Can you oblige me by inserting two or three lines in the next number of the Jenaische Zeitschrift, to correct a statement by Mr Jhering.
Thus
„I have read with much interest the article on the development of Helix, in the last number of this journal. I wish to correct a misapprehension which is likely to arise from the author’s reference to my observations on Pisidium. || The organ which I have described as ,shell-gland’ in that Lamellibranch (Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society 1875.) is not the byssus-gland of Leydig and other writers, and I have distinctly pointed out that its position and time of development are altogether different from that of the byssus-gland, with which the paper of Leydig on Cyclas has made all naturalists familiar. It seems to me necessary at once to correct this false statement. The other differences between myself and the writer of the article on Helix, will be decided by other observers.
E. Ray Lankester,
Oxford, October 1875. ||
I am much interested in your article on Gastrulae. – it is tantalizing to have only the first few pages of it. The History of Creation is at last published. I shall be glad to hear how you like it – in its English dress.
