THE CEREBELLUM. 



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sensory fibers which end in the granular layer. In mammals 

 somatic sensory root fibers are still received from the spinal 

 nerves by way of the dorsal funiculi and the corpus restiforme, 

 from the vestibular nerve and from the trigeminus, but the number 



Fig. 122. — Ending of a net-like fiber in the cerebellum of man. After Cajal. 



of such fibers is very small in comparison with the number of fibers 

 coming to the cerebellum from other brain centers. In spite 

 of this great change in the character of the incoming fibers the 

 mode of receiving impulses in the cerebellum has remained essen- 



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