58 The Dancing Mouse 



variable, as well as unusual in form, and the sacs distorted. 

 In the ears of some specimens there were only two canals, and 

 in all cases they were more or less reduced in size, distorted, or 

 grown together. 



The work of Rawitz was unfavorably criticised by Alex- 

 ander and Kreidl (2), Kishi (21), and Baginsky (4), as well 



FIGURE 1 1 . Photograph of a wax model of the membranous 

 labyrinth of the ear of the dancer. Reproduced from Baginsky's 

 figure in the Centralblatt }ur Physiologic, Bd. 16. 



as by Panse (23 and 24). To their criticisms Rawitz replied by 

 insisting that the other investigators could not with right attack 

 his statements because they had not used the reconstruction 

 method. In order to test the value of this contention, and if pos- 

 sible settle the question of fact, Baginsky had a model of the ear 

 of the dancer constructed by a skilled preparator (Herr Spitz) 

 from sections which had been prepared by the best neurological 



