122 PROFESSOR DAVID HEPBURN ON 



the anterior aspect of the germ from the surrounding convoluted surface, commenced 

 at the locus perforates anticus, which to a considerable extent encroached upon the 

 mesial aspect of the hemisphere and presented itself in front of the lamina terminalis 

 below the genu of the corpus callosum. Several shallow extensions of the callosal 

 sulcus, in relation to the anterior half of the corpus callosum, ran forwards and upwards 

 into the superincumbent convolution, thereby complicating the appearance of that gyrus. 



The sulcus cruciatus was visible upon this aspect of the frontal lobe, and here it 

 divided into several branches, of which the hindermost was the longest. 



There also appeared on this surface the fissure which I have accepted as the fissure, 

 of Rolando, and it extended from the superior margin of the hemisphere downwards 

 and backwards to a point almost half way to the dorsal surface of the corpus callosum. 



The calloso-marginal sulcus was much interrupted by the invasion of other fissures, 

 so that it was composed of not only the fissure on the dorsal aspect of the callosal 

 gyrus, but also of a branch from the cruciate sulcus anteriorly, and a branch from a 

 fissure situated posterior to the callosal gyrus (fig. 2). 



The mesial aspect of the occipital lobe was reduced to comparatively small dimen- 

 sions in comparison with the size of the hemisphere, a condition which resulted from 

 the fact that occipital structures, which in a human brain of corresponding magnitude 

 would have been visible on its mesial face, were in this seal's brain turned to the 

 inferior or cerebellar aspect of the occipital lobe. For this reason there was very 

 considerable difficulty in selecting a fissure which could be regarded as homologous 

 with the internal pcwrieto-occvpital sulcus. As the result of a later dissection, which 

 determined the position of the calcarine fissure, I concluded that the fissure which is 

 immediately posterior to the callosal gyrus, and whose course is upwards and forwards 

 towards the supero-mesial border of the hemisphere (fig. 2), should be regarded as the 

 internal parieto-occipital sulcus. Apparently this is the splenial fissure of some authors. 



The callosal gyrus started by rising gradually from the locus perforatus anticus 

 immediately below the genu of the corpus callosum. It ran forwards, and growing 

 larger as it proceeded it wound round the anterior end of the genu, forming several 

 well-marked folds situated between the callosal and cruciate sulci. Thereafter it passed 

 backwards in a straighter or less elaborate form above the posterior two-thirds of the 

 corpus callosum and between the callosal and calloso-marginal sulci. Posterior to the 

 splenium it turned abruptly towards the basal aspect of the hemisphere, constituting 

 what is known in human anatomy as the isthmus of the limbic lobe. Subsequently 

 (fig. 3) it curved along the infero-lateral aspect as the hippocampal gyrus, which 

 steadily expanded as it proceeded forwards to terminate in a wide flattened extremity 

 situated close behind the locus perforatus anticus, but separated from it by the basal 

 segment of the Sylvian fissure. In a later stage of the dissection the uncus was found 

 in connection with the hippocampal gyrus. 



So far, therefore, as the essential elements which enter into its formation are 

 concerned, the limbic lobe in all its parts was fully represented ; and only at its frontal 



(BOY. SOC. EDIN. TEAKS., VOL. XLVIII., 834.) 



