66 Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. 



Soi/u' Reacfions of J///r/u/o/>s/s Icidyi, by G. AV. Huxter. This 

 paper will be published in \\\\?, Journal. 



A Theory of the Histo^^enesis, Constitution and Physiological State of 

 Peripheral Ah^-ve, by Porter E. Sargent. To be printed shortly in 

 full in i\\\i^ Jou/iial. 



The Association of American Anatomists met in Philadel- 

 phia. There were five neurological papers, aside from the 

 memoir by Dr. Wilson which appears in our present issue. 



On the Origin ami Destination of Pliers of the Oecipito-tonporo- 

 pontine Bundle {Torek'' s Bundle, Meynert), by E. Lindon INIellus. 

 In a circuinscribed experimental lesion of the cortex of the 

 tem])oral lobe in the monkey, involving the first and second temporal 

 convolutions projection fibers degenerated, passing by Avay of the sub- 

 lenticular segment of the internal capsule to the pes pedunculi, where 

 they occupy the external fifth (occipito-temporo-Briickenbahn, 

 Flechsig ; sensory tract, Charcot and others). To reach the pes 

 these fibers break through the inferior })ortion of the lenticular nucleus 

 in small bundles, pass around the external geniculate body just above 

 the point of exit of the optic tract and enter the })es external to those 

 fibers which tbrm the |)()Sterior extremity of the internal capsule as it 

 passes between the thalamus and the lenticular nucleus. Instead of 

 turning downward toward the pons, like the capsular fibers, they pur- 

 sue a course obliquely backward and slightly downwaixl and, after a 

 very short course in the pes, disappear, apparently passing to the an- 

 terior quadrigeminal body. 



The Brains of Three Brothers, by Edw. Anthony Spitzka. 

 02:)portunities for demonstrating the influence of heredity in the con- 

 figuration of the human brain are exceedingly rare ; adult material 

 of this kind has only once before been described and l)y the same 

 writer before this Association three years ago in the case of the brains 

 of the two distinguished physicians Seguin, father and son. It may 

 be remembered that in tlie Segi'in brains there were found some no- 

 table resemblances which could l)e attributed to hereditary transmis- 

 sion. The writer again had the good fortune to test the question of 

 encephalic morphological transmission in the brains of three brothers 

 recently executed together in New York State. In the search for 

 positive evidences of hereditary resend)lance, only such })arts of the 

 cerebrum as are subject to great range of variation in different brains 

 could be depended upon to supi)ort the proposition ; it was found, in 

 fact, that peculiarities (jf anatomical configuration of this class, un- 

 common enouuh in the ireneral run of brains as thev come to the 



