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ment as the Purkinje cells (Fig. 68). The difference lies chiefly 

 in the form and position of the dendrites. A part of the dendrites 

 ramify in the granular layer and a part in the molecular layer. 

 Those which lie in the granular layer are like those of the first 

 class of cells, but any dendrites which enter the molecular layer 



Fig. 68. — A section through the same region as in Fig. 67, to show cell forms 

 intermediate between acusticum and Purkinje cells. 



take on the characters of Purkinje cell dendrites. In these inter- 

 mediate forms every gradation is found between the acusticum 

 and Purkinje cells. The number of the acusticum and inter- 

 mediate cells is much greater in the acusticum, that of the Purkinje 

 cells much greater in the cerebellum. 



