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as that could be done without the addition of numerous cuts 

 and prolonged explanations, which the limits of the work would 

 not permit. 



Inasmuch as it would be impossible to give even an incom- 

 plete list of the authors who have written on this subject, 

 the writer has almost wholly ignored names. Only in the first 

 chapter has he tried to mention those who began the structure 

 at which we are still laboring. 



The author, in common with all those who have actually 

 worked in this difficult field, well knows that very few facts 



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are indisputably settled, and that no region of anatomy is more 

 subject to change than the one under consideration. He, 

 therefore, himself calls attention to the fact that possibly here 

 and there a line or point may be laid down a little too confi- 

 dently. This, however, has nowhere been done in the interests 

 of didactic clearness alone. 



THE AUTHOR. 



FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, May, 1885. 



FOOT-NOTE TO AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL PREFACE. 



The student who may be anxious to keep himself posted on the 

 advances made in the stud}' of cerebral anatom}' will do. well to consult 

 Dr. Edinger's annual reviews of the current literature of the subject in 

 Schmidt's Jahrbucher. These reviews have been published regularly 



since 1886. 



THE EDITOR. 



