In Pleurobrachia there is at first only one otolith at each corner.
These sacks have curved auditory hairs supporting an otolith at their extremity.
The otolith however is developed from a single cell on the dorsal and right side of the brain.
The dorsal half of the otolith is pigmented: the ventral half is without pigment.
The otolith is an oval body with its dorsal half pigmented, and its ventral half clear and highly refractive.
According to Hensen, certain Crustacea on sloughing spontaneously introduce fine grains of sand as auditive stones into their otolith vesicle.
The otolith apparatus of the cat can render it no service in free descent.
As we ascend the scale, 1, 2, 3 semi-circular canals gradually develop from them, whilst the structure of the otolithorgan itself becomes more complicated.
There are tentacles and otolith vesicles as very delicate organs of feeling, or possibly of hearing also.
But the plan or fundamental scheme of these eyes is correct and capable of indefinitely greater development than the organs of touch or smell, perhaps greater even than the otolith vesicle.
In a very few turbellaria we find otolith vesicles.
The otolith organs in the vestibule are probably excited, not by rotary movements, but by sudden startings and stoppings of rectilinear motion, as in an elevator; and also by the pull of gravity when the head is held in any position.
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