There she clutches at illusions, and she seeks the phantom goal With the unattaining passion that consumes the unsleeping soul: And calamity enfolds her, like the shadow of a ban, And the niggardness of Nature makes the misery of man;

The medial part of the ventral lamina forms the most rostral pole of the oliva, the dorsal lamina the most caudal one.

How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

1897, Henry Guernsey Hubbard, The ambrosia beetles of the United States: