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n. Wissenschaftliche Mittheilungen. 



1. On the Spinal and Visceral Nerves of Cyclostomata. 



By w. B. Ransom, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and D'Arcy W. Thomp- 

 son, Professor in University College, Dundee. 



eingeg. 2. Mai 1886. 



The following preliminary note relates to work begun in the 

 spring of last year, but unfinished for lack of fresh material. Recent 

 supplies of Petromyzon ßuviaiilis and Myxine have enabled us to con- 

 tinue our previous work, and while reserving details and the discussion 

 of previous views, we publish this statement on account of the support 

 some of our facts lend to certain of On odi 's results, and the bearing 

 of others on Gask ell's researches on visceral nerves. 



Spinal cord: Petromyzon. The grey matter is not divided into 

 anterior and posterior cornua, nor does it show any trace of segmen- 

 tal arrangement. It presents medianly, a. large ovoid cells, the so- 

 called hind-cells, b. small multipolar cells; and laterally c. large mul- 

 tipolar cells ; and d. a small group of large multipolar cells, plaecd at 



