ABSTRACT
In continuation of the research of the organ of Jacobson in mammals, that of the guinea-pig having been described in the January and April numbers, 1881, of this Journal, I now propose to give the results of the minute examination of this organ in the rabbit. The differences in the microscopic anatomy of Jacobson’s organ in these two rodents are very great indeed, much greater than could be anticipated. That of the rabbit in many respects comes very close to the ideal type which Gratiolet 1 draws and describes, and is also similar to the organ in the sheep as described by Balogh 2. The points of resemblance between that of the rabbit and the sheep and the points of dissemblance between that of the rabbit and the guinea-pig will be fully discussed below.
‘Recherches sur l’organe de Jacobson,’ Paris, 1845, p. 19, and passim.
‘Das Jacobson’sohe Organ des Schafes, Sitzungsb. d.K. Akad. d. Wiss., ’ xlii, p. 449.
‘Stricker’s Manual of Histology,’ article “Bronchi and Lung.”
My friend Dr. Reuben Harvey, of Dublin, informs mo that found the same eonditiou also in the rat and cat.
‘Beitr. zur Anatom, d. Nase und Mundhohle,’ Berlin, 1878.
See Gratiolet and Balogh on the general distribution of the olfactory nerve branch.
‘Eingeweidelehre,’ ii, p. 713.
