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ment and form the basis of imagination, memory, thought and reasoning; and now 

 we see how tliis very combination of sight, hearing and muscular movement leads us 

 to recognize at once tlie importance of tlie relation of these powers to that great corti- 



FlG. 14. Views of right (upper figure) and left (lower figure) parietooccipito-teniporal regions in the brain of 

 Maj. J. W. Powell ; corresponding parts shaded. The squares mark off areas in centesimals of the cerebral length. Note 

 the preponderance of the right side over the left. 



cal area which we know to be concerned in their association. It is this region which 

 we observe to be remarkably expanded in the human brain as compared with that of 

 the anthropoids. There are evidences presented by the brains of highly intellectual 

 persons which show this region to be especially redundant, not only as compared with 



A. p. S.— XXI. AA. 12, 10, -07. 



