98' ANATOMY 



These determinations by Agduhr show an increase in the 

 number of fibers in the spinal nerves with advancing age, and 

 he believes that this indicates a progressive increase in the 

 number of neurons. His conclusions are opposed to those 

 drawn from our own earlier studies and those made at The In- 

 stitute in which it was found that the number of neurons was 



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Diameters of the cells and their nuclei in the ganglion vestibulare in radial vertical 



section (chart 12) 



fixed at an early stage of development. Further investigation 

 is needed to warrant a choice between these two views. 



One of the larger spinal ganglia from a cervical nerve root 

 of an Albino weighing 140 grams was fixed in a formalin-acetic 

 sublimate mixture (6, loc. cit., p. 3) by Hatai ( ; 01) and cut in 

 paraffin sections 6-7/x thick. 



