. Elementary text-book of zoology, general part and special part: protozoa to insecta. Animals. 86 OEGANrZATION AXD DEVELOPMENT OF ATTIMALS IX GENERAL. of perfection. In the simplest cases they are known as eye-sjmts, and consist of irritable protoplasm, , nervous siibstance, containing pig- ment grannies; and in this form they are perhaps scarcely capable of distinguishing light from darkness, but are only susceptible to the warm rays. It is hardly possible to conceive that pigment is indis- pensable for the sensation of light, because there are many eyes of complicated structure from whi
. Elementary text-book of zoology, general part and special part: protozoa to insecta. Animals. 86 OEGANrZATION AXD DEVELOPMENT OF ATTIMALS IX GENERAL. of perfection. In the simplest cases they are known as eye-sjmts, and consist of irritable protoplasm, , nervous siibstance, containing pig- ment grannies; and in this form they are perhaps scarcely capable of distinguishing light from darkness, but are only susceptible to the warm rays. It is hardly possible to conceive that pigment is indis- pensable for the sensation of light, because there are many eyes of complicated structure from which pigment may be altogether absent. The view, however, according to which the pigment itself is sensitive to lic'ht, , is chemically changed by the light waves and transmits the excitation produced by these movements to the protoplasm or. Fig. 83—Auditory vesicle of a Heteropod (Pterotracliea). K, acoustic nerve; Of, otolith the fluid of the vesicle ; Wz, ciliated cells on the inner wall of the vesicle ; IIz, auditory cells ; Cz, central cell. the adjacent nervous substance cannot in itself be contradicted, but it is by no means clear that such changes are produced by the light rays as opposed to the heat rays. Of greater impoiiance in this relation appears the special nature of the nerve endings, through which certain movements, progressing in i-egular waves, the so-called ether waves, are transmitted to the nerve fibres and give rise to a stimulus which travels to the central organ and is by it perceived as light. In all oases in which in the lower animals specific nerve endings cannot be made out, we have probably only to do with a forerui ner of the eye, consisting merely of the pigmented termina-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Claus, Carl, 1835-1899; Metcalf Collection (North Ca
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