermis of the head and elsewhere. 
 
 b) Clitellum: Anterior to the middle of the worm a number of swollen 
 segments occur, producing a distinct girdle around the body, called the clitellum. 
 The clitellum is a glandular region which secretes the cocoon in which the eggs 
 of the earthworm are laid. On the ventral surface of the clitellum is a pair of 
 thickened ridges, the tubercula pubertatis. How many segments are there in the 
 clitellum? How many segments anterior to the first clitellar segment? Is 
 this number the same in all individuals? Remember that the prostomium is 
 not a segment. 
 
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 c) External openings: The mouth opening in the peristomium has already 
 been noted. The last segment contains the anus. On the ventral surface of 
 the fifteenth segment is a pair of conspicuous openings with swollen lips, the ends 
 of the male ducts. The openings of the female ducts are on the fourteenth 
 segment and much smaller than the male openings but not especially difficult 
 to find on large specimens. There are also the openings of the two pairs of 
 seminal receptacles on the ninth and tenth segments, a pair of excretory openings 
 on the ventral surface of each segment, except the first three and the last, and 
 dorsal openings, the dorsal pores, connected with the coelome, but all of these 
 are minute and impossible to find. 
 
 d) Setae: The earthworm, like Nereis, bears setae which are arranged in 
 four double longitudinal rows, two ventral and two lateral. Pass your finger 
 up and down the earthworm and feel the setae as rough projections. With a 
 hand lens make out their arrangement on each segment; the anterior part of 
 the body is the most favorable place to see them. They are used by the earth- 
 worm to prevent slipping. Make a diagram, representing a segment as a ring 
 and show the position of the setae on the ring. 
 
 2. Internal anatomy (Hegner, pp. 168-69). 
 
 a) Structure of the body wall, coelome, mesenteries: The body is covered with 
 an iridescent thin cuticle which is secreted by the epidermis. Strip off a small 
 piece, spread out on a slide in a drop of water, cover, and examine with the high 
 power. It shows striations at right angles to each other, which are the cause of 
 the iridescence, and numerous pores, which are the openings of the gland cells 
 of the epidermis to the exterior. Draw a small portion of the cuticle. 
 
 With a scissors cut through the body wall a little to the left of the median 
 dorsal line from a point beginning about an inch behind the clitellum and extend 
 the cut up to the prostomium. Be careful not to cut through anything but the 
 body wall; if black material oozes out you may know that you are cutting into 
 the intestine and should withdraw your scissors and begin again less deeply. Sepa- 
 rate the edges of the cut and look inside. Observe that the body wall is separated 
 from the intestine, the central dark tube, by a distinct space, the coelome. Ob- 
 serve further that this space is not continuous but is divided up into a series of 
 compartments by delicate white partitions, the septa or mesenteries, which 
 extend from the body wall to the intestine. What is the relation of these septa 
 to the external rings? The coelome of the earthworm thus consists of a longi- 
 tudinal series of chambers, which are paired, that is, one on each side, the intestine 
 being inclosed between the two members of each pair. The inner walls of each 
 pair of coelomic compartments therefore meet above and below the intestine 
 to form dorsal and ventral mesenteries, although these are no longer complete 
 in the adult worm. The anterior and posterior walls of each compartment 
 come in contact with the walls of those in front of and behind it, producing 
 double- walled partitions, the septa already mentioned. The outer wall of the 
 
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 compartment is fused with the inside of the body wall, forming a parietal peri- 
 toneum, while the inner wall is similarly attached to the intestine, forming a 
 visceral peritoneum. The relations therefore of the coelome and its linings are 
 identical with those that we found in the frog, except that the segmental septa 
 are absent in the latter. 
 
 Cut through the septa so that you can lay out the body wall. In this opera- 
 tion it is best to stick a pin through the body wall on the left side; then lift up 
 the other side of the cut and cut through the septa and pin out the right side; 
 then move forward a short distance and repeat. Do not pull the wall apart 
 but cut the septa with a fine scissors. Stick the pins in obliquely and firmly 
 so that they will not get in your way and will not come out. Open up the body 
 to the prostomium. Note the iridescent membrane, the peritoneum, which lines 
 the body wall. Cover the animal completely with water. 
 
 Before beginning a detailed dissection of the various systems, the following 
 conspicuous structures should be identified. The center of the body is occupied 
 by the long brownish intestine. In the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth segments 
 are pairs of large white bodies. These are the seminal vesicles, part of the male 
 reproductive system. In the ninth and tenth segments are pairs of small white 
 spherical bodies, the seminal receptacles, part of the female reproductive system. 
 Loose white objects on each side of the intestine along its entire length are the 
 excretory organs, or nephridia. 
 
 b) The circulatory system: This system is difficult and unsatisfactory to 
 make out in dissection owing to the small size of the vessels, and the student is 
 referred to Hegner (pp. 172-75) for details. The following parts should be noted: 
 
 (1) The dorsal blood vessel: This is the dark brownish line running along the 
 median dorsal surface of the intestine. In many specimens the two pairs of 
 branches which it receives in each segment from the wall of the intestine can be 
 seen. Its branches from the body wall (torn off, of course) may also be found 
 sometimes. Look for these. 
 
 (2) The hearts: Remove the seminal vesicles from the left side. Note that 
 in the region where they were located and for some distance anterior to this the 
 septa are stronger and more conspicuous than elsewhere, projecting out from 
 the intestine like wings. Look in the eleventh segment, between the places 
 occupied by the second and third seminal vesicles, for a pair of stout tubes 
 arising from the dorsal vessel and extending ventrally. They are often dark- 
 colored because of contained blood. Then look in each segment forward from 
 this up to the sixth for a similar pair of tubes, grasping the winglike septa with 
 a forceps and pulling them backward. These branches of the dorsal vessel, 
 found in the seventh to the eleventh segments, are contractile tubes, inappro- 
 priately called hearts. The first pair is quite small. More than five pairs are 
 sometimes found. Follow the dorsal vessel forward as far as you can beyond the 
 region of the hearts. 
 
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 (3) The ventral blood vessel: Loosen up the intestine completely on the left 
 side so that it can be pressed over to the right side to enable you to see the 
 median ventral line. Look here on the underside of the intestine for a brownish 
 line, the ventral blood vessel. It is easiest to see under the dilated portion of 
 the intestine behind the region of the seminal vesicles. Look for branches of 
 the ventral blood vessel to the intestine, body wall, and the nephridia. Trace 
 the connection of the hearts with the ventral blood vessel and follow the latter 
 forward as far as you can. 
 
 (4) The subneural vessel: Directly under the ventral blood vessel is a white 
 line, the ventral nerve cord. Cut this through at some convenient point back of 
 the region of the hearts, pull up a short strip of it backward, and look on the 
 underside for a longitudinal vessel looking like a dark line running down the 
 middle of the white cord. Its branches from the nephridia and the body wall 
 may sometimes be found. It is called the subneural vessel. 
 
 (5) The intestino-tegumentary vessels: Extending from the tenth segment 
 forward, an extra vessel will be found on each side of the wall of the intestine. 
 Hearts and other structures should be removed to see it. 
 
 Make a drawing from the side of the parts of the circulatory system which 
 you have been able to find. Some specimens will show more of the vessels than 
 others. 
 
 On living earthworms observe the rhythmic contractions of the dorsal vessel. 
 In which direction do the contractions travel? Read Hegner (p. 175) on the 
 course of the circulation in the earthworm. 
 
 c) The digestive system: It consists of the following parts (Hegner, 
 pp. 169-71): 
 
 (1) Buccal pouch: This is a small tube extending from the mouth through 
 about three segments. White, slender, muscle fibers, the dilators of pharynx, 
 attach it to the body wall and allow of its expansion. On the dorsal surface 
 of the buccal pouch, just before the pharynx begins, note the small, white, 
 bilobed brain. 
 
 (2) Pharynx: This is the thick-walled portion following the buccal pouch. 
 The muscular fibers attaching it to the body wall are much more numerous than 
 in the preceding division. 
 
 (3) Esophagus: This long, slender tube extends through the region occupied 
 by the hearts and seminal vesicles. These should be removed from the left side, 
 if not already done, so that it can be clearly seen. In its wall in the region of the 
 seminal vesicles are three pairs of brownish projections, the calciferous glands, 
 said to secrete calcium carbonate into the digestive tract. 
 
 (4) Crop: The esophagus leads into the large thin-walled crop, which acts 
 as a storage reservoir for food. 
 
 (5) Gizzard: Immediately posterior to the crop is the very thick-walled 
 gizzard, in which the food is ground to small particles. 
 
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 (6) Intestine: From the gizzard the brown thin-walled intestine extends 
 straight posteriorly to the anus. Its brown color is due to peculiar cells, the 
 chlorogogue cells, which cover it. Cut open the intestine for a short distance 
 along one side, wash it out and observe a thickening in its median dorsal wall. 
 This thickening, the typhlosole, is a longitudinal infolding of the dorsal wall, 
 apparently for the purpose of increasing the absorbing surface of the intestine, 
 for which function it is still further folded by transverse grooves. 
 
 Draw, showing all parts of the digestive system in relation to the segments, 
 properly numbered. This drawing may be combined with that of the circu- 
 latory system, if desired. 
 
 d) The excretory system (Hegner, pp. 175-76): The excretory system of 
 the earthworm consists of a pair of coiled tubes in each segment (except the 
 first three and the last). Each tube is called a nephridium. The main part 
 of each nephridium consists of a tube coiled transversely in the coelome of the 
 segment and opening to the exterior of that segment by a nephridiopore. The 
 beginning of the coiled tube is situated, however, in the segment anterior to the 
 one where the main structure is located; the tube penetrates the septum and 
 opens into the coelome of the preceding segment by a funnel, called the nephro- 
 stome. The nephridia are readily recognizable as the white loose structures 
 on the sides of the digestive tract. Extend your original incision about one inch 
 backward, this time exactly in the median dorsal line. Open out the wall as 
 before by cutting the septa. Pull out the intestine. Pin out the body wall 
 tightly. Observe with the hand lens the paired nephridia in each segment. By 
 manipulating the septa you should have no difficulty in seeing the tube pene- 
 trating the septum and ending in the segment in front by the funnel, appearing 
 as a white spot. Cut out a nephridium as completely as possible, mount on a 
 slide in water, and cover. Examine with the low power. Identify the nephro- 
 stome (see Hegner, Fig. 89, p. 176); the thin tube which passes through the 
 septum, and forms the first slender loop of the coiled portion; and the remaining 
 wider loops. 
 
 e) The reproductive system: The dissection of the reproductive system is 
 rather difficult and should be attempted only on large and well-preserved speci- 
 mens. By constant reference to Hegner (Fig. 93, p. 181) and by exercising the 
 utmost care in dissection the student will probably be able to find the parts of 
 the reproductive system. As in Planaria, a complete set of both male and female 
 organs occurs in the earthworm, that is, it is hermaphroditic. 
 
 The right side of your specimen has been preserved intact for this dissection. 
 Remove the esophagus carefully from the region of the seminal vesicles (no farther) 
 and study their arrangement. The first pair are rounded sacs projecting forward 
 into the ninth segment above the first pair of seminal receptacles. The second 
 vesicles are more elongated and folded and occupy the eleventh segment. The 
 third vesicles are the largest and are much folded, occupying the twelfth and 
 
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 part of the thirteenth segments. The three pairs are united by median masses 
 located in the tenth and eleventh segments. Locate the fifteenth segment and 
 stick a pin into it as a landmark. Gently press the vesicles and intestine to the 
 left and pull off the nephridia from the right ventral body wall by grasping their 
 free ends. Stretch out the right ventral wall tightly. Locate on it the ventral 
 edge of the dorsal longitudinal muscle band, extending as a longitudinal line. 
 Within and in contact with this will be found the lateral setae, projecting inward 
 as minute white elevations, with a slender muscle band between the two members 
 of the pair. One-third of the way between the row of setae and the ventral 
 nerve cord find a white line extending from the middle of the fifteenth segment 
 forward to the tenth. This is the vas deferens or male duct. Examine the septum 
 between the fourteenth and thirteenth segments. The white object in it is the 
 oviduct with a slender tube extending into the fourteenth segment. Then examine 
 the septum between the twelfth and thirteenth segments. A minute white body, 
 the ovary, will be found attached to it. The attached end is the broadest; the 
 free slender pointed end projects backward into the thirteenth segment. If 
 you are in any doubt that you have the ovary, remove it and examine it with 
 the microscope, and the presence of round eggs, the largest of which are in the 
 pointed extremity, will settle the matter. Next look in the twelfth segment 
 for a slender branch extending from the vas deferens over to the fused median 
 portion of the seminal vesicles. Dissect off the roof of the median portion of 
 the seminal vesicle in the eleventh segment and note within its cavity the greatly 
 folded seminal funnel. Anterior to this, attached to the septum between the 
 tenth and eleventh segments, will be found by cautiously picking away the 
 bases of the seminal vesicles a small but distinct round body, the testis. Repeat 
 the directions in the three preceding sentences in the eleventh and tenth segments, 
 and find the anterior branch of the vas deferens, the anterior seminal funnel, and 
 the anterior pair of testes. The mother-cells of the sperm are produced in the 
 testes and set free at an early stage into the seminal vesicles, in which they develop 
 into sperm. Take out a small piece of the seminal funnel, put on a slide in a 
 drop of water, cover, and mash by pressing on the cover glass with the finger 
 and rotating it. Examine with the high power and note the myriads of slender- 
 tailed spermatozoa. The two rounded seminal receptacles in the ninth and tenth 
 segments were previously noted. They receive the sperm from another animal 
 during copulation and are therefore parts of the female system. 
 Draw the reproductive system. 
 
 /) The nervous system: Remove the digestive system as far forward as the 
 pharynx (Hegner, pp. 176-80). The ventral nerve cord, a white cord in the 
 median ventral line, has already been identified. Clean away all tissue conceal- 
 ing it. Examine it with a hand lens and note the enlargements or ganglia which 
 re present in the cord in the middle of each segment and the lateral branches 
 rhich arise from it. Cord and ganglia are really double, formed by the median 
 
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 fusion of two originally separate cords (as in Planaria) , but the double character 
 appears externally only in the anterior part of the system. Trace the nerve 
 cord anteriorly. Loosen the pharynx and turn it forward. Find underneath 
 it the anterior termination of the ventral cord in a large double mass, the sub- 
 esophageal ganglia. Locate the brain on the dorsal side of the buccal pouch and 
 cut away the pharynx and as much of the buccal pouch as you safely can, leaving 
 the brain in place. Note the two cords which extend dorsally from the sub- 
 esophageal ganglia to the brain, forming a circle through which the buccal pouch 
 passes. These cords are called the circumesophageal connectives. Examine the 
 brain and note that it consists of two distinct lobes, the supra-esophageal ganglia. 
 Find the nerves running forward from the brain to the prostomium and from the 
 connectives to the ventral portions of the first segments. 
 
 Draw the nervous system. 
 
 Strip off a piece of the ventral nerve cord, preferably near the anterior end, 
 mount it in water on a slide and examine with the low power. Find out how 
 many lateral nerves pass out from each ganglion and how many arise between 
 the ganglia, and put this in your drawing. You will probably notice the sub- 
 neural blood vessel and its branches on the ventral surface of the cord. Do not 
 confuse these with nerves; they are generally yellowish and hollow, while the 
 nerves are white and longitudinally striped. 
 
 g) Cross-section of the earthworm: Make a straight, clean cut across the earth- 
 worm in the center of a segment, that is, just halfway between two rings. Use 
 the posterior part of the worm which has not been opened. Make another cross- 
 cut near the first one so as to separate off a small section of the worm. Wash 
 out the contents of the intestine in the piece and place it under water with the 
 first cut surface up. Examine with a hand lens. Identify in the body wall 
 the outer white epidermis, and under this the thicker greenish layer composed of 
 longitudinal muscles. Observe in this the four pairs of setae projecting inward 
 dividing the longitudinal muscle coat into bands. Of these identify the dorsal 
 bands, extending from the median dorsal line to the lateral setae, the lateral 
 bands between the lateral and ventral bundles of setae, and the ventral band 
 across the ventral side. Slender bands also exist between the two members of 
 each pair of setae. In the intestine identify the typhlosole. Between the intes- 
 tine and the body wall in the coelome note the long white nephridia, opening to 
 the exterior just outside the ventral setae. In the median ventral line above 
 the ventral muscle band will be found the white section of the nerve cord. Gently 
 lift out the nephridia and observe the septum stretching across the coelome. 
 
 Make a drawing of the cross-section. 
 
 3. Microscopical structure of the earthworm. Examine slide "Lumbricus" 
 (Hegner, Fig. 85, p. 166). 
 
 a) General appearance of the cross-section: Examine with the low power and 
 identify the thick body wall, the coelome between the body wall and the intes- 
 
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 tine, and the intestine with its dorsal infolded typhlosole and outer covering of 
 peculiar large cells. In the body wall, the most conspicuous layer is the feathery 
 layer of longitudinal muscles, which is interrupted in eight places, four lateral 
 and four ventral for the insertion of the setae. These interruptions divide the 
 longitudinal muscle coat into bands, which were noted in the preceding paragraph 
 in the cut surface of the earthworm and should be identified again. Identify 
 the dorsal blood vessel lying above the typhlosole imbedded in the large pear- 
 shaped cells; the ventral blood vessel below the intestine to which it is attached 
 by a ventral mesentery; and the ventral nerve cord just below the ventral blood 
 vessel. In the coelome may be seen traces of nephridia, blood vessels, and septa. 
 Make a diagram of the section. 
 
 b) Structure of the body wall: Examine with the high power, and study the 
 following layers: 
 
 (1) Cuticle: The outermost layer, a thin non-cellular covering. 
 
 (2) Epidermis: This contains about four kinds of cells. The most conspicu- 
 ous are the gland cells, large elliptical cells filled with granules, which are fore- 
 runners of mucus. These gland cells open to the surface by way of the pores 
 already noted in the cuticle. Between the gland cells are interstitial cells, 
 elongated cells with broadened ends. At the bases of the gland and interstitial 
 cells may be noted some small cells, which are sometimes considered to be a 
 second layer. The fourth kind of cell, sensory cells, cannot be seen without 
 special methods of staining (Hegner, Fig. 86, p. 167). 
 
 (3) Circular muscle layer: This consists of very long slender muscle cells 
 imbedded in connective tissue, running circularly. 
 
 (4) Longitudinal muscle layer : This consists of muscle cells like those of the 
 circular layer, but as they run longitudinally they appear in cross-sections as 
 circles or ellipses. These longitudinal muscle cells are mounted on plates or 
 septa of connective tissue, which extend out from the body wall at right angles 
 to it. This arrangement of the muscle cells along these septa gives a feathery 
 appearance in cross-section. The interruptions of the longitudinal muscles for 
 the setae have already been noted. 
 
 (5) Peritoneum: The body wall is lined with peritoneum, a very thin layer 
 of cells applied to the inner surface of the longitudinal muscle layer. 
 
 (6) Setae: If setae are present on your slide note their appearance. They 
 are slender, yellow, curved rods of the same composition as the cuticle and 
 like it secreted by the epidermis. The epidermis turns in to form a sheath 
 around each seta and a sort of cap at the inner end of the seta, where the 
 seta is secreted. From the epidermal sheath and cap muscles may be seen 
 extending to the circular muscle layer. These muscles serve to move the 
 setae in all directions. 
 
 Draw a small portion of the body wall in great detail. 
 
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 c) Structure of the intestinal wall: Examine with the high power. 
 
 (1) Chlorogogue cells: The outer lay^er of the intestine consists of very large, 
 irregular, somewhat pear-shaped cells which are modified peritoneal cells. They 
 are named the chlorogogue cells. . 
 
 (2) Longitudinal muscle layer: At the inner ends of the chlorogogue cells a 
 row of circles, cross-sections of a very thin layer of longitudinally arranged muscle 
 cells, appears. 
 
 (3) Circular muscle layer: A thin layer of circularly arranged muscle cells 
 lies just within the preceding. 
 
 (4) Vascular layer : The blood vessels of the intestine, branches of the dorsal 
 and ventral blood vessels, run in a definite layer in the wall of the intestine just 
 within the circular muscles. Here they form a rich network, appearing in the 
 section as irregular spaces, uniformly stained. 
 
 (3) Lining epithelium: The innermost layer of the intestinal wall, lining the 
 cavity, is an epithelium, consisting of long, slender, ciliated, epithelial cells. 
 This layer is almost as wide as the layer of chlorogogue cells. The nuclei are 
 near the bases of the cells. 
 
 Draw a portion of the intestinal wall in great detail to show these layers. 
 
 d) Structure of the nerve cord: Examine with the high power. The nerve 
 cord is somewhat oval in outline and is covered externally by a sheath consisting 
 of peritoneum, connective tissue, muscles, and blood vessels. Of these the more 
 conspicuous ones are the subneural vessel on the median ventral side and the 
 paired lateral neural vessels, one on each side of the subneural vessel. 
 
 The cord is more or less distinctly divided into two halves by a median parti- 
 tion. On the dorsal side of the cord are three large clear areas, the giant fibers, 
 believed to be nerve fibers which run for long distances in the worm. Each is 
 surrounded by a thick sheath. In the lateral and ventral portions of the cord 
 may usually be seen several large pear-shaped nerve cells, each with a large 
 nucleus and nucleolus. The nerve cells are more abundant if the section has 
 happened to pass through one of the ganglionic swellings of the cord. The rest 
 of the cord consists of cross-sections of nerve fibers, appearing like an open 
 network. 
 
 Draw the section of the nerve cord. 
 
 e) Longitudinal section of the earthworm: Study and identify the parts already 
 seen in the cross-section. Note particularly the septa. 
 
 4. General considerations on the earthworm. What system is present in 
 the earthworm which was lacking in Planaria? What systems which the frog 
 possesses are lacking in the earthworm? How do you think the earthworm 
 compares with the frog with respect to differentiation of organs and systems? 
 What particular system shows the least advance over the same one in Planaria 
 and least resembles that of the frog? In what ways does the digestive tract of 
 the earthworm differ from that of Planaria and resemble that of the frog? In 
 
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 the cross-section of the earthworm what striking differences from the cross- 
 section of Planaria are apparent? Are the layers of the body wall of the earth- 
 worm the same in general as those of the body wall of the frog? those of the 
 intestine of the two animals? In comparing the cross-sections of Hydra, 
 Planaria, earthworm, and frog one may note the following points: the gastro- 
 vascular cavity of the two former animals corresponds to the cavity of the intes- 
 tine of the two latter; the lining epithelium of the intestine in earthworm and 
 frog is the entoderm; the epidermis, the ectoderm; and all of the tissue in 
 between is mesoderm. 
 
 C. GENERAL SURVEY OF ANNELIDS 
 
 1. Polychaetes. The polychaetes are the group of marine annelids to 
 which Nereis belongs. They are characterized by the possession of parapodia. 
 Examine the various specimens available. Note form and segmentation of the 
 body, development of parapodia, presence and location of gills (slender respiratory 
 processes, often arranged in clumps), degree of development of the head. Many 
 of the polychaetes live in tubes secreted by themselves, and hence the parapodia 
 and head regions are often degenerate. 
 
 2. Leeches. Leeches are common annelids of fresh water, readily distin- 
 guished by the presence of two suckers, one at each end of the body. Examine 
 the specimens. Are parapodia or setae present? 
 
 3. Oligochaetes. This group includes all of the earthworms, of which there 
 are many different kinds, similar, however, in structure, and also a number of 
 small annelids, which live in fresh water. Some of these latter, known as naids, 
 are often found in Protozoan cultures (see p. 80, le). Other of the fresh-water 
 oligochaetes, known as tubificids, live in tubes in the mud in the bottom of ponds 
 and streams; their posterior ends project into the water and carry on a constant 
 undulatory motion for respiratory purposes. 
 
XIII. PHYLUM ARTHROPOD A 
 
 A. THE ANATOMY OF THE LOBSTER (OR CRAYFISH) 
 
 For this study either the lobster or the crayfish may be employed, although 
 the former is preferable because of its greater size. The slight differences 
 between the anatomy of these two animals are noted in the course of the out- 
 line (Hegner, chap, xi, pp. 193-225). 
 
 i. External anatomy. Obtain a preserved specimen and place in a dissecting 
 pan. The animal has a hard external covering, the exoskeleton, which cor- 
 responds to the cuticle of the earthworm, and it is a secretion of the ectoderm. 
 It is composed of chitin, rendered hard by the deposit of calcium carbonate in it. 
 Identify anterior and posterior ends, dorsal and ventral surfaces. Is the animal 
 bilaterally symmetrical? Is it segmented? Is it clearly segmented along the 
 whole axis of the body, like the annelids? What part of the body is most evi- 
 dently segmented? what least? 
 
 The body differs greatly from the other invertebrates studied and resembles 
 the frog in that it is divided into definite regions, the head, thorax, and abdomen. 
 Head and thorax are, however, more or less fused into one region, called the 
 cephalothorax. The single piece of the exoskeleton which covers the cephalo- 
 thorax dorsally and laterally is called the carapace. A groove runs across the 
 mid-dorsal region of the carapace and obliquely forward on either side. This 
 is the cervical groove and separates the head in front from the thorax behind. 
 Segmentation has been lost on the dorsal side of the cephalothorax through 
 fusion of segments. 
 
 Another striking difference between the lobster and the other invertebrates 
 previously studied is the presence of jointed appendages. Each, segment of the 
 body is represented by a pair of appendages, and it is thus possible to determine 
 the number of segments even where the lines between them have been lost by 
 fusion. In many arthropods, however, some of the appendages have been lost 
 also, so that the determination of the number of segments in the body is some- 
 times a matter of great difficulty. 
 
 a) The head: The head terminates anteriorly in a spiny pointed projection 
 of the carapace, the rostrum. The head is provided with a number of sense 
 organs, exceeding, in vaiiety and complexity, those of the lower invertebrates. 
 There is a pair of large, stalked, movable eyes, which are probably not appendages. 
 In front of the eyes occurs the first pair of appendages, the antennules, short, 
 forked filamentous outgrowths. Just below these is the second pair of append- 
 ages, the antennae, long, flexible, many-jointed structures. Both antennae and 
 
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 antennules have tactile and chemical functions. On the ventral side of the 
 head are additional appendages belonging to the head, surrounding the mouth 
 and used for tasting, handling, and tearing food. These will be studied later. 
 
 b) The thorax: Two longitudinal lines on the dorsal surface of the thorax 
 divide the carapace into a median cardiac region, covering the heart, and two 
 broad, curved, lateral branchial regions, which cover the chamber containing the 
 gills. The ventral side of the thorax bears five pairs of walking legs, of which 
 the anterior pair is modified into large pincers; some of the appendages in front 
 of the pincers also belong to the thorax. 
 
 c) The abdomen: The abdomen is plainly divided into seven joints or seg- 
 ments, six of which bear appendages, used for swimming. The first pair of 
 abdominal appendages in male and female lobsters and in female crayfishes 
 and the first two pairs in male crayfishes are modified for sexual purposes. The 
 last pair of abdominal appendages is greatly broadened and forms with the last 
 abdominal segment a broad swimming fan. The last segment, or telson, has 
 no appendages and bears the anus on its median ventral surface. There is some 
 doubt that the telson is a true segment. 
 
 d) Study of a typical segment and pair of appendages: As the abdominal 
 segments are more distinct and less modified than the other segments, one of 
 them, as the third or fourth, may be selected for study. Such a segment has 
 the general shape of a ring, as in the annelids. Its exoskeletal covering may 
 be divided into a convex dorsal portion, the tergum, a thin lateral plate, the 
 pleuron, extending free ventrally into a point, and a slender ventral bar, the 
 sternum. The region between the pleuron and the base of the appendage 
 receives the name of epimeron. Between successive segments occur thin arthro- 
 podial membranes, where the calcareous deposit is lacking; these are best seen 
 on the ventral surface between successive sterna, and they permit movement 
 of the segments upon one another. Examine the joints between segments at 
 the pleura; determine how they work by bending and straightening the abdomen. 
 
 Between the base of the pleuron and the sternum of the segment is a round 
 area, into which the appendage is fastened by means of an arthropodial mem- 
 brane. Cut through this membrane and remove a complete appendage. It has 
 the following parts: It springs from the segment by a basal stem, the protopod. 
 This really consists of two joints, a very small basal piece, the coxopod, and a 
 long distal part, the basipod. From the basipod arise two flattened, many- 
 jointed plates. The outer of these is the exopod; the inner one, next the median 
 line, the endopod. Make a diagram of an ideal cross-section of the segment 
 with its pair of appendages. 
 
 This type of appendage found on the abdominal segments is called the two- 
 forked or biramous appendage. It is supposed to be the primitive arthropod 
 appendage, all other kinds of appendages found in arthropods being derived 
 from it by modification. Theoretically, the original arthropod consisted of a 
 
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 series of segments, like the abdominal segments of the lobster, all bearing 
 biramous appendages. 
 
 e) Comparative study of the appendages: The appendages will be studied by 
 comparing them with the typical biramous appendage described in the preceding 
 section, and determining what modifications have occurred. Consult Hegner, 
 Table VII (pp. 197-99). 
 
 (1) The abdominal appendages: These are designated as swimmerets, since 
 they are employed in swimming. In the female they also serve as places of 
 attachment of the eggs (Hegner, p. 213). The swimmerets of the second to 
 fifth abdominal segments are very similar to the typical appendage already 
 described. The sixth pair of swimmerets, called the uropods, is greatly enlarged 
 and forms with the telson a powerful swimming organ, the tail fan. Determine 
 other differences between the uropods and the other swimmerets. The first 
 pair of swimmerets hi the female lobster and crayfish is greatly reduced but 
 otherwise similar to the others. The first pair of swimmerets in the male lobster 
 and the first and second pairs in the male crayfish are modified for the transference 
 of the sperm to the female. They consist of protopod and endopod fused into 
 a hard, pointed, grooved structure. Exopod is lacking, except in the second 
 pair of the crayfish, where it appears as a soft, slender, lateral process. 
 
 (2) The thoracic appendages: Remove the branchial region of the carapace 
 from the left side by lifting it up and cutting away the free portion. The branchial 
 chamber is thus exposed. Observe that all of the thoracic appendages have gill- 
 bearing processes extending up into the branchial chamber. The thoracic 
 appendages comprise five pairs of walking legs, called pereiopods, and three 
 pairs of smaller appendages, called maxillipeds, anterior to them. 
 
 Remove completely the left third maxilliped, the appendage just in front of 
 the large pincers. Be sure to get the gill-bearing process with it. Cut through 
 the arthropodial membrane at the base and gently detach the appendage. The 
 basal joint, the coxopod, of the third maxilliped bears a delicate, hairy, leaflike 
 expansion, the epipod, to which a feathery gill is attached. Notice the great 
 freedom of movement of the coxopod and explain. The next joint distal to the 
 coxopod is the basipod. From it arise two branches, an inner endopod, consisting 
 of five joints, and an outer exopod, of many small joints. The maxilliped is 
 therefore a biramous appendage, similar to the swimmeret, but showing a process 
 of reduction of the exopod. The basal joint of the endopod has a row of hard 
 teeth, used in crushing food. 
 
 Remove the left second pereiopod with all of its parts and compare with the 
 third maxilliped, placing both before you in the same position. The pereiopod 
 has a coxopod with an epipod and gill, a basipod, and an endopod of five joints. 
 The comparison shows, however, that the exopod is completely lacking, and the 
 pereiopod is therefore a uniramous appendage. Observe the pincer at the end 
 of the pereiopod and determine how it arose. 
 
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 Examine the other pereiopods, comparing them with the second one and 
 noting differences. Do all have pincers, epipods, gills? By moving the legs, 
 note how the gills are moved. In what directions can the legs be moved upon 
 the body? In what directions can the joints of the leg be moved upon 
 each other? 
 
 The first pair of pereiopods is greatly enlarged, with a powerful pincer, or 
 chela. Note that the two chelae of the lobster are not alike, but one is massive 
 with broad crushing surfaces, called the cracker claw, and the other sharper and 
 more slender, with little teeth, known as the toothed claw. 
 
 On the inner side of the coxopod of the third pereiopods of the female find 
 the female genital openings. The male genital openings are in the same place 
 on the fifth pereiopods. 
 
 Draw the third maxilliped and the second pereiopod in the same positions. 
 
 Next remove the left second maxilliped complete. Compare with the third 
 maxilliped. Does it have the same parts? Notice reduction of the epipod and 
 gill and the presence of only four joints in the endopod. 
 
 Remove the first maxilliped, and compare with the other two. Does it have 
 an epipod? gill? Observe particularly that the appendage has become more 
 broadened and leaflike. This is due to the moving of the coxopod and basipod 
 from their original basal position to form the medial side of the appendage. The 
 endopod is thus shoved laterally. Endopod and exopod of the first maxilliped 
 are slender processes of about equal size, the exopod resting in a groove of the 
 endopod. Endopod is thus gradually being reduced, consisting now of but two 
 segments, and the two segments of the protopod are being gradually broadened 
 and shifted to the inside. There is thus produced the foliaceous type of 
 appendage. 
 
 The thorax therefore has eight pairs of appendages, the three pairs of maxil- 
 lipeds and the five pairs of pereiopods, and consists of eight segments. 
 
 (3) The head appendages: The head has five pairs of appendages, omitting 
 the eyes. These are, beginning with the most posterior, two pairs of maxillae, 
 a pair of mandibles, the antennae, and the antennules. 
 
 Examine the second maxilla in place. Does it have an epipod? gill? Observe 
 that the epipod is continuous with an anterior process, which is the exopod, the 
 whole forming an elongated blade, pointed at both ends, which fits into the 
 anterior end of the branchial chamber. This blade, the bailer or scaphognathite, 
 moves back and forth, drawing a current of water through the branchial chamber 
 over the gills from the posterior end of the chamber forward. Within the exopod 
 is a slender endopod, still further reduced and consisting of but one joint, and 
 within this the expanded protopod, with four processes. The second maxilla is 
 thus decidedly foliaceous. Remove it and draw. 
 
 The first maxilla is a reduced foliaceous appendage. Its two inner thin plates 
 are the protopod ; the outer slender process is the endopod, exopod being absent. 
 
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 Remove the first maxilla. The small process in front of it is not considered to be 
 an appendage but is a part of the lower lip. 
 
 The heavy mandible is now exposed. It consists of a single triangular 
 piece with strong teeth upon its inner edge; and a small palp, probably the 
 endopod, folded beneath the toothed margin. Spread the mandibles apart so 
 as to see the mouth opening. In front of the mouth opening is the cushion-like 
 upper lip, or labrum. 
 
 Examine the antenna. In the middle of the ventral surface of its basal 
 segment (coxopod) find the renal opening, the opening of the excretory organ. 
 The long many-jointed filament is the endopod; the thin sharp projection near 
 the base of the filament is the exopod. Draw the antenna. 
 
 The antennule or first antenna has a protopod of three joints from which 
 arise two short many-jointed filaments, which are probably exopod and endopod. 
 
 This investigation of the appendages shows that there are at least five seg- 
 ments to the head, eight to the thorax, and six to the abdomen, or nineteen 
 appendage-bearing segments. If the telson is a segment, as seems reasonable, 
 the lobster consists of twenty segments. Some zoologists believe that the eyes 
 also represent a segment and raise the number to twenty-one, but considering 
 that eyes occur on unsegmented animals it seems probable that they are not a 
 pair of appendages homologous to the others. 
 
 /) The respiratory system and the branchial chamber (Hegner, p. 204) : Study 
 the arrangement of the gills, or respiratory organs, in the left branchial chamber, 
 where they have already been exposed. We have noted that one gill is fastened 
 to the epipod of most of the thoracic appendages. Such gills fastened to append- 
 ages are called podobranchiae. Remove the podobranchia and epipod from the 
 third pereiopod, and observe that two more gills are situated beneath it attached 
 to the arthropodial membrane. These are arthrobranchiae. In the lobster there 
 is still a third set of gills, seen by removing the arthrobranchiae. Under the 
 two arthrobranchiae note a gill fastened to the wall of the thorax and hence 
 called a pleurobranchia. Each thoracic segment has therefore typically four 
 gills, but not all of them possess the full number, as the student may readily 
 discover. The crayfish has no pleurobranchiae. 
 
 Cut off one of the gills and examine its structure. It consists of a central 
 axis bearing numerous delicate threadlike filaments. Examine the cut surface 
 of the axis and note the two canals which it contains, one for blood to enter the 
 filaments, the afferent vessel, and one for it to leave the filaments, the efferent 
 vessel. Note the hole left in the thoracic wall where the gill was removed through 
 which the blood vessels pass. 
 
 Remove all the gills from the branchial chamber and note that the segmenta- 
 tion of the thorax is now visible. Examine the region where the extension of the 
 carapace over the branchial chamber was cut off and see that this extension was 
 
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 not really the sides of the thorax (which are concealed by the gills)but merely a 
 downward fold from the median cardiac region. 
 
 g) The special sense organs: These are best studied before the animal is 
 dissected. The body and appendages of the lobster bear innumerable hairs, 
 many of which are sensory hairs attached to nerve cells and having tactile 
 functions. Many hairs upon the antennules, antennae, and mouth appendages 
 are also organs of taste and general chemical sense. The head appendages are 
 more sensitive than the others. 
 
 The eyes of the lobster are compound eyes, i.e., they are made up of a large 
 number of simple eyes, or ommatidia, which are radially arranged. The cuticle 
 covering the eye is thin, transparent, and flexible, lacking the calcareous deposit. 
 It is called the cornea. Examine it with the hand lens, noting the minute polyg- 
 onal areas of which it is composed. Each of these is the outer end of one of 
 the ommatidia. Make a longitudinal section through the eye and eye stalk 
 with a sharp knife and examine the cut surface. Observe the numerous black 
 ommatidia radiating from a central white region, which is the optic ganglion. 
 Read Hegner (pp. 205-8) and study Fig. 103. Then remove some of the omma- 
 tidia from the section of the eye, tease on a slide in a drop of water, cover, and 
 examine. You should be able to identify the crystalline cone, the rhabdome 
 surrounded by black pigment cells, and the nerve fiber leading away from each 
 ommatidium. 
 
 The statocyst, or organ of equilibrium, is a thin sac located in the basal segment 
 of the antennules. Remove an antennule and cut off the ventral wall of the basal 
 segment of the antennule. This reveals a thin-walled sac containing sand grains, 
 attached to the dorsal wall of the segment. The assistant should demonstrate 
 the crescent of sensory hairs within the sac (read Hegner, p. 208). 
 
 2. The internal anatomy. With a scissors carefully remove piece by piece 
 the whole dorsal half of the body from rostrum to telson, beginning at the anterior 
 end. In doing so the following points are to be observed; hence read the next 
 section before cutting. Be especially careful not to injure the blood vessels, 
 which are injected with a yellow fluid. 
 
 a) Body wall and muscles: Beneath the hard exoskeleton is a thin membrane, 
 the epidermis, which is the ectoderm and secretes the exoskeleton. Various 
 muscles will be found attached to the shell. In the anterior region under the 
 carapace is the large thin-walled stomach from the anterior and posterior ends 
 of which gastric muscles extend to the carapace. At the sides of the posterior 
 end of the stomach, in front of the cervical grooves, is a heavy fan-shaped mass 
 of muscle. This is the mandibular muscle, which moves the mandible. In 
 removing the dorsal exoskeleton of the abdominal segments notice the longi- 
 tudinal muscles attached to them and trace them forward to their origins on the 
 sides of the thorax. They are the extensors of the abdomen, that is, they 
 
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 straighten the abdomen. After the removal of the whole dorsal exoskeleton, 
 and the muscles attached to them, notice the large masses of ventral abdominal 
 muscles, the flexors of the abdomen. Why are they more powerful than the 
 extensors? Remove the left thoracic wall, and observe the forward extension 
 of the flexor muscles to their origins from the lateral and ventral thoracic walls. 
 
 To illustrate the arrangement of muscles in the appendages, examine those 
 of the chela. Cut off the chela from the first pereiopod and then remove the 
 shell from one surface of it. Find within the two muscles, one much larger than 
 the other, and find by pulling upon them their method of attachment and action 
 on the movable part of the pincer. Pick away the muscle fibers and find the 
 strong tendon in the center of the mass. Each joint of each appendage is simi- 
 larly provided with an extensor and a flexor muscle for moving the next joint 
 (see Hegner, p. 209 and Fig. 105). 
 
 We observe that the muscular system of the lobster is highly developed as 
 compared with that of the lower invertebrates which we have studied. In those 
 forms there exist simple cylindrical tubes of muscle fibers, extending lengthwise, 
 and producing merely extension, contraction, or bending of the body. But in 
 the lobster as in the frog separate definite muscles exist having specific actions 
 on various parts of the body, permitting much greater variety and exactness of 
 movement. They have definite origins and insertions on the exoskeleton. Are 
 the abdominal muscles segmentally arranged? 
 
 Place a small piece of muscle on a slide in a drop of water, tease into fibers, 
 cover, and examine. The fibers will be found to be cross-striated, like the volun- 
 tary muscles of the frog. On the other hand, the muscles of the lower inverte- 
 brates are like the smooth involuntary muscles of the frog. 
 
 b) The circulatory system: Your specimen should now have the dorsal and 
 one lateral wall cleaned away so as to expose the viscera. The conspicuous 
 organs are the stomach anteriorly, the heart posterior to this, usually injected 
 with yellow material and with yellow vessels springing from it, and a large white 
 organ, the digestive gland, occupying the sides of the space within the thorax 
 and extending back into the abdomen. 
 
 The space around the heart and between the viscera is not a coelome, as the 
 student might expect, but it is an enormous blood space, or blood sinus, filled 
 in life by blood. The coelome has been greatly reduced, in fact, is practically 
 absent through this great development of blood sinuses. The studies which we 
 have made on the coelomes of the earthworm and the frog should convince the 
 student that this space in the lobster cannot be a coelome because mesenteries 
 are completely lacking. Note that none of the organs are supported by mesen- 
 teries and that there is no peritoneal lining. 
 
 The heart lies free in a large sinus, the pericardial sinus. The following 
 arteries arise from it. From the anterior end of the heart in the median line 
 is the single ophthalmic artery. Trace it forward along the dorsal surface of the 
 
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 stomach and note that it forks to supply the eyes. On each side of the ophthalmic 
 artery arises an antennary artery which curves downward over the digestive 
 gland. Trace it and note its branches to the mandibular muscle, the stomach, 
 the antennae, and the antennules. Directly below the origin of the antennary 
 arteries and from the ventral surface of the heart the paired hepatic arteries 
 extend down into the substance of the digestive gland. From the posterior end 
 of the heart a large vessel, the dorsal abdominal artery, extends backward the 
 whole length of the abdomen, forking in the sixth abdominal segment. It gives 
 branches to the intestine which is immediately beneath it and to the extensor 
 muscles of the abdomen which have been removed. Are its branches segmentally 
 arranged? From the posterior end of the heart at the same point as the origin 
 of the dorsal abdominal artery, another large artery, the sternal artery, arises 
 and proceeds directly ventrally. Push the left digestive gland carefully aside 
 to see it. Its further course will be traced later. 
 
 Make an outline of the lobster from the side as large as your drawing page 
 and in this put the heart and its arteries. Other systems will be added to this 
 later. 
 
 Remove the heart from the body, wash it in water, and note its peculiar 
 angled form. It is generally somewhat distorted by the injection. Find the 
 three pairs of openings, or ostia, in the wall of the heart. One pair is on the dorsal 
 surface, one pair on the ventral surface, and one pair is lateral just under the 
 lateral margins (see Hegner, Fig. 101, facing p. 195). 
 
 The circulatory system of the lobster and other arthropods is an open system, 
 that is, the only definite vessels are the arteries, and the circulation is completed 
 through open spaces, or sinuses. In the lobster the blood passes from the arteries 
 into these sinuses and finally collects into one large sinus, the sternal sinus, in 
 the median ventral line. This will be seen later. It then passes into the gills 
 by the afferent vessels, out by the efferent vessels, already seen in the cross- 
 section of a gill, and back to the pericardial sinus by definite channels. When 
 the heart expands the ostia open and blood is sucked into the heart from the 
 pericardial sinus. The blood is colorless. 
 
 The ophthalmic artery, heart, and dorsal abdominal artery together correspond 
 to the dorsal vessel of the earthworm. In the earthworm, it will be recalled, the 
 entire dorsal vessel is contractile, but in the lobster the power of contractility 
 has become limited to one region, which is enlarged and now designated as a 
 heart. There is also in the lobster a vessel to be seen later which corresponds 
 to the ventral vessel of the earthworm. The student should particularly notice 
 that the segmental vessels, connecting these two in each segment of the earth- 
 worm, are for the most part lacking in the lobster. 
 
 c) The reproductive system: Lying under the heart will be found a pair of 
 slender gonads, white in the male, pinkish in the female. They extend forward 
 almost to the anterior end of the stomach and posteriorly beyond the termination 
 
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 of the digestive gland, in the lobster. (In the crayfish they are shorter and 
 broader, and the posterior part is single.) The two gonads have a slender con- 
 nection just in front of the heart. In the female an oviduct will be found arising 
 from each ovary in the region of the heart. Trace it downward over the surface 
 of the digestive gland into the third leg. In the male the vas deferens arises 
 from the testis in the same region and extends backward to the fifth leg. Soon 
 after leaving the testis the vas deferens presents a bend, then widens and pro- 
 ceeds straight to the external opening. (The vas deferens of the crayfish is 
 greatly coiled.) Draw in the reproductive system in your lateral view of the 
 lobster. 
 
 d) The digestive system: The conspicuous parts of the digestive system are 
 the large thin-walled stomach and the voluminous digestive gland. The latter, 
 a paired white organ filling the greater part of the cavity of the cephalothorax, 
 is often called a "liver," but as it really combines the functions of both a liver 
 and a pancreas it would be more appropriately designated the hepato-pancreas. 
 Observe the lobes and small tubules of which it is composed. Note shape, size, 
 and extent of the digestive gland and enter it on your drawing with very light 
 lines. Then remove the left one completely, noting as you do so the place where 
 it is attached to the posterior end of the stomach by an hepatic duct. 
 
 The removal of the digestive gland exposes the stomach more fully. Observe 
 by pushing the stomach over to the right the short esophagus connecting it with 
 the mouth. The stomach is divided by a constriction into a large anterior cardiac 
 portion, whose wall contains hard ossicles, and a much smaller posterior pyloric 
 portion. The hepatic ducts open into the pyloric portion just above the rounded 
 processes which project downward from its sides. Fastened to each side of the 
 cardiac portion of the stomach will often be found a large mass of crystals, 
 calcareous in composition, called a gastrolith. See Hegner (p. 201) for its pos- 
 sible function. From the end of the pyloric chamber find the slender intestine 
 and trace it to the anus. It makes a deep ventral bend just behind the stomach 
 and then ascends to a position directly beneath the dorsal abdominal artery. In 
 the sixth abdominal segment it gives off a blind dorsal sac, or caecum; from this 
 point to the anus the intestine is called rectum. Draw in these parts of the diges- 
 tive system on your outline of the lobster. 
 
 Remove the stomach, leaving the esophagus in place. Cut it open, wash it 
 out, and examine the interior. Note the hard pieces, or ossicles, in the walls 
 of the cardiac chamber, the paired lateral and single median teeth, and the pro- 
 jecting processes covered with fine silky hairs in the posterior division of the 
 chamber, blocking the passage into the intestine. The teeth and ossicles are a 
 grinding apparatus, called the gastric mill, operated by the gastric muscles 
 attached to the anterior and posterior ends of the stomach; the hairy processes, 
 a straining apparatus, preventing the coarser particles from passing into the 
 intestine. Make a drawing showing the interior of the stomach. 
 
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 e) The excretory system: In the anterior end of the cephalic cavity, inside 
 of the base of the antenna, locate a circular greenish mass, liberally supplied by 
 branches of the antennary artery. This is the excretory organ, commonly 
 called " green gland." It is in reality a modified nephridium, which has lost 
 its funnel-shaped opening into the coelome (since there is no coelome). By 
 carefully spreading it out with a forceps, determine that it is a blind sac, curved 
 upon itself into a circle. The renal opening in the basal joint of the antenna 
 has already been observed. The student should note that while in the annelids 
 there is a pair of such nephridia in practically every segment, in the lobster the} 
 are present in one segment only, the antennary segment. This is anothei 
 example of the loss of segmental structures, which characterizes the arthropods 
 as compared with the annelids. Draw in the green gland on your side view. 
 
 /) The nervous system: Remove all soft parts from the interior, leaving the 
 esophagus and sternal artery in place. First begin in the abdomen and care- 
 fully remove all of the ventral abdominal muscles, noting their segmental arrange- 
 ment and the complex manner in which they loop over one another. In the 
 median ventral line of the abdomen, next to the inner surface of the shell, is a 
 white cord, the ventral nerve cord. In the thoracic region this will be found 
 to disappear into a cavity which is roofed over by hard plates. Clean out the 
 muscles and other soft parts in the thorax until you have exposed these plates. 
 They form an internal skeleton, called the endophragmal skeleton; this is really 
 produced by ingrowth from the exoskeleton. 
 
 The cavity underneath the endophragmal skeleton is the sternal sinus, which 
 was mentioned in connection with the circulatory system as the large sinus in 
 which all of the venous blood collects before going to the gills. In this sinus 
 are also located the nerve cord and the branches of the sternal artery. Remove 
 the endophragmal skeleton by cutting along each side and taking out the middle 
 piece, and trace the nerve cord forward in the sternal sinus to the esophagus. 
 Here note that it forks, passing on each side of the esophagus and uniting again 
 into a bilobed mass just within the region occupied by the eyes. 
 
 The bilobed mass beneath the eyes is the so-called brain, better designated 
 as the supra-esophageal ganglia. It consists of two ganglionic masses fused 
 medially, and sends nerves to the eyes (where they expand into the optic ganglia, 
 situated in the eye stalks), the antennules, and the antennae. The brain, there- 
 fore, represents at least three pairs of ganglia fused together. From the brain 
 arise the two circum-esophageal commissures. Trace these around the esophagus 
 to the large sub-esophageal ganglion, just behind the esophagus. Note branches 
 arising from the circum-esophageal commissures and sub-esophageal ganglion. 
 Trace the nerve cord posteriorly along the floor of the thorax, noting the enlarge- 
 ments or ganglia. Behind the sub-esophageal ganglion there are three ganglia; 
 then the nerve cord forks to allow the sternal artery to pass through; behind the 
 sternal artery are two more thoracic ganglia. Since in a segmented animal 
 
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 there is a ganglion (really a pair) to each segment, how many ganglia should 
 there be in the cephalothorax of the lobster? Since the brain supplies the first 
 two pairs of appendages, how many appendages must be supplied by the sub- 
 esophageal ganglion, and of how many fused ganglia does it, therefore, consist? 
 
 Trace the nerve cord back into the abdomen. Is there a ganglion for each 
 segment ? Does the telson have a ganglion? Note the branches of the abdominal 
 nerve cord. 
 
 Observe the branches of the sternal artery under the ventral nerve cord. It 
 passes between the two halves of the nerve cord, between the fourth and fifth 
 thoracic ganglia, and promptly divides into an anterior horizontal branch, the 
 ventral thoracic artery, and a posterior branch, the ventral abdominal artery. 
 These correspond to the ventral vessel of the earthworm. 
 
 Put in the nerve cord and its ganglia accurately, and the branches of the 
 sternal artery on your drawing. The drawing is now complete. 
 
 The nervous system of the lobster is very much like that of the earthworm, 
 except that as in the case of the other systems of the lobster it shows a partial 
 loss of the segmental arrangement through fusion. The nervous system of 
 both earthworm and lobster is based upon the same plan as that of Planaria, 
 consisting fundamentally of two ventral ganglionated cords arising from a dorsal 
 brain. This type of nervous system is common to all the invertebrates (except 
 those having radial symmetry) and is called the ladder type. The ventral cords, 
 originally separated rather widely, come together in the segmented animals to 
 produce an (apparently) single cord. 
 
 3. General considerations on the lobster. The chief principle which we 
 wish to bring out through the study of the anatomy of the lobster has already 
 been emphasized throughout the laboratory instructions. It is that the lobster, 
 although a segmented animal like the annelids, exhibits a marked tendency to 
 an obliteration of the segmentation, through fusion and loss of segments and of 
 segmented structures. This tendency is still further in evidence in the verte- 
 brates where dissection alone reveals that the frog is segmented, and then in 
 only a few systems. What systems of the lobster are segmented? Which is 
 the most completely segmented? In what part of the body is the segmentation 
 most complete? Where it is most obscure? Compare with the frog and deter- 
 mine wh ner the systems and the part of the body which exhibit the greatest 
 degree o segmentation are the same in the two animals. Is it the same system 
 in the two which retains the most primitive segmentation? What is the signifi- 
 cance of this fact? Does the lobster have all the systems which are present 
 in the frog? What one does it possess which the earthworm lacked? Why is 
 this system the last to appear in the animal series? Are the systems which the 
 earthworm and the lobster have in common better developed and more specialized 
 in the latter? Which one differs the least from that of the earthworm? Do the 
 systems of the lobster compare favorably with those of the frog as to specializa- 
 
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 tion for particular functions? What system of the lobster has made the least 
 progress? Do both the lobster and the frog seemed to have attained a fairly 
 high degree of adjustment (adaptation) to the conditions under which each 
 lives? 
 
 B. THE ANATOMY OF THE GRASSHOPPER 
 
 The grasshopper is selected as a representative of the great group of insects 
 because it is relatively large, easily obtained, and a rather generalized form. The 
 following description is based upon the large Florida grasshoppers. 
 
 i. External anatomy. Obtain a preserved specimen. Compare with the 
 earthworm and especially with the lobster. Is the animal bilaterally sym- 
 metrical? Is it segmented throughout? In what part of the body is the segmen- 
 tation most apparent? least apparent? Does it have jointed appendages like 
 the lobster? Do they occur on every segment? What part of the body lacks 
 them? Is this in accordance with the principle of specialization of anterior 
 regions, which we observed in the other animals studied? Does the animal have 
 a definite color pattern ? 
 
 The body is covered by a chitinous exoskeleton, similar to that of the earth- 
 worm and the lobster. It is secreted by the ectoderm, or epidermis, which lies 
 beneath it. As in the lobster it consists of hard regions, or sclerites, joined 
 together by thin membranes, the arthropodial membranes, at lines known as 
 sutures. 
 
 The body is divided into head, thorax, and abdomen. Are these regions 
 more distinctly separated than in the lobster? Each part consists of a definite 
 number of segments. Each segment as in the lobster is typically composed of a 
 dorsal sclerite, the tergum (commonly called notum in insects), a lateral sclerite, 
 the pleuron, and a ventral sclerite, the sternum. 
 
 a) The head and its appendages: Is the head readily movable upon the body? 
 The head shows no segmentation. The larger part of it is inclosed in one hard 
 sclerite, the epicranium, in which may be distinguished a top (vertex), sides 
 (genae), and a front (frons). Looking at the head from in front, the lowei 
 limit of the frons is marked by a distinct transverse suture. Below this suture 
 is a rectangular sclerite, the clypeus, and below this and attached to it another 
 sclerite, the bilobed upper lip or labrum. Observe that the labrum movable; 
 it is not, however, an appendage. 
 
 The head bears eyes, antennae, and three pairs of mouth parts, f here is a 
 pair of large compound eyes situated in the upper parts of the genae. Examine 
 them with the hand lens and note the minute hexagonal areas into which the 
 surface is divided. Each of these is the outer end of an ommatidium, and the 
 structure of th'j compound eye is the same as in the lobster. The grasshopper 
 also has three simple eyes, or ocelli, one anterior to the dorsal portion of each 
 compound eye on the ridge which separates frons and gena, and the third in 
 
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 the depression between the two ridges in the median line of the frons. For the 
 structure of the ocelli see Hegner (p. 245). Draw a front view of the head. 
 
 The antennae are the first pair of head appendages. They are jointed fila- 
 mentous structures, springing from depressions in the upper part of the frons. 
 The antennae are very important olfactory and tactile appendages. Remove 
 an antenna and examine with the low power, noting the sensory hairs upon it. 
 
 With the forceps, remove the clypeus and labrum in one piece, and examine 
 the under surface. This forms the roof of the mouth and bears a central club- 
 shaped elevation, the epipharynx, probably of sensory function. 
 
 The removal of the labrum exposes the three pairs of mouth parts. The first 
 of these, constituting the second pair of head appendages, is the mandibles, very 
 hard brown organs with toothed inner edges. Remove these and draw one 
 under a hand lens. The next pair of mouth parts, the third pair of head append- 
 ages, are the maxillae (first maxillae). They are lateral and each has a con- 
 spicuous process, the palp. Remove a maxilla complete and study it with the 
 hand lens. It consists of a basal portion, composed of two segments, a lower 
 car do and an upper stipes, from which springs three processes. The inner one 
 is a curved, toothed blade, the lacinia; the middle one an oval plate, the galea, 
 composed of two joints; and the outer, a slender jointed process, the maxillary 
 palp, supported by a small basal joint, the palpifer. Draw the maxilla. It is 
 probable that the palp is the endopod, and the remainder of the appendage the 
 protopod, exopod being absent. 
 
 The last pair of mouth parts, the fourth pair of head appendages, is the labium, 
 or lower lip, lying below the mouth in the median line. It is composed of two 
 maxillae (the second maxillae) partially fused in the median line. Attached 
 to the labium and projecting inward from it to form the floor of the mouth cavity 
 is an elevation, the hypopharynx, which serves as an organ of taste. Remove 
 the labium completely and identify the following parts with the hand lens: the 
 basal crescentic segment, the submentum; the next single piece, the mentum; 
 the paired labial palps, springing from the sides of the mentum through a small 
 joint, the palpifer; and the paired flat median plates, the ligulae. Draw the 
 labium. 
 
 Since the head bears four pairs of appendages it must consist of at least four 
 segments. Investigation of insect embryos has shown that there is another 
 segment in front of the one bearing the antennae, and still another between the 
 antennary and mandibular segments. There are thus six segments in the insect 
 head. The antennae of the insects correspond to the antennules of the lobster; 
 while the segment and the appendages which correspond to the antennae of the 
 lobster are lost in the adult insect. 
 
 b) The thorax and its appendages: The thorax is composed of three stout 
 segments, called the prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax, respectively, begin- 
 ning at the anterior end. The tergum, or no turn, called the pronotum, of the 
 
PHYLUM ARTHROPOD A 119 
 
 prothorax is greatly enlarged and extends back like a shield over the other two 
 segments of the thorax. It is also seen to be composed of four distinct sclerites, 
 one behind the other. The sternum of the prothorax has a sharp posteriorly 
 directed spine; the pleuron is rudimentary. The prothorax bears the first pair 
 of legs. Is the prothorax independently movable? 
 
 Cut away the backward extension of the pronotum. In the middle of the 
 side, in the membrane between the prothorax and mesothorax, find an oval 
 opening. This is a spiracle, or stigma, one of the openings into the respiratory 
 system. In the mesothorax, identify the dorsal tergum, or notum, the lateral 
 pleuron, the ventral broad sternum. Both tergum and pleuron are composed 
 of more than one sclerite. The mesothorax bears dorsal outgrowths, the first 
 pair of wings, and a ventral pair of appendages, the second pair of legs. Cut 
 off the wings. 
 
 The metathorax is similar in form and parts to the mesothorax and bears the 
 second pair of wings and third pair of legs. Cut off the wings. Locate another 
 spiracle between the ventral portions of the pleura of the mesothorax and 
 metathorax. 
 
 Examine the wings. Compare them as to form, size, color, thickness. What 
 do you consider to be the functions of each pair? The wings arise as saclike 
 outgrowths of the body wall. During development the two walls of the sac 
 become pressed together, forming a thin membrane. The veins or nerves of the 
 wings are respiratory tubes, filled with air, each surrounded by a tubular blood 
 sinus. After the insect attains its adult size, blood ceases to flow in the wings, 
 and they become dry, hard, and lifeless. Examine a piece of the second pair of 
 wings under the microscope, and note the air tube, or tracheal tube, and the blood 
 sinus around it in each of the veins. 
 
 Remove a leg from the body noting the depression in the body where it fits, 
 the arthropodial membrane which attaches it to the body, and the muscles at 
 its base. It is composed of five segments. The rounded segment which adjoins 
 the body is the coxa. It is succeeded by a quite small joint, the trochanter. The 
 next segment is the long powerful femur. Beyond this comes the more slender, 
 spiny tibia. The terminal part of the leg is the tarsus, consisting of three joints, 
 and with five ventral pads, the pulvilli, and a terminal pair of hooks. Compare 
 the three legs of the grasshopper with each other. Do all have the same parts? 
 Can you associate differences in relative proportions of parts with differences in 
 function? Are the legs well "adapted" for their functions? What are the uses 
 of the pulvilli and terminal hooks? 
 
 c) The abdomen and its appendages: Each abdominal segment consists of a 
 tergum, a U-shaped piece forming the dorsal and lateral walls, and a sternum, 
 the convex ventral plate. The pleuron is practically lacking but is represented 
 by the membranous fold where tergum and sternum articulate. Just above this 
 line of junction, on the lower border of the tergum will be found a spiracle, or 
 
120 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 stigma. How many pairs of stigmata are there on the abdomen? The tergum 
 and sternum of the first abdominal segment are separated from each other by 
 the depression for the insertion of the third legs. The sternum is fused to the 
 sternum of the metathorax, a crescentic suture, however, marking the boundaries 
 between them. The tergum bears upon its sides a circular opening with a 
 chitinous run across which is stretched a thin membrane. This is the organ 
 of hearing, or chordotonal organ, commonly called an "ear." On the anterior 
 border of the ear is the first abdominal spiracle. 
 
 The next seven abdominal segments are all alike and present no new features. 
 The remainder of the abdomen is different in form and structure in the two sexes. 
 In both sexes, the ninth and tenth terga are narrow and more or less fused. From 
 the tenth tergum a broad triangular plate, the suranal plate, extends posteriorly, 
 forming the roof of the anal opening. Whether the suranal plate is a part of the 
 tenth tergum or represents an eleventh tergum is undecided. From the sides 
 of the tenth tergum a pair of small pointed processes projects posteriorly. These 
 are called the cerci or cercopods, and are generally regarded as the appendages 
 of the tenth segment. Under each cercus is a larger triangular plate, the podical 
 plate, supposed by many authors to represent part of an eleventh segment. The 
 anal opening is between the two podical plates. 
 
 In the male there is a broad ninth sternum, followed by a triangular plate 
 curving dorsally, called the subgenital plate, probably representing the tenth 
 sternum. The subgenital plate terminates dorsally in two short spines. 
 Between the subgenital plate and the podical plates is the male genital opening, 
 and the male genital apparatus is concealed under the subgenital plate, which 
 forms a kind of hood over it. Grasp the subgenital plate and pull it backward, 
 revealing the male apparatus ending in a hard point, the penis. 
 
 In the female, the abdomen ends ventrally with the eighth sternum, from 
 which a pointed projection, the egg guide, extends posteriorly. Behind the 
 eighth sternum, terminating the body, are two pairs of hard pointed styles, which 
 together constitute the ovipositor, or egg-depositing apparatus. The female 
 genital opening lies at the base of the egg guide, and will be seen later. There 
 is no doubt that the styles of the ovipositor are true abdominal appendages, 
 homologous with the legs and mouth parts. The grasshopper lays its eggs in 
 the ground. Does this fact suggest to you the function of the styles? 
 
 2. The internal anatomy. The dissection of preserved specimens is rather 
 unsatisfactory. For this reason the student may have some difficulty in locating 
 all of the parts described and should not waste too much time in searching for 
 them. 
 
 Cut out the dorsal body wall in one strip beginning in front of the suranal 
 plate and extending forward to the compound eyes. Remove and preserve 
 the strip without injuring it. A large space containing the viscera is revealed. 
 As in the case of the lobster, this space is not a coelome but is an enormous blood 
 
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 sinus; this is evidenced by the complete lack of mesenteries. The coelome is 
 in fact practically entirely wanting in insects. A yellowish material, the fat 
 body, representing stored food, will be found attached to the viscera and body 
 wall. Note also the slender bandlike muscles originating on the body wall and 
 attached to the movable appendages. 
 
 Place the specimen in a wax-bottomed dissecting pan, pin it down by pins 
 through the wall, and fill the pan with water. 
 
 a) The respiratory system: There is perhaps no other system to be found in 
 the animal kingdom which so excites the admiration of the zoologist as the respira- 
 tory system of the insects. Unfortunately it is impossible to study it satis- 
 factorily in preserved material. It consists of a series of tubes, symmetrically 
 and segmentally arranged, called the tracheal tubes, or tracheae. These open 
 to the exterior through the spiracles, or stigmata, which have already been noted 
 on the surface of the body. To see the tracheal tubes, push the viscera of the 
 grasshopper gently to one side and look on the inside of the body wall opposite 
 the points where the spiracles are situated. A white tube will be seen extending 
 inward from each spiracle. With a little practice one will soon be able to identify 
 similar tubes throughout the body. Note also particularly in the thorax the 
 large white air sacs, which are connected with the tracheae and serve to increase 
 the capacity of the tracheal system. The tracheal system of the grasshopper 
 consists of three pairs of longitudinal trunks, connected by segmental branches, 
 giving off branches to all parts of the body and provided in certain places with 
 air sacs. Recall the tracheal system seen in the fly larvae (Section II, F, 3), and 
 examine Hegner's Figs. 135 (p. 243) and 137 (p. 244). 
 
 Remove a piece of a tracheal tube, mount in a drop of water on a slide, and 
 examine with the microscope. Observe the spiral thread on the inside of the 
 tracheal tube. What is its function? Draw. 
 
 The tracheae are tubes produced by ingrowth of the ectoderm and lined 
 therefore by the same chitinous layer which covers the body, in which the spiral 
 threads arise by local thickenings. The tracheae arise therefore in a manner 
 opposite to that of gills, which are outgrowths of the body wall. Both serve the 
 same purpose, an increase of surface. But while gills contain blood which 
 obtains oxygen through their thin walls, the tracheal tubes are filled with air. 
 The finest ramifications of the tracheal tubes are in contact with single cells; 
 and further, the blood in the large blood sinuses is in contact with the walls of 
 the tracheae. Thus oxygen is brought directly in contact with all parts of the 
 body, even the smallest; and a respiratory system which is regarded as the most 
 efficient among animals results. The air in the tracheal system is changed 
 through respiratory movements of the body. 
 
 b) The circulatory system: Associated with the development of a remarkably 
 efficient respiratory system, there is a correspondingly poor differentiation of the 
 circulatory system. There is a long segmented heart situated in the median 
 
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 dorsal line of the abdomen. Look on the underside of the dorsal strip removed 
 from the animal for a long tubular structure with several dilatations. It is 
 often indistinguishable in specimens which have been preserved for a long time. 
 Fan-shaped muscles are attached on either side to each dilatation; they are called 
 the alary muscles and are supposed to help dilate the heart. The wall of the 
 heart is pierced with ostia, as in the lobster, through which it sucks in blood 
 from the great blood sinus which surrounds it. 
 
 There are no arteries or other blood vessels, but the blood flows out from the 
 anterior open end of the heart into the sinuses. 
 
 c) The reproductive system: This system will be considered first since it is 
 the first system noticeable on looking into the cavity of the abdomen. In the 
 male the testis forms a white mass in the posterior end of the animal dorsal to 
 the intestine. From each side of the ventral surface of this mass a male duct 
 or vas deferens arises and passes posteriorly and ventrally to the end of the 
 abdomen where it is joined by a mass of tubules, the accessory glands, located in 
 the seventh and eighth abdominal segments. The lateral walls of these segments 
 should be removed to see these tubules. The two vasa deferentia then unite in 
 the ventral median line within the eighth sternum to a single duct which passes 
 into a muscular mass surrounding the base of the copulatory organ, or penis. 
 Remove the ninth sternum and the subgenital plate and look for these parts. 
 Remove the muscles from the penis and note with a hand lens or microscope 
 the four hard chitinous styles which compose it. 
 
 In the female the two ovaries are situated in the posterior end of the abdomen, 
 one on each side of the digestive tract. Each consists of a number of parallel 
 ovarian tubes, more ( or less vertical in position, resting, so to speak, in a row upon 
 the oviduct, which arises from their ventral ends. In each ovarian tube is a row 
 of eggs, of which the largest ones, often plainly visible as oval brown bodies, are 
 placed nearest the beginning of the oviduct. The two oviducts pass posteriorly 
 and ventrally and unite in the median ventral line under the intestine to a com- 
 mon duct, the vagina. The vagina opens to the exterior by the female genital 
 opening located at the base of the egg guide. Grasp the egg guide with a forceps 
 and pull it forcibly out of its position between the ventral styles of the ovipositor. 
 At its base note a little cushion which folds over the genital opening and must 
 be pulled back to reveal the latter. Remove the eighth sternum and locate 
 within it the vagina, a broad tube passing to the genital opening. Lift out the 
 vagina and note just above it another tube, the copulatory sac, which receives 
 the sperm of the male in copulation. This opens to the exterior just dorsal to 
 the vagina. Attached to the copulatory sac is a slender duct leading from a 
 small body located just above the point where the two oviducts unite to form 
 the vagina. This body is the cement gland. In laying eggs the grasshopper digs 
 a hole in the ground with the ovipositor; the eggs are then passed out through 
 
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 the genital opening, receiving sperm from the copulatory sac and being stuck 
 together into packets by a fluid from the cement gland. The egg guide directs 
 the eggs in their passage to the exterior. 
 
 Draw from the side the parts of the reproductive system which you have 
 been able to find. 
 
 d) The digestive system: The larger part of the internal cavity is filled with 
 the digestive tract. Remove the reproductive system. Clean away the fat 
 body and cut off one lateral side of the abdomen and thorax and the same side 
 of the head. Identify the short esophagus extending inward from the mouth 
 and opening into a large crop which fills most of the cavity of the thorax. Behind 
 the crop is the elongated stomach, or ventriculus, partially concealed by six thin- 
 walled gastric caecae. Each gastric caecum is attached by its middle portion 
 to the wall of the stomach so that one of its pointed ends projects forward and 
 the other backward from the point of attachment. The anterior part of the 
 stomach, covered by the caecae is distinguished as the proventriculus or gizzard, 
 but it is not well differentiated in the grasshopper. The posterior end of the 
 stomach is marked by the presence of a tangle of threads, the Matpighian 
 tubules. Beyond this region is the intestine, at first wide, then presenting a 
 short narrow portion, the colon, then widening into a rectum, which extends to 
 the anus. The rectum frequently contains a cylindrical pellet of faeces. Its 
 surface is marked off by longitudinal muscle bands into six expanded areas, 
 known as the rectal glands. The position of the anus under the suranal plate 
 has already been noted. Look in the sides of the thorax among the muscles and 
 fat body for the salivary glands, a cluster of small round glands attached to a 
 duct. The ducts open into the mouth. 
 
 Draw an outline of the animal from the side and put in the parts of the 
 digestive tract. Other systems which the student has seen well enough may also 
 be entered upon the drawing. 
 
 e) The excretory system: The threadlike Malpighian tubules arising at the 
 junction of the stomach and intestine are the excretory organs. They are out- 
 growths of the digestive tract and are therefore entirely distinct morphologically 
 from the excretory organs of the other animals we have studied, that is, the 
 nephridia. The insects have lost the nephridia. 
 
 /) The nervous system: Cut through the esophagus, leaving it in place, and 
 remove the digestive tract. Look in the median ventral line of the abdomen for 
 the ventral nerve cord. How many ganglia are present in the abdomen? Trace 
 the nerve cord forward into the thorax. Note here, as in the lobster, a so-called 
 endoskeleton, really an ingrowth of the exoskeleton, extending like beams across 
 the floor of the thorax. Remove these and muscles, etc., so as to expose the 
 thoracic nerve cord. Find the three large thoracic ganglia, one in each segment 
 of the thorax. Anterior to these is the sub-esophageal ganglion. From this the 
 
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 circum-esophageal commissures pass forward around the esophagus, and unite at 
 the brain, or supra-esophageal ganglion, located between the eyes. Does the 
 nervous system of the grasshopper resemble that of the lobster? 
 
 Draw in the nervous system on your lateral view of the grasshopper. 
 
 g) The sense organs: The chief sense organs have already been noted. The 
 following additional statements may be made. Read also Hegner (pp. 245-48). 
 Insects are provided with a great variety and abundance of sense organs. Much 
 work still remains to be done upon the structure and functions of these. Organs 
 of touch in the form of tactile hairs are present all over the body, but particularly 
 on the antennae, mouth parts, and cerci. Organs of taste are present as sensory 
 pits on the epipharynx, hypopharynx, and probably on the maxillary and labial 
 palps. The sense of smell is incredibly keen in insects, and is located mainly 
 upon the antennae in the form of sensory pits; it is probable that olfactory- 
 organs are present elsewhere also. Hearing is localized in the grasshopper in 
 the chordo tonal organ; in other insects hearing may be served by auditory 
 hairs and auditory pits. The compound and simple eyes are the organs of vision ; 
 there is no doubt that insects see objects, and they may even perceive colors, 
 but they are especially quick in detecting movements of external objects, a 
 capacity undoubtedly due to the compound structure of the eyes. 
 
 3. General considerations on the grasshopper. What are the chief differ- 
 ences between the external anatomy of the grasshopper and the lobster? What 
 internal systems of the two animals show the most differences? What systems 
 of the grasshopper are - segmented? What particularly effective and highly 
 specialized systems does the grasshopper possess? From your study of the 
 anatomy of the grasshopper, can you give reasons why insects are the most 
 successful and dominant animals on the earth, excepting man? 
 
 C. GENERAL SURVEY OF ARTHROPODS 
 
 Examine the specimens and compare them with each other and the lobster 
 and grasshopper as to degree of segmentation, specialization and number of 
 appendages, general form, symmetry, and divisions of the body. The common 
 groups of arthropods are: 
 
 i. Crustacea, forms with two pairs of antennae, many pairs of appendages, 
 hard crustaceous exoskeleton, and gills as respiratory organs. Examine the 
 following representatives (not arranged by classification). 
 
 a) Entomostraca, small to microscopic Crustacea, common in fresh water, 
 often inclosed in a bivalve carapace. Preserved forms are of little value; living 
 forms if available will be demonstrated. 
 
 b) Barnacles, sessile forms, inclosed in calcareous plates. Marine forms, 
 covering the rocks along the seashores. 
 
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 c) Shrimps, marine animals similar to crayfishes, but with a more slender, 
 delicate build. 
 
 d) Crabs, marine animals like the lobster, but with a much broadened 
 cephalothorax, and reduced abdomen folded under the cephalothorax. 
 
 e) Amphipods, small fresh- water animals, something like miniature cray- 
 fishes, but strongly compressed from side to side. 
 
 /) Sow bugs or pill bugs, small forms, greatly compressed dorsoventrally, 
 common in damp places, greenhouses, etc., also in water; curling into balls 
 when disturbed. 
 
 2. Arachnids, forms without antennae, and four pairs of walking legs. 
 
 a) Spiders, require no description. 
 
 b) Scorpions, with segmented abdomens narrowing to a long tail, bearing a 
 terminal sting. 
 
 c) Daddy longlegs, or harvestmen, with small bodies, indistinctly segmented, 
 and very long slender legs. 
 
 d) Mites, small, flattened forms, having lost all traces of segmentation, 
 generally external parasites. 
 
 3. The king crab, or horseshoe crab, survivor of an ancient, mostly extinct, 
 group, with a large rounded cephalothorax; abdomen terminated by a long 
 sharp spine. 
 
 4. Insects, with one pair of antennae, three pairs of walking legs, breathing 
 by means of tracheae. 
 
 5. Millipedes and centipedes, elongated forms consisting of many segments. 
 Each segment has one pair of legs in the centipedes, and two pairs in the milli- 
 pedes. 
 
XIV FINAL EXERCISES ON COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 
 
 A. COMPARISON OF CROSS-SECTIONS 
 
 Make diagrammatic cross-sections through Hydra, Planaria, earthworm, 
 and frog, putting in all the layers of the body. Color ectoderm blue, mesoderm 
 red, entoderm yellow, peritoneum and mesenteries green. Indicate epithelial 
 layers by crosslines at right angles to the surface; connective tissue by solid 
 shading, muscles by diagonal lines, skeleton by dots. After finishing these 
 diagrams, study them and be sure that you understand thoroughly what layers 
 correspond in the four animals, and in what important ways the sections differ 
 from each other. 
 
 B. COMPARISON OF FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS 
 
 Make a table as follows. Rule off a page with vertical and horizontal lines 
 so as to make a number of vertical and horizontal columns. At the left, in the 
 spaces between the horizontal lines, write the names of all the animals studied 
 in this course, beginning with the amoeba and ending with the frog, in their 
 proper phylogenetic order. At the tops of the vertical columns, going from 
 left to right, write the names of the systems in the following order: digestive 
 system, muscular system, nervous system, reproductive system, excretory 
 system, circulatory system, respiratory system, skeletal system. In the ap- 
 propriate spaces opposite the names of the animals, write in very briefly 
 whether the animal has such a system and if so what it consists of. The 
 table when finished will illustrate the gradual increase in numbers of systems 
 and complexity of each system through the animal kingdom. Note that a 
 system consists of parts set aside for the performance of specific functions. 
 Thus the amoeba respires but it has no respiratory system, that is, no structure? 
 for that purpose. 
 
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XV. EXERCISE ON CLASSIFICATION 
 
 The science of classification or taxonomy is that branch of biology which 
 attempts to discover the natural relationships of organisms, and to put all known 
 forms of life in their proper places in a genealogical tree. Classification is based 
 entirely upon anatomy, both adult and embryonic, and is not in the least con- 
 cerned with function. 
 
 Classification starts with the conception of the Species, which may be defined 
 for our purpose as a group of organisms essentially alike in all the details of their 
 structure. Thus all of the frogs given out in the laboratory are so nearly alike 
 that the laboratory instructions even down to the microscopic structure apply 
 to all individuals. Such frogs therefore constitute a species and are given a 
 name, called the specific name, which is in this case pipiens. There are many 
 other kinds of frogs which are quite similar to this one but differ in small details ; 
 for instance, the bullfrog is larger, has a different color pattern, and lacks the 
 dermal plicae; it therefore receives another specific name, catesbiana (see Holmes, 
 pp. 18-21). There are in fact about one hundred and forty different kinds of 
 frogs, each of which has a specific name. In order to express the fact that all of 
 these frogs are very similar to each other they are placed together into one group, 
 called a genus. This genus to which the frogs belong is called Rana, from the 
 Latin word meaning "frog," and this name is spoken of as the generic name. The 
 full name of our common frog is therefore Rana pipiens. This system of naming 
 animals with two names is called the binomial system of nomenclature and was 
 devised by Linnaeus, one of the early biologists who became interested in classi- 
 fication (see Hegner, p. 270). 
 
 Among the members of a species there are often minor variations, which are 
 distinguished as varieties, when sufficiently important and common. Varieties 
 occur most frequently in domestic animals. See, for instance, Hegner's Fig. 160 
 (p. 294) for a photograph of the varieties of the domestic pigeon. 
 
 All of those genera which are naturally related to each other as shown by 
 their structure are united together into a family. Thus the lions, tigers, leopards, 
 lynxes, and other catlike animals form a natural family, the Felidae, or cats, 
 having sharp fangs, and retractile claws. Similarly the dogs, wolves, foxes, etc., 
 form another natural family, the Canidae, in which the claws are not retractile; 
 the bears are another family; so also the hyenas, and the otters, weasels, and 
 martens. All of these families, together with many others which have not been 
 mentioned, have certain characters in common, such as that they all are carnivo- 
 rous and have strong fangs and sharp cutting teeth, that they have claws, and 
 
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 walk upon their tiptoes, so to speak, and that their skeletons are very similar. 
 In recognition of these facts, which demonstrate that they are related to each 
 other, they are united into a larger group, called an order, in this case, the order 
 Carnivora. If we consider other animals familiar to us we find that they too 
 fall into natural orders; thus the cattle, sheep, deer, horses, resemble each other 
 in that they walk on their toenails, which are broadened into hoofs, their legs 
 are much modified for running, and their teeth are broad and ridged for grinding 
 up vegetable food. They constitute another order, the Ungulata. Similarly 
 the rabbits, squirrels, mice, rats, beavers constitute the order Rodentia, dis- 
 tinguished by sharp, chisel-like front teeth. 
 
 If we further consider these and other orders of familiar quadruped animals 
 we find that they have certain large characters in common, such as that they are 
 all clothed with fur, that their young are born alive and nourished with milk, 
 and that their skeletons are quite similar. These facts point to undoubted 
 relationships between them, so that they are united into a still larger taxonomic 
 group, the class, in this case the class Mammalia, or the mammals. 
 
 The birds are another natural class, distinguished by their covering of feathers, 
 modification of the fore limbs into wings, and egg-laying habit. Frogs, toads, and 
 salamanders are another, with slimy smooth skins; snakes, lizards, alligators 
 and similar animals form another class, with dry scaly skins; fishes constitute 
 a class distinguished by the presence of gills and fins. 
 
 All of these apparently diverse classes of animals have further certain common 
 characters, such as the presence of an internal cartilaginous or bony skeleton, 
 consisting of skull, vertebral column, limb girdles, etc., two pairs of appendages, 
 a ventral chambered heart, a dorsal nervous system, etc. They therefore 
 together constitute one of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, a phylum. 
 
 The taxonomic divisions are therefore variety, species, genus, family, order, 
 class, phylum. There are usually other subdivisions, also, as subphylum, sub- 
 class, suborder, superfamily, subfamily, etc. Naturally, the details of classi- 
 fication are not yet agreed upon because we know as yet little about the natural 
 relationships of animals and because it is difficult to decide whether certain 
 characters are as important as others, as, for example, whether certain differ- 
 ences between two animals will place them in different genera only, or whether 
 they are great enough to separate them into two different families. For this 
 reason the student need not be surprised to find that the various textbooks do 
 not agree on the details of classification, although all recognize the same large 
 groups. 
 
 There follows a key to the phyla and classes of the animal kingdom. Peculiar, 
 rare, and aberrant forms are not provided for in the key, but an attempt has 
 been made to include all animals commonly met with. With the aid of the key, 
 classify ten different animals provided by the assistant. In this key each state- 
 ment of characters bears a number followed in parentheses by one or more 
 
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 numbers which refer to the alternative statement. If, therefore, upon reading 
 the first statement the student decides that this does not fit the animal in ques- 
 tion, he turns at once to the number or numbers in parentheses and continues 
 to do this until he finds a statement that does fit. In this case he proceeds to 
 the number given at the end of the statement. This method of making a key 
 is taken from Ward and Whipple's Fresh-Water Biology. The key is in part 
 derived from one devised by Dr. V. E. Shelford, of the University of Illinois. 
 Only the simplest possible characters have been chosen as means of identifica- 
 tion, even though this often involves repetition and increased length of the key. 
 
 Key to the Phyla of Animals 
 
 1 (2). Animals consisting of a single cell, or of a colony of like cells, or masses 
 of multinucleate protoplasm; mostly microscopic. Phylum Protozoa 
 
 2 (i). Animals consisting of many cells, of several or many different kinds, 
 arranged in definite layers. 3 
 
 3 (4, n). Without definite symmetry. Forming sessile motionless crusts 
 or masses, often branching; body porous, rough, and bristly, pierced by numer- 
 ous holes, of which one or more are large and conspicuous. Phylum Porifera 
 
 4 (3, n). With definite radial symmetry. 5 
 
 5 (10). Relatively simple animals, without anus, coelome, or definite 
 organs. 6 
 
 6 (7). Sessile, vase-shaped, or cylindrical forms, porous, rough, bristly, with 
 one large terminal, non-closable opening; without tentacles. A few members 
 of the Phylum Porifera 
 
 7 (6). Soft, often gelatinous animals, not porous or bristly; apical opening 
 a closable mouth; nearly always with tentacles. Parts of the body arranged 
 in fours or sixes or indefinite. 8 
 
 8 (9). With eight radial rows of ciliated swimming plates; tentacles, if 
 present, without nematocysts. Phylum Ctenophora 
 
 9 (8). Without such rows of ciliated plates; with tentacles armed with 
 nematocysts; often sessile and colonial, some free-swimming. 
 
 Phylum Coelenterata 
 
 10 (5). More complex animals, with anus, coelome, and definite organs; 
 parts of the body almost always in fives, sometimes indefinite; hard, spiny, or 
 leathery animals; tentacles, if present, branched, and never with nematocysts. 
 
 Phylum Echinodermata 
 
 11 (4, 3). With definite bilateral symmetry, at least in part of the body; 
 sometimes spirally coiled in part; sometimes posterior end bent anteriorly 
 toward mouth. 12 
 
 12 (34, 37). Without an internal cartilaginous or bony skeleton in the form 
 of skull or vertebral column, wall of the pharynx not pierced with gill slits. 13 
 
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 13 (14). With one or more girdles or crowns of cilia borne upon the discoidai, 
 platelike, or lobed anterior end; with internal movable chitinous jaws; small or 
 microscopic aquatic forms. Phylum Trochelminthes 
 
 14 (13). Without such crowns of cilia. 15 
 
 15 (27). Body not divided into segments, nor with segmen tally arranged 
 bristles, nor with segmented appendages. 16 
 
 1 6 (17, 20). Wormlike animals without an anus; flattened dorsoventrally, 
 often leaflike or ribbon-like; free-living in water, or parasitic. 
 
 Phylum Platyhelminthes 
 
 17(16,20). Wormlike animals with an anus; without an exoskeleton; heads 
 poorly developed and not distinct from body. 18 
 
 1 8 (19). With a long proboscis inclosed in a sheath lying dorsal to the 
 alimentary canal, capable of protrusion from the anterior end; slender, often 
 very long, flattened to cylindrical worms, mostly marine. Phylum Nemertinea 
 
 19 (18). Without such a proboscis; slender cylindrical worms, pointed at 
 each end, covered by a smooth thick cuticle; water, damp earth, or parasitic. 
 
 Phylum Nemathelmmthes 
 
 20 (17, 16). Generally not wormlike, with an anus; often provided with 
 an exoskeleton, consisting of calcareous shells of one or more pieces, or cal- 
 careous or horny cases or tubes, or a gelatinous secretion; if naked, with much 
 more definite heads than under 16 and 17. 21 
 
 21 (22). Colonial animals, sessile, fastened in cases, tubes, or on the surface 
 of gelatinous masses; provided with a circular or horseshoeshaped crown of 
 ciliated tentacles; small, usually microscopic. 
 
 Phylum Molluscoidea; Class Bryozoa (Polyzoa) 
 
 22 (21). Not colonial, nor microscopic, exoskeleton in the form of a cal- 
 careous shell of one or more pieces, or absent. 23 
 
 23 (24). With definite heads, sometimes bearing tentacles armed with 
 suckers; shell, if present, not bivalve. Phylum Mollusca 
 
 24 (23.) Without definite heads; shell bivalve. 25 
 
 25 (26). Halves of the shell dorsal and ventral in position; nearly always 
 fastened by a stalk protruding between the valves at their hinge. 
 
 Phylum Molluscoidea; Class Brachiopoda 
 
 26 (25). Halves of the shell lateral; never with such a stalk, although 
 sometimes sessile. Phylum Mollusca 
 
 27 (15). Body divided into segments, or with segmen tally arranged bristles 
 or internal organs, or with segmented appendages. 28 
 
 28 (33). Without jointed appendages; wormlike. 29 
 
 29 (30). Remarkably elongated, flat, tapelike worms, without mouth, anus, 
 or digestive tract; head and anterior segments very small; segments very 
 numerous, increasing greatly in size posteriorly, where they drop off when ripe; 
 always internal parasites. Phylum Platyhelminthes 
 
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 30 (20). Not tapelike; with anus, mouth, and digestive tract; segments 
 decreasing in size posteriorly or of the same size throughout. 31 
 
 31 (32). Segments numerous, usually decreasing in size posteriorly; without 
 tracheae, tracheal gills, or spiracles ; never with definitely differentiated chitinized 
 heads; often with segmental bristles, but these never in large tufts at one end 
 of the body. Phylum Annelida 
 
 32 (31). Segments few in number, not exceeding eleven or twelve; not 
 markedly decreasing in size posteriorly; with tracheal tubes, tracheal gills, or 
 spiracles; often separate hard chitinized heads; and may have bristles in tufts 
 at one end. Phylum Arthropoda (insect larvae) 
 
 33 (28). With jointed appendages, at least on the anterior segments of the 
 body. Phylum Arthropoda 
 
 34 (12, 37). Wall of the pharynx pierced with gill slits; without an internal 
 cartilaginous or bony skeleton. 35 
 
 35 (36). Small, fishlike forms; sides of the body marked with zigzag muscle 
 segments; mouth without jaws, in the center of a rounded hood. 
 
 Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Cephalochorda 
 
 36 (35). Inclosed in a saclike gelatinous or tough coat, which has two 
 openings to the outside, for the ingress and egress of water; sessile, solitary or 
 colonial (the latter quite small), or free-floating, marine. 
 
 Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Tunicata 
 37. With a cartilaginous or bony skull and vertebral column. 
 
 Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Vertebrata 
 
 Key to the Classes of the Principal Phyla 
 I. Phylum Protozoa 
 
 1 (9). With temporary or permanent extensions of the surface of the body, 
 mostly for locomotor purposes. 2 
 
 2 (3, 6). Extensions in the form of changing pseudopodia, blunt to long 
 and threadlike. Class Sarcodina (Rhizopoda) 
 
 3 (2, 6). Extensions as raylike, non-motile (or nearly so) projections. 4 
 
 4 (5). Rays with a terminal knob. Class Suctoria 
 
 5 (4). Rays pointed, without a knob. Class Sarcodina 
 
 6 (2, 3). Extensions in the form of long or short, hairlike, very active pro- 
 cesses. 7 
 
 7 (8). Hairlike processes short and numerous (cilia). Class Ciliata 
 
 8 (7). Hairlike processes long and few (one or two to several). 
 
 Class Flagellata 
 
 9 (i). Without locomotor or other processes of the body in the adult state; 
 parasitic. Class Sporozoa 
 
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 n. Phylum Coelenterata 
 
 1 (4, 7). Animals of the hydroid type; sessile. 2 
 
 2 (3). Nearly always colonial; body of the hydroids on the end of slender 
 stalks; without an esophagus, and gastrovascular cavity, a simple sac, not divided 
 by septa. Class Hydrozoa 
 
 3 (2). Solitary or colonial; cylindrical or columnar, not divided into body 
 and stalk; with an esophagus, and gastrovascular cavity divided into com- 
 partments by partitions. Class Anthozoa 
 
 4 (i, 7). Animals of the medusa type, solitary, free-swimming. 5 
 
 5 (6). With a velum and of simple structure. Class Hydrozoa 
 
 6 (5). Without a velum, and more complex in structure, usually with 
 highly branching gastrovascular canals. Class Scyphozoa 
 
 7 (i, 4). Complex floating colonies containing both hydroid and medusa 
 types of individuals. Class Hydrozoa; Order Siphonophora 
 
 ffl. Phylum Platyhelminthes 
 
 1 (4). With mouth and digestive tract; not especially elongated, nor 
 divided into segments. 2 
 
 2 (3). Free-living, ciliated forms, without suckers. Class Turbellaria 
 
 3 (2). Parasitic, not ciliated; with at least one sucker, often more, often 
 hooks in addition. Class Trematoda 
 
 4 (i). Without mouth or digestive tract; nearly always very long and 
 tapelike, and divided into segments (not true segments) ; parasites. 
 
 Class Cestoda 
 
 IV. Phylum Annelida 
 
 1 (4). Segmental bristles present; indefinite number of segments; no 
 suckers. Class Chaetopoda 2 
 
 2 (3). Bristles numerous, generally on lateral outgrowths, the parapodia. 
 
 Subclass Polychaeta 
 
 3 (2). Bristles few, set directly into the body wall; no parapodia. 
 
 Subclass Oligochaeta 
 
 4 (i). Segmental bristles absent; limited number of segments; with an 
 anal and an oral sucker. Class Hirudinea 
 
 V. Phylum Echinodermata 
 
 1 (8). With a well-developed skeleton of calcareous ossicles or plates; 
 usually spiny; radial; no tentacles. 2 
 
 2 (3). Mostly sessile, attached by a stalk springing from the aboral surface; 
 if free, moving on the aboral surface. Class Crinoidea 
 
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 3 (2). Not sessile, nor stalked; moving on the oral surface. 4 
 
 4 (7). Star-shaped, five to many rays. 5 
 
 5 (6). Rays slender, sharply marked off from the disk. 
 
 Class Ophiuroidea 
 
 6 (5). Rays broad, not sharply separated from the disk. Class Asteroidea 
 
 7 (4). Not star-shaped; spherical, oval, or flattened disks; very spiny. 
 
 Class Echinoidea 
 
 8 (i). Skeleton rudimentary; animals with leathery and tough body walls; 
 elongated, even wormlike, with a tendency to bilaterality; commonly with 
 branched tenacles around the mouth. Class Holothuroidea 
 
 VI. Phylum Mollusca 
 
 i (2). With arms provided with cuplike suckers; shell apparently absent, 
 or, if present, spiral and divided into chambers. Class Cephalopoda 
 
 2(1). Without such sucker-bearing arms; shell never divided into chambers, 
 sometimes absent. 3 
 
 3 (4, 5). Shell bivalve. Class Pelecypoda 
 
 4 (3> 5)' Shell of eight pieces. Class Amphineura 
 
 5 (3, 4). Shell univalve or absent. 6 
 
 6 (7). Shell shaped like an elephant's tusk. Class Scaphopoda 
 
 7 (6). Shell generally spirally coiled, sometimes cap-shaped or conical, 
 sometimes absent. Class Gasteropoda 
 
 VII. Phylum Arthropoda 
 
 1 (2, 5). With two pairs of antennae in front of the mouth; generally 
 covered with a hard exoskeleton; breathing by means of gills; usually with 
 numerous appendages; aquatic or in damp places. Class Crustacea 
 
 2 (i, 5). With one pair of antennae; breathing by means of tracheae. 3 
 
 3 (4). Elongated, wormlike, with one or two pairs of jointed walking legs 
 on each segment of the body. Class Myriopoda 
 
 4 (3). With only three pairs of jointed walking legs (larval forms of this 
 class are provided for in the key to phyla). Class Insecta 
 
 5 (i, 2). Without antennae; four pairs of walking legs (in some cases 
 appearing as six pairs through leglike condition of mouth parts). 
 
 Class Arachnida 
 
 VIII. Subphylum Vertebrata 
 
 1 (4). Fishlike animals, living in water and breathing by means of gills; 
 without lungs or limbs. 2 
 
 2 (3). Without jaws, paired fins. Class Cyclostomata 
 
 3 (2). With jaws and paired fins. Class Pisces 
 
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 4 (i). Not fishlike; always with lungs (sometimes gills in addition); paired 
 appendages in the form of limbs or absent. 5 
 
 5 (6). Skin naked and slimy; never marine. Class Amphibia 
 
 6 (5). Skin provided with an exoskeleton consisting of hairs, scales, or 
 feathers (if apparently absent, large marine forms). 7 
 
 7 (8> 9)^ Exoskeleton in the form of scales, never with hair or feathers. 
 
 Class Reptilia 
 
 8 (7, 9). Exoskeleton in the form of feathers and scales. Class Aves 
 
 9 (7, 8). Exoskeleton in the form of hairs (sometimes apparently absent, 
 sometimes scales present also); nearly always nourishing the young with milk. 
 
 ClaSS Mammalia 
 
XVI. EXERCISE ON ECOLOGY 
 
 Ecology is that part of biology which studies living organisms in their natural 
 environments. Its problems are: (i) to locate every species of plant and animal 
 in the place which it naturally inhabits; (2) to find out and measure all of the 
 factors which together make up its surroundings, as physical factors (light, 
 temperature, moisture), chemical (oxygen content, carbon dioxide content, salts 
 present), physiographic and metereological (climate, seasonal changes, composi- 
 tion of soil, etc.), and biological (other organisms present); (3) to discover 
 what structures the animal possesses which enable it to maintain itself success- 
 fully in its environment (e.g., if an animal living in a swift stream had not some 
 means of hanging to objects, it would be swept away) ; (4) to determine how its 
 behavior enables it to continue to live in the environment in which it is found and 
 how it responds to the various stimuli present in that environment, a field of 
 work called animal behavior; (5) to study how environments change through 
 physiographic or other processes, and how this effects the organisms inhabitating 
 those environments. All of these matters must be determined not only for the 
 adult but also for all stages of the life-cycle. The problems of ecology are there- 
 fore exceedingly complex and difficult ones. 
 
 The class should be conducted if possible on an excursion into the field, into 
 any characteristic habitat, as a pond, swift stream, woods, etc. Each student 
 should carry a number of Mason jars into the field and bring back to the labora- 
 tory living animals upon which experiments can be performed in the laboratory. 
 The animals are to be placed as soon as possible into conditions imitating the 
 natural environment. As this is easiest in the case of pond animals, the pond 
 environment will prove one of the most suitable for an exercise of this kind. 
 While in the field the student will note carefully the various possibilities for 
 animal habitats in each general environment, as in a pond, bottom of the pond, 
 on vegetation, free in the water, under floating objects, etc., and note which 
 animals live in these various places. 
 
 As a sample exercise in ecology the following experiments on the pond snail 
 are presented. The common pond snails are Limnaea, having a long spiral 
 shell; Planorbis, flat spiral shell; and Physa, short spiral shell, with the last 
 chamber much larger than any of the others. The instructor should furnish 
 references for reading in connection with this exercise. 
 
 i. Natural environment of the pond snail. Where were the animals found 
 in the field? What were they doing? What are they doing now in the laboratory 
 aquaria where they have been kept since collected? What are the factors of 
 
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 their environment? How does it change in the various seasons of the year? 
 During the day? Is the top water of a pond different from the bottom as to 
 light, temperature, content of oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc.? What chemical sub- 
 stances do you think are present in pond water? Do the snails occur where 
 there is vegetation? How does vegetation change the water chemically? How 
 would it affect the penetration of sunlight into the pond? What is found on the 
 bottom of the pond and what role does vegetation play in its production? 
 
 2. Structures of the pond snail which are related to the environment. How 
 does the animal move about? The broad flat surface on which it crawls is the 
 ventral surface of the body and is called the foot. Is the movement of the foot 
 a muscular one or not? Can you see muscular waves passing along it? Con- 
 sidering the method of locomotion of the pond snail where would they occur 
 in a pond? Can they swim free in the water? How would they reach the surface 
 of the water? Can the animal go up and down in the water, without climbing 
 on objects? If you see it doing so it is traveling on a mucus thread secreted by 
 the foot. Remove a pond snail and throw it forcibly back into the water. Does 
 it sink? Does it let out bubbles of air? The pond snails do in fact possess a 
 chamber filled with air. By changing the amount of air in this chamber, could 
 they rise and sink in the water at will? 
 
 The rounded projection in front of the foot is the head. It bears a pair of 
 tentacles at the bases of which is a pair of eyes. Touch the tentacles. What 
 do you think is their function? On a snail which is crawling along the sides of 
 the vessel so that you can see the underside, observe that a fold of the body, the 
 mantle, is fastened to the inside of the shell. In the center of the ventral side of 
 the head is the mouth opening. 
 
 Pick up a snail out of the water. How far can it withdraw into the shell? 
 What is the purpose of this reaction? What is therefore the advantage of the 
 shell? What disadvantages does its possession entail? What does a snail do 
 when it is violently disturbed? Is this reaction ample to protect it from enemies? 
 
 Observe the mud in the bottom of the jars where snails are kept, or else put 
 some snails in a jar of water with mud in the bottom. Note the trails left by 
 the snails as they crawl. Stir up a trail and observe that the particles of dirt 
 stick together. How does the snail accomplish this? Is this of advantage in 
 crawling over soft mud or slippery surfaces? 
 
 3. Food taking. As the animal crawls along on the side of the aquarium 
 observe a wedge-shaped object protruding from the mouth at regular intervals. 
 It is the radula. The radula is a horny ribbon covered with teeth, used by the 
 snail for feeding. It is worked by a complicated muscular apparatus back and 
 forth over the end of a hard radular cartilage, like a rope over a pulley, and thus 
 exerts a rasping action on the food, reducing it to minute bits which are then 
 sucked into the esophagus. What does a snail get by rasping the glass of the 
 aquarium? Do you see evidence that the snails have been feeding on the plants 
 
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 in the aquarium? What would they get besides plant tissue by scraping the 
 surface of vegetation? Scrape the surfaces of various aquatic plants and examine 
 the scrapings with a microscope. What do you see (-4)? Would you expect 
 to find snails in bodies of water where vegetation is scanty or is composed of 
 harsh, tough plants? This gives us a clue as to where to look for pond snails 
 and as to one of the factors which limit their distribution. Examine a slide of 
 the radula and note the teeth upon its surface. 
 
 4. Respiration. Watch the snails for some time and observe that they 
 eventually come to the surface and assume a characteristic attitude. (How 
 can a heavy animal like a snail keep on the surface?) Observe between the head 
 and the edge of the shell, which is covered by the mantle, a small conical pro- 
 jection. This is the respiratory or pulmonary sac. Observe that the tip of the 
 sac is thrust above the surface film, and is then opened to the air. The animal 
 remains in this attitude a little while taking air into the sac. It then closes the 
 sac and descends. The common pond snails therefore breathe air, but there are 
 some fresh-water snails which breathe by means of gills and do not have to come 
 to the surface. By changing the amount of air in the pulmonary sac, snails 
 can rise and sink in the water. 
 
 What stimulus do you suppose drives the snail to the surface for air? What 
 factors would determine how often it would need to come to the surface? Try 
 difference in rate of taking air between snails kept at ordinary temperatures and 
 those in ice water. How does the snail know in which direction to go for air? 
 To determine this, take a wide-mouthed bottle, put some snails in it, fill it com- 
 pletely with water, and cork tightly so that no air bubbles are included. Turn 
 it upside down and watch in which direction the snails go to seek air. Does this 
 answer the question? 
 
 How long will snails live without access to oxygen? Take three bottles of 
 equal size, place an equal number of snails in each and some vegetation for food. 
 Fill two bottles completely with water and stopper tightly. Place one in the ice 
 box, leave the other at room temperature. Fill the third bottle partly with 
 water and leave open in the room. How long do the snails survive in the stop- 
 pered bottles? Does temperature make a difference? Why? How would this 
 apply to the living conditions of snails in winter, when the ponds are covered with 
 ice and they cannot get to the surface? 
 
 5. Desiccation experiment. Take a glass jar, put about an inch of water 
 in it, and several snails. Let stand until the water is completely dried up. What 
 do the snails do? Can they carry on activities in the absence of water? Pick 
 one up and examine. What do you find across the mouth of the shell? Are 
 the snails dead? Put some water in the jar and note results. How does this 
 apply to the possibility of ponds drying up in hot weather? 
 
 6. Reaction to light. Prepare two jars exactly alike, filled with water and 
 containing several snails and some vegetation. Cover one of them completely 
 
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 with black paper, except for a vertical slit one-half inch wide along one side of 
 the jar. Place both jars side by side in a light place, with the slit toward the 
 light. After twenty-four hours remove paper and note quickly the distribution 
 of the snails in both jars. The one jar which is not covered serves as a control, 
 that is, it gives us the distribution of snails on the basis of chance. If the snails 
 in the other jar, which is the experiment, are not so distributed, then we may 
 conclude that light, the one factor which is different in the two cases, must be 
 responsible for the different distribution of the snails in the two jars. This is 
 the way in which every experiment must be conducted to be convincing. What 
 is the reaction of snails to light? Do they go to the bright light, i.e., are they 
 found collected on the slit, or do they remain in the dark, or are they to be found 
 in weak light? How would this affect their distribution in ponds? The condi- 
 tion which an animal selects when put in a gradient of a particular factor is 
 called its optimum. It could similarly be determined which temperature is 
 optimum for the snails by putting them in a trough of water which was warm 
 at one end and very cold at the other; and any other factor can be determined 
 in the same way. 
 
 7. Growth and composition of the shell. Observe the parallel lines upon the 
 shell. They are lines of growth. The shell is secreted by the mantle at its 
 margin and thus grows continually larger. Do small snails have as many spiral 
 turns as large ones? The distance between successive lines of growth records 
 the rate of growth. Can you find places on the shell where the lines of growth 
 are so close together as to make one deep mark on the shell? How do you explain 
 this? Could you determine hi this way how old a snail is? Put an empty shell 
 in hydrochloric acid and observe what happens. What does this indicate as to 
 the composition of the shell? Is the shell entirely soluble in acid? What part 
 is insoluble and why? Does this explain why the shells do not dissolve in the 
 water in which the animal lives? Pond water often becomes acid through the 
 decay of dead organisms in it and the carbonic acid gas produced by the living 
 organisms. Cut out small pieces of shell in living snails, replace in the aquarium 
 and observe whether regeneration occurs. 
 
 8. Reproduction. Egg masses of snails will be commonly found in jars 
 where snails are kept. Where are they placed by the snails? Why should the 
 snail not simply drop them to the bottom of the pond in which it lives? Observe 
 the process of development by removing eggs from time to time and studying 
 under the microscope. In what condition are the young snails when they emerge? 
 Are they completely formed? 
 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LABORATORY ASSISTANTS 
 
 1. Supplies for students. Each student should be provided with a jar or 
 vessel having a tight cover filled with 4 per cent formaldehyde (40 c.c. com- 
 mercial formaldehyde plus 960 c.c. of water); one or two watch glasses; and 
 a piece of filter paper. The jar should be large enough to receive com- 
 fortably the animals used in the course. The student should keep these 
 materials in his locker or elsewhere. Each student will also need a wax- 
 bottomed dissecting pan and finger bowls with glass plates for covers. The 
 dissecting pans are made from low granite-ware pans. The wax used is cerosin 
 (a commercial product obtainable from dealers in laboratory supplies), blackened 
 by lampblack. 
 
 2. Materials for students. Three frogs should be allowed for each student. 
 The student should be directed to keep these frogs in the jar of formaldehyde and 
 warned that he will not receive any others. One frog is for the general dissec- 
 tion; a second for the work on general physiology; and a third, injected, for the 
 circulatory system and nervous system. It is always necessary to admonish the 
 student repeatedly not to leave the animals out on the tables and not to allow 
 them to become dry. Of the other animals one specimen should be sufficient. 
 
 3. Section on frog. Care should be taken that the slit made in the frog at 
 the end of the first laboratory exercise is through the skin only; if through 
 the muscles also the viscera will protrude through the opening and their rela- 
 tions will be distorted. It is usually advisable to warn against cutting the frog 
 in the median ventral line. 
 
 4. Chemicals required. The following solutions and solids are required in 
 the course; they are required in the order named: 
 
 a) Dilute acetic acid for the wiping reflex, about 10 per cent, 10 c.c. of pure 
 glacial acetic acid plus 90 c.c. distilled water. 
 
 b) Powdered carmine. 
 
 c) Artificial gastric juice: i to 2 grams of commercial pepsin, obtainable 
 from any drug house, in 100 c.c. of 0.4 per cent hydrochloric acid. 
 
 d) 0.4 per cent hydrochloric acid, 4 c.c. of pure hydrochloric acid plus 
 996 c.c. distilled water. 
 
 e) Neutral litmus solution can be made by boiling litmus paper, but should 
 preferably be purchased from dealers. 
 
 /) Pancreatic lipase: dissolve one, to two grams of commercial pancreatin, 
 obtainable from drug houses, in 100 c.c. distilled water. Add enough sodium 
 carbonate to render very slightly alkaline. 
 
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 g) Starch paste: stir up one gram of starch (corn starch or any commercial 
 product) in a small amount of cold water and pour slowly while stirring into 
 100 c.c. of boiling distilled water. Allow to boil for a few minutes. Dilute about 
 ten times for using. 
 
 h) Glucose solution: 4 or 5 grams of glucose in a liter of distilled water. 
 
 i) Fehling's solution consists of two solutions, not to be mixed until ready 
 to be used. First solution, 34.65 grams of copper sulphate made up to 500 c.c. 
 with distilled water. Second solution, 125 grams of potassium hydroxide and 
 173 grams of Rochelle salt (potassium sodium tartrate) made up to 500 c.c. 
 with distilled water. Keep separately in rubber-stoppered bottles. Just before 
 using mix in equal quantities, and shake until the blue precipitate formed is 
 completely dissolved, yielding a deep blue, clear solution. The assistant should 
 mix the solutions just before the laboratory period and give the students the 
 mixture. 
 
 j) Saturated solution of barium hydroxide; should be clear. 
 
 k) Physiological salt solution: dissolve 6 to 6j grams of pure sodium chloride 
 in a liter of distilled water. 
 
 /) Aceto-carmine stain (Schneider's): to boiling 45 per cent glacial acetic 
 acid (45 c.c. pure glacial acetic acid plus 55 c.c. distilled water), add powdered 
 carmine until no more will dissolve, and filter. 
 
 m) India ink suspension for feeding Paramecium: get solid carbon sticks, 
 obtainable in stores dealing in photographic supplies, as it is used for retouching, 
 and rub the stick in tap water until a moderately black suspension is obtained. 
 Do not use ordinary India ink as this may contain toxic substances. 
 
 ri) Picro-acetic acid: i c.c. of pure glacial acetic acid, 99 c.c. of distilled 
 water; saturate the solution with picric acid crystals. 
 
 0) Common salt. 
 
 A small bottle containing each of these chemicals should be placed on each 
 table in the laboratory to avoid confusion. Needless to say, sugar, starch, and 
 enzyme solutions will not keep and must be made up fresh shortly before being 
 used. 
 
 In addition to the above the assistant will require the following: 
 
 Ether or chloroform. 
 
 Chloral hydrate solution for macerating tissues of the frog. Weigh out 
 5 grams of chloral hydrate and add enough physiological salt solution to make 
 100 c.c. 
 
 5. Section on general physiology. All of these experiments have been tried 
 repeatedly and have never been known to fail. No frog should be given out 
 that is not properly pithed, as it will certainly create a disturbance. The 
 assistant should thoroughly familiarize himself with the process of pithing. It 
 should always be done with a blunt instrument, not with a needle. Students 
 should be warned about letting the frog dry up. Commercial pepsin and 
 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LABORATORY ASSISTANTS 141 
 
 pancreatin have always been found reliable. A small percentage of human 
 beings have no ptyalin in their saliva. 
 
 6. Section on tissues. This work always proves rather difficult, chiefly 
 because students use too large pieces. Verbal instructions as to the method of 
 procedure will probably be more effective than those written in the outline. 
 Shed epidermis of the frog will be found in the water in which frogs have been 
 kept for a short time. To prepare tissues from the intestine, proceed as follows: 
 Pith a frog. Cut out the small intestine, slit it open, and wash it in physio- 
 logical salt solution. For columnar epithelium put it into 5 per cent chloral 
 hydrate for twelve to eighteen hours. For smooth muscle, scrape off the mucosa 
 and place the rest, consisting of the muscular coats, in 5 per cent chloral hydrate 
 for twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Connective tissue is always best obtained 
 from a frog which has been preserved in formalin; and striated muscle is usually 
 better from such a source, unless the fresh muscle is carefully handled. Fresh 
 slices of cartilage are infinitely better than any permanent preparations; they are 
 obtained from the ends of the long bones of the frog with a sharp razor. Fresh 
 blood may be obtained by cutting off the toes of a pithed frog and pressing the 
 bleeding ends of the toes against a slide. It is very necessary that the physio- 
 logical salt solution used for blood be exactly isotonic with the blood, or else the 
 blood cells will become distorted. The myelin sheaths of fresh nerves usually 
 become distorted, producing appearances commonly mistaken for nodes of 
 Ranvier. Students almost always have trouble with the Golgi preparations of 
 nerve cells, often mistaking meaningless deposits of silver on the sections for 
 nerve cells. 
 
 7. Section on detailed anatomy. For the study of the circulatory system, 
 injected frogs are essential. To inject a frog, etherize it, cut off the tip of the 
 ventricle and thrust the cannula of the injection syringe up into the conus 
 arteriosus. All of the arteries and the postcaval vein and its branches are injected 
 in this manner. Veins are best studied in freshly etherized frogs, although they 
 are fairly satisfactory in injected specimens if these are injected shortly before 
 using. We have sometimes let the students work out the veins on freshly 
 etherized frogs and then injected the arteries on the same frogs. This has proved 
 satisfactory. After the frogs are injected a piece of the skull should be removed 
 and the frogs placed in fairly strong formaldehyde, about 8 per cent. This 
 serves not only to harden the injected vessels but also to harden the central 
 nervous system, which can then be studied on the same specimens. The injec- 
 tion mass is made of 800 c.c. glycerin, 1,600 c.c. of water, 3 boxes of cornstarch, 
 50 c.c. of carbolic acid (melted crystals) or thymol, and enough coloring matter 
 of the color desired (Berlin blue, carmine, chrome yellow, etc.) to give a deep 
 brilliant color to the whole. Stir up before using. In the case of the frog it is 
 not necessary to tie the cannula in the conus nor to tie up the conus after with- 
 drawing the cannula, but simply hold the cannula in with the fingers. 
 
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 8. Section on embryology. The frog material used is preserved in formalin. 
 Excellent permanent mounts of halves of early frog embryos can be made as 
 follows: Use slides provided with cells, or make such a cell by sticking hard 
 rubber rings to the slide with balsam. Section the embryos with a sharp razor 
 and mount in the cell in glycerin jelly. The cover glass must be sealed with 
 cement or varnish. To make glycerin jelly, dissolve 6 grams of best gelatin 
 in 42 c.c. of water, and add 50 c.c. of glycerin, and 2 grams of carbolic acid 
 crystals. Warm (not above 75 C.), and stir until homogeneous. It must be 
 liquefied each time used by placing in warm water. 
 
 9. Section on Mendel's law. Culture bottles for Drosophila are prepared as 
 follows: Use a wide-mouthed eight-ounce bottle stoppered with cotton. Put 
 a piece of very ripe banana in the bottle and sterilize. Stir up compressed yeast 
 with water to make a paste and drop 2 or 3 c.c. of this on the banana. Put also 
 into the bottle a piece of filter paper to absorb extra moisture. The female 
 flies to be used for a breeding experiment must be isolated from males within 
 a few hours after they emerge from the pupa in order to be certain that they are 
 virgin. Other directions for Drosophila cultures are given by Bridges in the 
 American Naturalist, Vol. LV, pp. 52-62. Live Drosophila are sold by the dealers 
 mentioned in 15. 
 
 10. Section on Protozoa. Cultures of Protozoa and other micro-organisms 
 may be prepared as follows: 
 
 a) Gather a lot of aquatic plants, rotten lily pads, etc., from a pond, pack 
 into a vessel, add just enough water to cover them, and allow to decay. This 
 yields in about a month very good and lasting cultures of Paramecium, and 
 other Protozoa. 
 
 b) Boil some wheat grains for a few minutes, and put into jars of water in the 
 proportions of about one to two dozen grains to two liters of water. Add a little 
 water, mud, or vegetation from a pond, or if desired to raise a pure culture add 
 a few individuals of the protozoan desired. 
 
 c) Boil some hay in a quantity of water for several hours until the water 
 becomes dark brown. Put this brown water into jars with a small quantity 
 of the hay and inoculate with material from a pond or withihe Protozoa desired. 
 
 These three methods will yield all of the common Protozoa. Such cultures, 
 when they begin to die out, can be rejuvenated within two or three days by 
 adding some crumbs of stale bread. 
 
 These methods, particularly the first, will commonly yield small amoebae, 
 but it is difficult to obtain a supply of large amoebae for a large class, and they 
 had better be purchased if possible. Old wheat cultures which have become 
 green often yield large amoebae, as do also cultures of diatoms. 
 
 11. Section on Paramecium. To make Paramecium stand still, gelatin 
 solutions, jelly made from boiled quince seed, and jelly from Chondrus 
 (Irish moss) have been used satisfactorily by many people, particularly the 
 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LABORATORY ASSISTANTS 143 
 
 last-named material. We have found that a dilute solution of formalde- 
 hyde is remarkably effective for the purpose. Add one drop of formal- 
 dehyde to 100 c.c. of water, and test it on Paramecium. If too strong 
 continue to dilute until a strength is found which seems to have no effect 
 on the animals immediately but in a few minutes causes them to slow 
 down very gradually. The solution may be used as directed in the manual 
 or a drop of solution may be placed alongside the edge of the cover glass. In 
 the latter case a stronger solution will be required. If the assistant will take 
 the trouble to find out the proper strength by trial in advance, he will find the 
 method to be very successful. 
 
 12. Section on Hydra. To obtain Hydra collect aquatic plants, particularly 
 soft ones, from clear ponds or bays in sluggish streams. Place the plants in 
 jars, using a large amount of water to a small quantity of the plants. As the 
 animals become noticeable, they may be picked out and placed in a smaller 
 vessel. If they are to be kept for any length of time they must be fed with 
 Entomostraca. To raise Entomostraca place two or three inches of pond mud 
 in a glass vessel, fill with water, and throw in from time to time a few grains of 
 boiled wheat. If Entomostraca do not appear of themselves in such a culture, 
 as they usually will, a few to start it should be obtained from ponds. It is 
 possible by this method to grow the Hydra and the Entomostraca in the same 
 vessel, by keeping the fermentation of the wheat to the lowest possible level. 
 The work with the structure of the living animal is always rather difficult for 
 students and may profitably be omitted. Small individuals are best for the 
 purpose. 
 
 13. Section on Planaria. Planaria occurs in spring-fed pools and in ponds. 
 To collect from springs, hang a piece of meat in the current for an hour or two, 
 whereupon Planaria, if present, will attach to the meat and may then be shaken 
 off into a bottle. Collect quantities of plants from ponds and place in pans 
 with a small quantity of water. After a few days, as the plants decay, Planaria, 
 if present, will gather at the surface and should be removed. Planarians are 
 very intolerant of stagnant water and must be kept in large open pans in which 
 the water is frequently changed. They should be fed every few days with fresh 
 liver. The liver must always be removed within a few hours and the pan and 
 worms thoroughly washed. The digestive tract of Planaria will always stand 
 out plainly if the anaesthetized animals are pressed out as described in the 
 manual. However, it can be made to stand out beautifully on the intact animals 
 by feeding them on blood clots shortly before they are to be used. To demon- 
 strate the feeding of Planaria use worms which have been starved for a week 
 or two. 
 
 14. Section on the earthworm. The dissection of the reproductive system 
 should ordinarily be omitted. Directions are given merely for the sake of com- 
 pleteness. 
 
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 15. Dealers in supplies. Living Amoebae can be purchased from A. A. 
 Schaeffer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. Other Protozoa 
 (sometimes amoeba also), Hydra, Planaria, etc., are sold by Powers & 
 Powers, Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska. Various live materials, including live 
 frogs, preserved material, and prepared slides necessary for this course, are sold 
 by the General Biological Supply House, 1177 East Fifty-fifth Street, Chicago; 
 the Anglers Company, 1534 West Lake Street, Chicago; and the Marine Bio- 
 logical Laboratory, Supply Department, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Abdomen: grasshopper IIQ, 120; 
 
 lobster 107 
 Abdominal appendages: grasshopper 
 
 IIQ, 120; lobster 108 
 Abdominal segment, lobster 107 
 Absorption, definition of 18 
 Action of muscle 56 
 Activities. See Behavior 
 Adrenal gland n, 37 
 Air sacs, grasshopper 121 
 Alimentary canal, definition of 9 
 Alternation of generations 87, 88 
 Alternative inheritance 69 
 Alveoli of lungs 41 
 Amoeba 72-73 
 
 Amoeboid movement 16, 30, 72 
 Amoeboid organisms 79 
 Amphipods 125 
 Anaphase 63 
 Anemones 88 
 Animal behavior 135 
 Animal hemisphere 66 
 Annelida: in text 80, 95-132; in key 
 
 131, 132 
 Antenna: grasshopper 118; lobster 
 
 106, 109, no, in 
 Antennule 106, 107, 109, no, in 
 Anus: frog 3, 40; earthworm 97; 
 
 grasshopper 120, 123; lobster 
 
 107, 114; Nereis 96; Paramecium 
 76, 77 
 
 Aortic arches, frog 44, 46 
 
 Apex of ventricle 9 
 
 Appendages: biramous 107; folicae- 
 ous 109; grasshopper 117-20; 
 lobster 106-10; typical in lobster 
 107; uniramous 108 
 
 Appendicular: definition of a; skele- 
 ton 51 
 
 Aqueduct of Sylvius 48 
 
 Arachnids 125 
 
 Archenteron 66 
 
 Arterial arches 44 
 
 Arterial system: frog 44-45; lobster 
 112, 113, 116 
 
 Arteries: frog: carotids 44, coeliaco- 
 mesenteric 45, common iliac 45, 
 cutaneous 5, 44, dorsal aorta 45, 
 pulmonary 44, systemic arch 44; 
 lobster 112, 113, 116 
 
 Artery, definition of 9, 20 
 
 Arthropoda: in text 81, 106-25; 
 in key 131, 133 
 
 Arthropodial membranes 107, 117 
 
 Ascaris, mitosis in 62-64 
 
 Assimilation, definition of 22, 23 
 
 Aster 63 
 
 Asterias, development of 65, 66 
 
 Atlas 52 
 
 Auricle of heart 9, 45, 46 
 
 Axial, definition of 2 
 
 Axial skeleton 51 
 
 Axis cylinder 32 
 
 Axone 31, 32 
 
 Barnacles 124 
 
 Basipod, definition of 107 
 
 Battery 82, 84 
 
 Behavior: Amoeba 73; frog, 15, 19; 
 
 Hydra 83; Paramecium 74, 76, 77; 
 
 Planaria go, 92 
 Belly of muscle 56 
 Bilateral symmetry 2, 61 
 Bile 30; capillaries 33; duct 39, 40 
 Binomial system 127 
 Biramous appendage 107 
 Bladder: gall 10, 39, 40; ligaments 
 
 of 8, zo; urinary 8, 9, 40, 41 
 
 Blastopore 66, 67 
 
 Blastostyle 87 
 
 Blastula: frog 66; starfish 65 
 
 Blood: cells of 30, 31; circulation of, 
 in earthworm 99; circulation of, in 
 frog 20; composition of, in frog 
 20, 30, 31; corpuscles of 20, 30, 31; 
 function of 20, 23; histology of 
 30,31 
 
 Blood corpuscles: red 30; white 30, 31 
 
 Blood sinuses: grasshopper 120, 121, 
 122; lobster 112, 113, 115 
 
 Blowfly: 20-23; adults 20, 21; egg- 
 laying 20; eggs 21 ; larvae 21, 22; 
 life-cycle 20-23; pupae 22 
 
 Body cavity: earthworm 97, 102; 
 frog 6, 7, 8; origin in embryo 67 
 
 Body wall: earthworm 97, 98, 101, 
 103; frog 5, 7; grasshopper 117, 
 120, 121 ; histology of in earthworm 
 103; lobster in, 112 
 
 Bone, structure of 30 
 
 Bones of frog 6, 51-55; kinds of, in 
 skeleton 51; hyoid apparatus 5, 54; 
 limbs 55; lower jaw 53; pectoral 
 girdle 6, 54; pelvic girdle 6, 54; 
 skull 52, 53; sternum 6, 54; upper 
 jaw 53; vertebral column 51, 52 
 
 Brachial plexus 48 
 
 Brachiopoda in key 130 
 
 Brain: earthworm 99, 102; frog 
 12, 46-48; functions of in frog 
 49, 50; grasshopper 124; lobster 
 115; Planaria 91 
 
 Branchiae, lobster no 
 
 Branchial chamber, lobster 107 
 108, no. in 
 
 Breastbone 6, 54 
 
 Brow spot 3, 47 
 
 Bryozoa in key 130 
 
 Buccal cavity, frog 4, 5 
 
 Buccal pouch, earthworm 99 
 
 Buds: Hydra 86; medusa 87 
 
 Bulbus arteriosus 9 
 
 Calcareous body, frog 48 
 
 Calciferous glands, earthworm 99 
 
 Campanularia 86-88 
 
 Capillary 9, 20 
 
 Carapace 106 
 
 Carbohydrates: definition of 16; 
 digestion of 18 
 
 Cardiac chamber, lobster 114 
 
 Cardiac end of stomach, frog 39 
 
 Carotid arch 44; arteries 44 
 
 Cartilage, structure of 29 
 
 Cartilage bone: definition of 51; 
 in skeleton 52 
 
 Cell: definition of 24; body of 
 nerve cells 31; division 62-641 
 membrane 25; structure of typical 
 25, 26 
 
 Cells: chlorogogue 104; of earth- 
 worm 103, 104; of frog: blood 
 30, 31, bone 30, brain 31, car- 
 tilage 29, connective tissue 29, 
 epithelial 27, 28, intestine 33, 34, 
 kidney 37, 38, liver 25, 33, motor, 
 of cord 31, 38, muscle 28, 29, 
 nerve 31, reproductive 32, skin 
 
 Cellular structure of: body wall, 
 earthworm 103; earthworm 103, 
 104; frog 27-38; Hydra 83-85; 
 intestine, earthworm 104; intestine. 
 
 145 
 
 frog 33, 34; kidney 37, 38; liver 
 25, 33J nerve cord, earthworm 114; 
 Planaria 92; skin 36, 37; spinal 
 cord 38; stomach 35, 36 
 
 Centipedes 125 
 
 Central canal, spinal cord 38 
 
 Centrosome 63, 64 
 
 Centrum of vertebra 51 
 
 Cephalization 61 
 
 Cephalothorax 106 
 
 Cerebellum 47, 50 
 
 Cerebral hemispheres 47, 50 
 
 Cervical groove 106 
 
 Cestodes 94 
 
 Chaetae 96 
 
 Chaetonotus 80 
 
 Chela 109, 112 
 
 Chitin 106, 117 
 
 Chlorogogue cells 104 
 
 Choanae 4 
 
 Chordata in key 131 
 
 Chordotonal organ 120 
 
 Chromatin 25, 63, 70 
 
 Chromatophores 16, 20, 36 
 
 Chromosomes 63, 64 
 
 Cilia: of cilia te Protozoa 79; of 
 epithelium 28; of flatworms 80; 
 of frog 1 6, 28; of Paramecium 75; 
 of Planaria 90; of rotifers 80 
 
 Ciliary movement, experiment on 16 
 
 Ciliate Protozoa 79 
 
 Ciliated epithelium 28 
 
 Circulation of the blood: in earth- 
 worm 99; in frog 20 
 
 Circulatory systems: earthworm 98, 
 99; frog, general 9; frog, special 
 41-45; function of 20, 23; grass- 
 hopper 121-22; lobster 112, 113, 
 115, 116 
 
 Circum-esophageal commissures: 
 earthworm 102; grasshopper 124; 
 lobster 115 
 
 Cirri 79, 95, 96 
 
 Cisterna magna n 
 
 Class, definition of 128 
 
 Classification: definiton of 127; 
 exercise on 127-34; of animals 
 120-34 
 
 Cleavage: of Asterias egg 65; of 
 frog egg 66; of starfish egg 66 
 
 Clitellum 96 
 
 Cloaca 40, 41 
 
 Clypeus 117 
 
 Cnidoblasts 84, 85 
 
 Cnidocil 84, 85 
 
 Coats of the intestine 33-35 
 
 Coelenterata: in text 82-89; in 
 key 129, 132 
 
 Coelome: earthworm 97. 98; frog 
 6-7; grasshopper 120; lobster 112; 
 origin in embryo 67, 71 
 
 Coenosarc 87 
 
 Colony hydroid 86, 87 
 
 Columella 3, 55 
 
 Conductivity: definition of 14; 
 experiment on 14, 15 
 
 Conjugation, Paramecium 78 
 
 Connective tissue: definition of 29; 
 kinds of 29, 30 
 
 Contractile vacuole: Amoeba 72, 73; 
 Paramecium 76 
 
 Contractility: definition of 15; ex- 
 periment on 15, 16; of heart 15, 16; 
 of involuntary muscle 15; of 
 voluntary muscle 15 
 
 Conus arteriosus 9, 44, 45, 46 
 
 Corals 88, 89 
 
 Corium of skin 36 
 
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 LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY 
 
 Cornea in 
 
 Cornua: of gray matter 58; of 
 
 hyoid 54 
 
 Corpuscles 20, 30, 31 
 Correlation in nervous system 50 
 Coxopod, definition of 107 
 Crabs 125 
 
 Cranial nerves 12, 47 
 Crayfish 106 
 Crop: earthworm 99; grasshopper 
 
 123 
 Cross-section: comparative 126; 
 
 earthworm 102, 103, 104; frog 13; 
 
 Hydra 85; Planaria 92 
 Crustacea 124, 125 
 Cryptoretic organs 9 
 Ctenophora in key 129 
 Cultures: methods for Entomostraca 
 
 143; Hydra 143; Planaria 143; 
 
 Protozoa 142, 143; study of 78-81 
 Cuticle: earthworm 97, 103; lobster 
 
 106; Paramecium 75 
 Cyclops 51 
 
 Cystic ducts of liver 40 
 Cytopharynx 75 
 Cytoplasm, definition of 25 
 
 Daddy longlegs 125 
 
 Death, meaning of i 
 
 Defecation, definition of 19 
 
 Dendrite 31 
 
 Dermal bone, definition of 51 
 
 Dermis of skin 36 
 
 Development: Asterias 65-66; blow- 
 fly 20-23; definition of 20, 65; 
 Drosophtla 20-23; fly 20-23; frog 
 66-68; general account of 71; star- 
 fish 65-66 
 
 Diastase: definition of 17; experi- 
 ment on 1 8 
 
 Diencephalon 47, 48, 50 
 
 Digestion: definition of 16, 17; 
 experiments on 17, 18 
 
 Digestive apparatus, Paramecium 
 ?6, 77, 78 
 
 Digestive gland, lobster 112, 114 
 
 Digestive system: earthworm 99, 
 100; frog, general 9; frog, special 
 39-40; functions of 16; grasshopper 
 123; Hydra 82; lobster 114; 
 Planaria 91 
 
 Dominant character 69 
 
 Dorsal aorta 45 
 
 Drosophila: breeding experiment 
 69-70; life cycle 20-23; method of 
 culture 142 
 
 Drum membrane 2 
 
 Duodenum 10, 39 
 
 Ear: frog 3; grasshopper 120 
 Earthworm 96-104; circulatory sys- 
 tem 98; coelome 97; digestive 
 system 99, 100; excretory system 
 100; external anatomy 96-97; in- 
 ternal anatomy 97-102 ; microscopic 
 structure 102-4; muscles 102, 103; 
 nerve cord 104; nervous system 
 101, 102; reproductive system 
 
 IOO, IOI 
 
 Echinodermata in key 129, 132 
 Ecology: definition of 135; exercise on 
 
 135-38 
 Ectoderm: embryo 66, 67, 71; fate 
 
 of, in frog 67; general function of 
 
 71; Hydra 83, 85; Planaria go, 92 
 Ectoplasm 72, 75 
 Ectosarc 75 
 
 Egestion, definition of 19 
 Egg, development of 65-68 
 Egg guide 1 20, 122 
 Egg-laying of: flies 20; grasshopper 
 
 120, 122, 123 
 Eggs: Ascaris 62-64; definition of 
 
 20; fish 64; flies 20-21; frog 32; 
 
 sea-urchin 26; starfish 65 
 Embryology 65-68; Asterias 65-66; 
 
 frog 66-68; starfish 65-66 
 Endocrinous organs 8 
 Endophragmal skeleton 115 
 
 Endoplasm: Amoeba 72; Paramecium 
 
 Endopod, definition of 107 
 
 Endosarc 75 
 
 Endoskeleton: definition of 51; 
 frog 51-55 
 
 Entoderm: embryo 66, 67, 71; 
 fate of, in frog 67; general function 
 of 71; Hydra 83, 85; Planaria 90 
 
 Entomostraca 81, 124 
 
 Environment, factors of 135, 136 
 
 Enzymes: definition of 17; experi- 
 ments on 17, 18 
 
 Epicranium 117 
 
 Epidermis: earthworm 102, 103; 
 frog 27, 36; grasshopper 117; 
 lobster in; Planaria 92 
 
 Epimeron 107, 117 
 
 Epipharynx 118 
 
 Epithelial tissues 27-28 
 
 Epithelium: ciliated 28; columnar 
 27; definition of 27; in earthworm 
 104; in Hydra 85; in intestine of 
 frog 34; in Planaria 92; squamous 
 27; stratified 36 
 
 Esophagus: earthworm 99; frog 
 S> 19. 391 grasshopper 123; lobster 
 114 
 
 Eustachian tube 4 
 
 Excretion, definition of 19 
 
 Excretory systems: earthworm 100; 
 frog, general 1 1 ; frog, special 40, 41 ; 
 function of 19, 23; grasshopper 123; 
 lobster 115; Planaria 91 
 
 Exopod, definition of 107 
 
 Exoskeleton: definition of 51; grass- 
 hopper 117; lobster 106 
 
 Eyelids, frog 2 
 
 Eyes: frog 2; grasshopper 117; 
 lobster 106, in; Nereis 95; Plan- 
 aria 90, 91; snail, 136 
 
 Family, in classification 127 
 
 Fascia: definition of 56; dorsal 57; 
 
 lata 59 
 
 Fat body: frog n; grasshopper 121 
 Fats: definition of 16; digestion of 
 
 17, 18 
 
 Feces, definition of 19 
 Fehling's solution 18, 140 
 Fertilization: definition of 20, 65; 
 
 membrane 65 
 
 Fibers of connective tissue 29 
 Fish eggs, mitosis in 64 
 Fission, Paramecium 77, 78 
 Flagellates 80 
 Flagellum, definition of 80 
 Flatworms 80 
 
 Flukes 93 
 Fly: adu 
 
 Fly: adult anatomy 21; blowfly 
 20-23; eggs 21; fruit fly 21; 
 larvae 21, 22; life-cycle 21-23; 
 pupae 22 
 
 Foliaceous appendage 109 
 
 Food ingestion: Paramecium 76, 77; 
 Planaria 92, 93; snail 136, 137 
 
 Food vacuoles: Amoeba 73; Para- 
 mecium 75, 76, 77 
 
 Foot, snail 136 
 
 Foramen magnum 52 
 
 Foramen of Monro 48 
 
 Frog (1-61): arterial system 44-45; 
 blood 30, 31; body wall 5-7; 
 brain 46-48; buccal cavity 4-5; 
 circulation of the blood 20; circu- 
 latory system: function 20, general 
 anatomy 9, special anatomy 
 41-46, coelome 6-7; cross-section 
 13; digestive system: function 
 16-18 general anatomy 9-10, 
 special anatomy 39-40; excretory 
 system: function ip, general 
 anatomy 5, special anatomy 
 40-41; external anatomy 1-3; 
 glands of internal secretion 7. 
 ii, 12; heart 45, 46; histology of 
 tissues 24-32; histology of organs: 
 intestine 33, 34, kidney 37, 38. 
 liver 33, skin 36, 37, spinal cord 
 38, stomach 35, 36; internal 
 
 anatomy: general 5-13, special 
 39-61; mesenteries: general state- 
 ment 7. 8, of bladder 8, 10, of 
 digestive tract 10, of reproductive 
 system u; muscles: abdomen 6, 
 58, function 15-16, general 5-6, 
 hyoid apparatus 58, 59, lower jaw 
 57, 58, parts of a muscle 56, shank 
 60, 61, thigh 59, 60, tongue 59; 
 nervous system: function 14, 49, 50, 
 general anatomy 12, special ana- 
 tomy 46-49; physiology: digestive 
 system 16-18, circulatory system 
 20, excretory system 19, muscular 
 system 15-16, nervous system 
 14-15, reproductive system 20-23, 
 respiratory system 18-19, summary 
 23; reproductive system: general 
 anatomy 4-5, special anatomy 40- 
 41; respiratory system: function 
 18, 19, general anatomy 9, special 
 anatomy 41; sense organs 12; 
 skeleton: hyoid apparatus 5, 54, 
 limbs 55, lower jaw 53, pectoral 
 girdle 6, 54, pelvic girdle 6, 54, 
 skull 52, 53, sternum 6, 54, upper 
 jaw 53, vertebral column 51, 52; 
 tissues: blood 30, 31, connective 
 29, 30, epithelial 27, 28, muscular 
 28, 29, nervous 31-32, reproduc- 
 tive 32; urinogenital system: 
 general anatomy 4, 5, special 
 anatomy 40-41; venous system 
 41-44 
 
 Frons 117 
 
 Fruit fly 21-23 
 
 Gall bladder 10, 39, 40 
 
 Ganglia: earthworm 101. 102, 103; 
 grasshopper 123, 124; lobster 115, 
 116; spinal 48, 49; sympathetic 12 
 
 Ganglion, definition of 49 
 
 Gastric: gland, frog 35; juice 17; 
 mill 114; muscles, lobster in, 114 
 
 Gastrolith 114 
 
 Gastrovascular cavity: definition of 
 82; Hydra 82, 83; Planaria 91 
 
 Gastrula: Asterias 66; frog 66; 
 general significance 71; starfish 66 
 
 Gastrula stage, general 71 
 
 Gena 117 
 
 Generic name, definition of 127 
 
 Genus, definition of 127 
 
 Germ layers in embryo 66, 71 
 
 Giant fibers 104 
 
 Gill: slits of tadpole 68; supports, 
 tadpole 52 
 
 Gills, lobster 107, 108, 109, no 
 
 Gizzard: earthworm 99; grasshopper 
 123 
 
 Glands: of frog: adrenal n, 37, 
 cutaneous 36, gastric 35, mucous 
 36, 37, poison 37; 01 internal 
 secretion 8, n 
 
 Glomerulus 38 
 
 Glottis 5, 41 
 
 Goblet cells 27, 34 
 
 Gonads, definition of 10 
 
 Gonotheca 87 
 
 Gonozooids 87 
 
 Grasshopper: abdomen ^ 119-120; 
 appendages 117-20; circulatory 
 system 121-22; digestive system 
 123; excretory system 123; exter- 
 nal anatomy 117-20; head 117-18; 
 internal anatomy 120-24; nervous 
 system 123-24; reproductive 120, 
 122-23; respiratory system 121; 
 sense organs 117, 118, 124; thoraj 
 118-19 
 
 Gray matter of cord 31, 38 
 
 Green gland 115 
 
 Gullet, Paramecium 75 
 
 Haversian canals 30 
 
 Head: earthworm 96; frog 1-5; 
 grasshopper 117-18; lobster 106, 
 107,109,110; Nereis 95; Planaria 
 go; snail 136; appendages: grass- 
 hopper 117-18, lobster 109-10. 
 
INDEX 
 
 147 
 
 Nereis 95; dominance of 61; of a 
 muscle 56 
 
 Heart: frog 9, 45, 46; grasshopper 
 121, 122; lobster 112, 113 
 
 Heart beat 15 
 
 Hearts, earthworm 98 
 
 Heliozoa 70 
 
 Hepatic: ducts 40; portal system 42; 
 portal vein 42 
 
 Heredity experiment 69-70 
 
 Histology: definition of 24; earth- 
 worm 102-4; frog, organs ,33-38; 
 frog tissues 24-33; Hydra 83-85; 
 intestine, frog 33, 34; kidney, frog 
 37, 38; liver 33; Planaria 92; 
 skin, frog 36, 37; spinal cord, 
 frog 38; stomach, frog 35, 36 
 
 Horns of gray matter 38 
 
 Horseshoe crab 125 
 
 Hybrids 69, 70 
 
 Hydra: behavior 83; cells of 83-85; 
 cross-section 85; general structure 
 82; nematocysts 82, 84; repro- 
 duction 86; reproductive organs 
 86 
 
 Hydranth 87 
 
 Hydroid colony 86-88 
 
 Hydrotheca 87 
 
 Hyoid apparatus 5, 41, 53, 54; mus- 
 cles of 58, so 
 
 Hypophysis 48 
 
 Hypostome 82 
 
 Ileum 39 
 
 Inferior lobes 48 
 
 Infundibulum 48 
 
 Insects 125; in key 131, 133 
 
 Insertion of muscle 56 
 
 Intercellular substance: definition of 
 26; in blood 30; in connective 
 tissue 29; in epithelium 27; in 
 muscle 28 
 
 Intestine: earthworm 100, 104; 
 frog o, 10, 39, 40; grasshopper 123; 
 histology of, in earthworm 104; 
 histology of in frog 33-35; lobster 
 114; Planaria 91 
 
 Investing bone, definition of 51 
 
 Iris 2 
 
 Irritability: definition of 14; experi- 
 ment on 14, 15; of Amoeba 73; 
 of Hydra 83; of nervous system 
 14, 15; of Paramecium 77; of 
 Planaria 90 
 
 Jaws: bones of frog 52, S3! fly larva 
 22; frog 4-5; muscles of frog 
 
 57-58 
 Jellyfish 88 
 
 Karyokinesis 62 
 
 Key: to classes 131-34; to phyla 
 129-31 
 
 Kidney: frog n, 37, 40, 41; func- 
 tions of 19, 23; histology of 37 
 
 King crab 125 
 
 Labrum: grasshopper 117, 118; 
 lobster no 
 
 Lacuna: bone 30; cartilage 29 
 
 Ladder type, nervous system 116 
 
 Large intestine, frog 9, 40 
 
 Larvae, fly 21-22 
 
 Laryngeal chamber 41 
 
 Laryngeal prominence 5 
 
 Larynx 9, 91 
 
 Leeches 105- 
 
 Legs, parts of: grasshopper ng; 
 lobster 108, 109 
 
 Leucocytes 30 
 
 Life-cycle fly 20-^23 
 
 Ligament definition of 7 
 
 Ligaments of frog: coronary g, 10; 
 falciform of liver 8; hepato-gastro- 
 duodenal 10, 39; lateral of bladder 
 10; median of bladder 8, 10; 
 rectovesical 10; suspensory of 
 liver 8, *o. See also under Mesen- 
 teries 
 
 Limbs of frog: bones of 55; external 
 anatomy of 3; muscles of 59, 60, 61 
 
 Linea alba 6 
 
 Linin network 25 
 
 Linnaeus 127 
 
 Lipase: action of 17; definition of 17; 
 experiment on 17 
 
 Liver: cells 25; frog 8, 39; histology 
 of 33; lobes of 39; lobster 114 
 
 Lobes: of brain 46, 47; of liver 39 
 
 Lobster: abdomen 106, 107, 108; 
 abdominal appendages 107; append- 
 ages 107-10; circulatory system 
 112, 113, 115, 116; digestive sys- 
 tem 114; excretory system 115; 
 external anatomy 106-11; head 
 106-7; head appendages 100-10; 
 internal anatomy 111-16; muscles 
 111-12; nervous system 115-16; 
 reproductive system 113-14; res- 
 piratory system no-ii; segmen- 
 tation 106-16; sense organs in; 
 thoracic appendages 107-8, 109, 
 no, in; thorax 106, 107, no, in 
 
 Lungs 9, 41 
 
 Lymphocytes 31 
 
 Lymph 5: sac subvertebral n; 
 sacs, frog 5, n, 13; spaces, frog 5, 
 ii 
 
 Malpighian bodies of kidney 37; 
 tubules 123 
 
 Mandible: frog 53, 57; grasshopper 
 118; lobster 109, no 
 
 Mandibular arch, frog: bones of 53; 
 muscles of 57 
 
 Matrix: of bone 50; of cartilage 29; 
 of connective tissue 29 
 
 Maxilla: grasshopper 118; lobster 
 109, 1 10 
 
 Maxillary: arch, bones of 53; teeth 
 4, 53 
 
 Maxillipeds 108, 109 
 
 Meckel's cartilage 53 
 
 Medulla oblongata 47, 50 
 
 Medullary folds 67; sheath 32 
 
 Medusa buds 87 
 
 Medusae 87, 88 
 
 Membrane bone 51. 52 
 
 Mendel 70 
 
 Mendel's law 69, 70 
 
 Mesenteries, earthworm 97 
 
 Mesenteries, frog 7, 8, 10, n; dorsal 
 8, 10; dorsal of liver 10; mesentery 
 of intestine 10; meso-esophageum 
 10; mesogaster 10; mesorchium 
 11, 40; mesorectum ii; mesotu- 
 barium 11; mesovarium n, 4^1; 
 ventral 8, 10. See also under Lig- 
 aments 
 
 Mesentery, definition of 7 
 
 Mesoderm: embryo 66, 67, 71; 
 fate of, in frog 67; general 
 canceof7i; Planaria go, 92 
 
 Mesogloea, 83, 85 
 
 Mesothorax 118, 119 
 
 Metabolism, definition of 23 
 
 Metagenesis 87, 88 
 
 Metamere, definition of gs 
 
 Metamorphosis, definition of 22 
 
 Metaphase 63 
 
 Metathorax 118, 119 
 
 Millipedes 125 
 
 Mites 125 
 
 Mitosis 62-64 
 
 Mitotic figure 63 
 Mollusca in key 130, 
 
 133 
 
 Molluscoidea in key 130 
 Morphology, definition of 14 
 Mouth: cavity: earthworm gg, 
 frog 44; earthworm 96, frog 4; 
 grasshopper 1 1 8; Hydra 82; lobster 
 107, no; Nereis 95; Paramecium 
 75; Planaria 91; parts: grass- 
 hopper 117, 118; lobster 107, 109, 
 no 
 
 Mucus (33, 103, go): cells: earth- 
 worm 103, Planaria go, 92; glands: 
 earthworm 103, frog 36, Planaria 
 92; thread of snail 136 
 
 Muscle: cells, structure of 28, 2g: 
 contractility of 15; function of 
 15, 16; heart 15, 16; involuntary 
 15, 28; kinds of 15, 28, 29; micro- 
 scopic structure of 28, 29; parts of 
 56; smooth 28; striated 28, 29 
 typical 56; voluntary 28, 29 
 
 Muscles of: abdomen, frog 58; body 
 wall earthworm 102, 103; body 
 wall frog 5-6; chela 112; earth 
 worm 102, 103; frog 5, 6, 15, 56-61; 
 grasshopper 121; Hydra 85; hyoirl 
 apparatus 58; lobster in, 112; 
 lower jaw frog 57, 58; Planaria 92; 
 shank frog 60; thigh frog 59; 
 tongue frog 58, 59; trunk frog 
 
 Muscular: system: earthworm 102, 
 103, frog 5, 6, 15, 56-61, function 
 of 15; grasshopper 121, Hydra 85, 
 lobster in, 112. Planaria 92; 
 tissue, structure of 28, 29 
 
 Myelin 32 
 
 Naids 80 
 
 Nares: external 2; internal 4; 
 method of closure 58; respiratory 
 movements of 18, 19 
 
 Nemathelminthes 80; in key 130 
 
 Nematocysts 82, 84, 85 
 
 Nematodes 80 
 
 Nemertinea in key 130 
 
 Nephridia: earthworm g8, zoo, 102; 
 lobster 115 
 
 Nephridiopore 100 
 
 Nephrostome 100 
 
 Nereis 95, 96 
 
 Nerve: conductivity in 14, 15; 
 definition of 31; irritability of 14, 
 15; roots of 51; sciatic 15; stim- 
 ulation of 15; structure of 32 
 
 Nerve cells: brain 31; earthworm 
 99, 102, 104; frog 31, 32 38; lobster 
 i n ; motor of cord 31,32; Planaria 
 90, 92; spinal cord frog 38; struc- 
 ture of 31, 32 
 
 Nerve cords: earthworm 99, 102, 104; 
 grasshopper 123, 124; lobster 
 115, 116; Planaria 92 
 
 Nerve plexus, frog 48 
 
 Nerves: cranial, frog 12, 47; roots 
 of 51; spinal, frog 12, 48, 49 
 
 Nervous system: central, frog 12, 
 46-50; earthworm 101, 102; frog 
 12, 46-50; function of 14, 40-50; 
 grasshopper 123. 124; Hydra 86; 
 lobster 115, 116; origin of, in 
 embryo 67; peripheral, frog 12, 
 47-49; Planaria 91, 92; sympa- 
 thetic, frog 12 
 
 Neural: arches 12, 51; canal 12, 47, 
 51; fold 67; spine 51 
 
 Neurilemma 32 
 
 Neuroglia 38 
 
 Nictitating membrane 4 
 
 Nostrils 2 
 
 Notochord 67 
 
 No turn 117 
 
 Nuclear membrane 25 
 
 Nucleolus 26, 64 
 
 Nucleus: Amoeba 73; definition of 
 24; in mitosis 62-64; Paramecium 
 76; structure of 25, 26 
 
 Nutritive zooids 87 
 
 Obelia 86-88 
 
 Ocelli 117 
 
 Occipital condyles 53 
 
 Olfactory lobes 46, 50; nerve 47; 
 
 sense: frog 50; grasshopper 124; 
 
 lobster in; Planaria 91, 92 
 Ommatidia in, 117 ' 
 One-celled animals 72-80 
 Ontogeny, definition of 20 
 Optical section, definition of 65 
 Optic chiasma 48; ganglion, lobster 
 
 ii i ; lobes 47, 50; nerves, frog 47 
 Oral groove 74 
 Orbit 2, 52 
 Order in classification 128 
 
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 Organ, definition of 8 
 
 Origin of a muscle 56 
 
 Ossicles 114 
 
 Ostia of heart: grasshopper 122; 
 
 lobster 113 
 Ostium of oviduct 41 
 Ova: definition of 20; of fly 21; 
 
 of frog 10, 32; of sea-urchin 26; 
 
 of starfish 65; structure of 26 
 Ovaries: earthworm 101; frog 9, 10, 
 
 41; function of 20; grasshopper 
 
 122; Hydra 86; lobster 114 
 Oviducts: earthworm 101; frog n, 
 
 41; grasshopper 122; lobster 114; 
 
 male frog n, 40; ostium of 41 
 Ovipositor 120, 122 
 Oxidation, definition of 19, 23 
 
 Palps: grasshopper 118; Nereis 95 
 
 Pancreas 9, 39, 40 
 
 Pancreatic ducts 40 
 
 Paramecium 73-78; avoiding reaction 
 77; behavior 74, 76, 77; conjuga- 
 tion 78; digestive apparatus 75, 76; 
 experiments on 76, 77; fission 
 77-78; food ingestion 76, 77; 
 reaction to chemicals 77; repro- 
 duction 77-78; structure 74-76 
 
 Parapodium 95, 96, 105 
 
 Parenchyma 92 
 
 Pectoral girdle: bones of 6, 54; defini- 
 tion of 6; muscles of 58 
 
 Pelvic girdle: bones of 6, 54, SSI 
 definition of 6; muscles of 58, 
 50. 60 
 
 Penis 120, 122 
 
 Pepsin 17 
 
 Pereiopods 108, 109 
 
 Pericardial cavity 7; sac 7 
 
 Pericardium 7 
 
 Perisarc 87 
 
 Peristalsis, definition of 15 
 
 Peristomium 95, 96 
 
 Peritoneum: definition of 7; earth- 
 worm 98; frog 6, 7, 8, ii ; origin of, 
 in embryo 67; parietal 7, 98; 
 visceral 7, 98 
 
 Pharyngeal chamber 91, 92 
 
 Pharynx: earthworm 99; frog 39; 
 Nereis 95; Planaria 91, 92 
 
 Phyla, key to 129, 131 
 
 Phylum, definition of 72, 128 
 
 Physiology: definition of 72; of 
 circulatory system 20; of digestive 
 system 16-18; of frog 14-23; 
 of excretory system 19; of muscular 
 system 15-16; of nervous system 
 14, 15, 49-50; of reproductive 
 system 20-23; of respiratory sys- 
 tem 18, 19; of skin 19; summary 23 
 
 Pia mater 38, 46 
 
 Pigment cells: liver 33; skin 16, 36, 
 20; granules: liver 33; PlananaQo 
 
 Pill bugs 125 
 
 Pineal body 3, 47 
 
 Pithing, method of i 
 
 Planaria: behavior 90; cross-section 
 p2; digestive system 91; food 
 ingestion 92, 93; histology 92; 
 regeneration 93; sense organs 90, 
 91 ; structure 90-92 
 
 Plasma, definition of 20, 30 
 
 Plasmosome 26 
 
 Platyhelminthes: in key 130, 132; 
 in text 80, 90-94 
 
 Podical plates 1 20 
 
 Polychaetes in key 132; in text 105 
 
 Polymorphism 87-88 
 
 Polyp 87 
 
 Pond snail 135-138. See under Snail 
 
 Porifera in key 129 
 
 Portal system: definition of 43; 
 hepatic portal 43; renal portal 43 
 
 Prehallux 3 
 
 Proboscis, Planaria 91 
 
 Pronotum 118, 119 
 
 Prophase 63 
 
 Prostomium 95, 96 
 
 Protease: action of 17; definition of 
 17: experiment with 17 
 
 Proteins: definition of 16; digestion 
 
 of 17 
 
 Prothorax 118, 119 
 Protoplasm, definition of 24 
 Protopod, definition of 117 
 Protozoa: ciliate 79; flagellate 80; 
 
 definition of 72; m key 129, 131; 
 
 in text 71-80 
 Pseudopodia 72 
 Pseudothyroid 12 
 Ptyalin 18 
 Pulmonary artery 44; sac, snail 137; 
 
 vein 43 
 Pulse 20 
 Pupae, flies 22 
 Pupil 12 
 Pyloric chamber 114; division, 
 
 stomach 39 
 Pylorus 39 
 
 Radula 136, 137 
 
 Ramus communicans 12, 49 
 
 Reaction, definition of 14 
 
 Reaction time: definition of 14; 
 of involuntary muscle 15; of nerve 
 14, 15; of voluntary muscle 15 
 
 Reactions of animals. See Behavior 
 
 Recessive character 69 
 
 Rectum: frog 40; grasshopper 123; 
 lobster 114 
 
 Reflex: definition of 14, 50; in frog 
 14, 15, 50; wiping 14, 15 
 
 Regeneration, Planaria 93 
 
 Renal portal system 43 
 
 Reproduction, method of: earth- 
 worm 96; flies 20-23; grasshopper 
 1 20, 122, 123; Hydra 86; Parame- 
 cium 77, 78; snail 138 
 
 Reproductive cells 32; systems: 
 earthworm 100-101, frog, general 
 10, frog, special 40, 41, function of 
 20-23, grasshopper 120, 122-23, 
 Hydra 86, lobster 113, 114 
 
 Respiration: definition of 18; external 
 18; frog 19; function of 18, 19, 23; 
 insect larvae 21 ; internal 19; mus- 
 cles of 58, 59; grasshopper 121; 
 snail 137; through skin of frog 19 
 
 Respiratory function of the skin 19; 
 movements of frog 18, 19; sac 137; 
 system: fly larvae 21; fly pupae 22, 
 frog, general 9, frog, special 41, 
 function of 18,19, grasshopper 121, 
 insects 22, 121, lobster no, in 
 
 Response, definition of 14 
 
 Resting cell 62 
 
 Retroperitoneal, definition of 11 
 
 Rhabdites 90, 92 
 
 Ribs 6 
 
 Root cap plants 64 
 
 Root tips, mitosis in 64 
 
 Roots of spinal nerves 47, 49 
 
 Rostrum 106 
 
 Rotifers: in key 130; in text 80 
 
 Roundworms: in key 130; in text 80 
 
 Rugae, stomach 35, 39 
 
 Sacral vertebra 52 
 
 Sagittal axis 2; plane a, 61 
 
 Saliva, action of 18 
 
 Sarcolemma 28 
 
 Sarcostyles 29 
 
 Sciatic nerve 15; plexus 48 
 
 Sclerite 117 
 
 Scorpions 125 
 
 Sea fans 89; feathers 89 
 
 Segmentation: cavity 65; earthworm, 
 coelome 97, 98; earthworm, body 
 96; of the egg 65-66; embryo 68; 
 fly 21-22; frog, adult 61; frog, 
 tadpole 68; general discussion of 
 61, 68, 71; grasshopper 117; 
 insects 21, 22, 117; Nereis 95, 96; 
 lobster 106, 116; tadpole 68 
 
 Segments: definition of 21, 61, 68; 
 embryo 68; earthworm 96; fly 
 21-22; frog 61; grasshopper 
 117-20, 124; insects 22-22; lobster 
 106, 107-110, 112. 116: Nereis 
 o* 06: tadpole 68 
 
 Seminal funnel 101; receptacles 98, 
 100, 101; vestcles 98, 100, 101 
 
 Sense centers, brain 49, 50 
 
 Sense organs: earthworm 96; frog 
 12; grasshopper 117, 118, 124; 
 lobster in, 107, 108; Nereis 95; 
 Planaria go, 91 
 
 Septa 98 
 
 Serosa: definition of 7; of intestine 
 34, 35 
 
 Setae: earthworm 97, 102, 103; 
 Nereis 96 
 
 Shank 3; bones of 55; muscles of 
 60, 6 1 
 
 Shell, snail 136, 138 
 
 Shrimps 125 
 
 Sinus, blood: grasshopper 120, 121. 
 122; lobster 112, 113; pericardia! 
 ^112; sternal 113, 115 
 
 Sinus venosus 9, 45 
 
 Siphonophora: in key 132; in text 88 
 
 Skeleton: breastbone 54; definition 
 of 5, 51; endophragmal 115; endo- 
 skeleton, definition of 51; exoskele- 
 ton, definition of 51; frog, general 
 5, 6; frog, special 51-55; grass- 
 hopper 117, 123; hyoid apparatus 
 S3, 541 jaws, frog 52, 53; limbs, 
 frg 55; lobster 106, 115; origin of 
 51, 67; pectoral girdle, frog 54; 
 pelvic girdle 54, 55; skull 51, 52-53; 
 sternum 54; vertebra, parts of 
 51, 52; vertebral column 51, 52; 
 visceral skeleton 52-54 
 
 Skin: external features of 3; histology 
 of 36-37; glands of 36-37; in 
 respiration 19; in skeleton 51 
 
 Skull: bones of 51-53; definition of 6; 
 formation of 52 
 
 Small intestine 9, 39; histology of 
 26, 33-35 
 
 Snail: 135-38; behavior 135-36, 
 food ingestion 136-7; radula 
 136-37; reaction to drying 137; 
 reaction to lack of oxygen 137; 
 reaction to light 137-38; reproduc- 
 tion 138; respiration 137; shell 
 136-38; structure 135-36 
 
 Somite 95 
 
 Sow bugs 125 
 
 Species, definition of 127 
 
 Specific name, definition of 127 
 
 Spermatozoa: definition of 20; earth- 
 worm 101; frog 32; structure of 32 
 
 Spiders 125 
 
 Spinal cord, frog: cells of 31, 38; 
 function of 14, 15, 49; gross struc- 
 ture 12, 47, 48, 49; histology of 38 
 
 Spinal nerves: frog 12, 47, 48, 49; 
 roots of 49 
 
 Spindle 63 
 
 Spiracles: fly 21-22; grasshopper 
 119, 120, 121 
 
 Spireme 63 
 
 Spleen 10, 11 
 
 Starch test 18 
 
 Starfish, development of 65-66 
 
 Statocyst in 
 
 Stenlor 79 
 
 Sternum: frog 6, 54; lobster 107; 
 grasshopper 117, 119, 120 
 
 Stigma 119. 120, 121 
 
 Stinging cells 82, 84 
 
 Stomach: frog 9, 39; glands of 35; 
 grasshopper 123; histology of 35, 
 36; lobster in, 114 
 
 Styles 1 20 
 
 Sub-esophageal ganglion: earthworm 
 102; grasshopper 123; lobster 115 
 
 Sugar test 1 8 
 
 Sulcus marginalis 4 
 
 Supra-esophageal ganglion: earth- 
 worm 102; grasshopper 124; lobster 
 "5 
 
 Suture 117 
 
 Swimmerets 108 
 
 Syncytium, definition of 29 
 
 Systemic arch 44, 45 
 
 Systems: comparison of 126; of 
 frog 8 
 
INDEX 
 
 I 49 
 
 Fail fan, lobster 108 
 
 Tapeworms: in key 132; in text 94 
 
 Taxonomy, definition of 127 
 
 Teeth: frog 4; lobster 114 
 
 Telophase 63 
 
 Telson 107 
 
 Temperature, effect of, on activity 15 
 
 Tendon 56; of Achilles 56 
 
 Tentacles: Hydra 82, 83, 84; Nereis 
 
 95; snail 136 
 Tergum 107, 117 
 Testes: earthworm 101; frog n, 40; 
 
 function of 20; grasshopper 122; 
 
 Hydra 86; lobster 114 
 Thalamencephalon 47 
 Thigh, 3; bones of 55; muscles of 
 
 59, 6p 
 Thoracic appendages: grasshopper 
 
 119; lobster 108, 109 
 Thorax: grasshopper 117, 118, xig; 
 
 lobster 107, no, in 
 Thyroid gland 12 
 Tissue, definition of 26 
 Tissues: connective 20-30; epithelial 
 
 27, 28; frog 26-33; muscular 28; 
 
 nervous 31 
 
 Tongue 4; muscles of 58, 59 
 Tract, definition of 8 
 Tracts of frog 8 . 
 
 Tracheae. See Tracheal tubes 
 Tracheal tubes: fly larvae 21, 22; 
 
 grasshopper 119, laz 
 
 Transverse processes 6, 51 
 Trematodes: in key 132; in text 93 
 Trichocysts 75, 77 
 Triploblastic 71, 92 
 Trochelminthes: in key 130; in 
 
 text 80 
 
 Truncus arteriosus 44, 46 
 Trunk, muscles of 57 
 Turbellaria: in key 132; in text 93 
 Tympanic membrane 2; ring 57 
 Typhlosole 100, 103 
 
 Undulating membrane 76 
 
 Uniramous appendage 108 
 
 Unit character 70 
 
 Ureter n, 40 
 
 Urinary bladder, frog 8, 9, 40, 41, 10; 
 
 ligaments of 8, 10 
 Urinogenital system, frog: definition 
 
 of n; general 10, n; special 40, 41 
 Uropods 108 
 Urostyle 6, 51 
 Uterus 41 
 
 Vacuoles: contractile 72, 73, 76; 
 
 food 73. 76, 77 
 Variety, definition of 127 
 Vasa efferentia 40 
 Vas deferens: earthworm 101; 
 
 hopper 122; lobster 114 
 Vegetative hemisphere 66 
 Vein, definition of 9, 20 
 
 Veins: of frog 5, 6, 42-43, abdominal 
 6, 43. 8, hepatic portal 43, 
 musculo-cutaneous 5, 42, pul- 
 monary 43, postcaval 42, precaval 
 42, renal portal 43, systemic 42; 
 of wings 1 19 
 
 Venous system, frog 42-43 
 
 Ventricle of heart 9, 45, 46 
 
 Ventricles of brain 46, 47, 48 
 
 Vertebra, structure of 51 
 
 Vertebral column 6, 51, 52 
 
 Vertebrata in key 131, 133, 134 
 
 Vertebrates, definition of 72 
 
 Vertex 117 
 
 Viscera, definition of 5 
 
 Visceral skeleton 52, 53, 54 
 
 Vocal cords 41; sacs 
 
 Vomerine teeth 4 
 
 Vorticella 79 
 
 Water bears 81; fleas 81; mites 8 1 
 Whitefish eggs, mitosis in 64 
 White matter of cord 31, 38 
 Wings no 
 Wolffian duct, xx 
 
 Yolk 66 
 
 Yolk plug 66, 67 
 
 Zooids 87-89 
 Zygapophyses 51 
 
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