TUENEE ON THE OEBITAL AND KEKATOCETCOID MUSCLES. Ill 



about the nose and mouth, said by Bernard to be produced by 

 section of the sympathetic, if they do take place, are owing to the 

 presence of unstriped cutaneous muscles. 



Miiller next inquires into the existence of unstriped muscles in 

 the skin of the ear. He has occasionally found, on galvanizing the 

 cervical sympathetic in cats, that a movement of the hairs growing 

 upon the skin at the entrance of the concha, has taken place. 

 Tliis experiment has, how^ever, frequently failed both in cats and 

 other animals. A careful examination of the skin of the part did 

 not giA'e any indications of unstriped muscles, but very distinct 

 muscles were seen connected to the hair follicles. He considers 

 these experiments of interest, as they appear to indicate whence 

 the muscles of the hair follicles receive their nerves. Owing to 

 the movement of the hairs being limited to a very small locality, 

 during the irritation of the sympathetic, one must suppose that 

 only a very small part of the unstriped muscular apparatus of the 

 skin of the cat can be regulated by the cervical sympathetic. 



XII. — Note sue l'E]S"cepe:ale de e'Ceakg-outakg, par J. L. C. 

 Schroeder van der Kolk et W. Yrolik.* 



[By the kindness of the distingnished authors of tliis essay, we are enabled to lay 

 it before the readers of the present number of the Natural History Review ; 

 wherein it fitly takes its jjlace, as an important link in the chain of evidence by 

 which the baselessness of the three assertions, that the " posterior lobe," the 

 " posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle," and the "hippocampus minor," are 

 structures " peculiar to " or " characteristic of" the human brain, has been placed 

 beyond the possibility of cavil. The statements in the paper to which MM. 

 Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik refer in theu' opening sentence, were sub- 

 stantially refuted in the essay " On the Zoological Relations of Man to the Lower 

 Animals," published in the number of this Review for Jamian', 1861 ; and v/ere 

 so obviousl}', either irrelevant or incompatible with fact, that we deemed them 

 undeserving of further criticism. But, for MM. Schroeder van der Kolk and 

 "Vrolik, this singular brochure had an importance, which its scientific contents 

 could not confer upon it. For though these eminent anatomists declare them- 

 selves decided opponents of all forms of the doctrine of progressive development, 

 they are above all, lovers of truth ; and therefore, at whatever risk of seeming to 

 lend support to views which they dislike, when, in that paper and elsewhere, 

 they found their facts denied, their words misquoted, and their very figures mis- 

 interpreted, they felt it their duty to take the first opportunity of pubhcly repu- 

 diating the abuse of their authoritj^, iu a formal note addressed to the learned 

 Academy of which they are members. 3ijf^i>> 



As none of our readers, who are interested in the question, are likely to be unacquainted 

 with French, we content ourselves with accurately reproducing the text and its 

 accompanying plate ; a course, which in such a case as this, has its obvious 

 recommendations. — T. H. H.] 



Monsieur Eichard Owenf vient de publier un memoire sur les 

 caracteres anatomiques du cerveau de I'homme et des singes. Pre- 



* Extrait des comptes rendus de 1' Academic Roj'ale des Sciences, Sectiou Sciences 

 Exactes, Vol. XIII. Amsterdam. 



t R. Owen. On the Cerebral characters of Man and the Ape in Annals and 

 ilagaziiie of Natural History, 3d Series, Vol. VII. No. 42, July 1861, p. 456. 



