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fibrillae, when degenerate, lose their power of taking up the stain. 

 In methylene blue preparations it is therefore easy to distinguish 

 between normal and degfenerate nervous structures. 



Fig. S. Photograph showing operating frame, the method of tying the 

 frog and the point at which the rout of the palatine nerve was exposed. About 

 }4 nat. size. 



The palatine branch of the seventh nerve passes, as we 

 have already seen, to the roof of the mouth directly anterior to 

 the lateral process of the basisphenoid bone (Fig. i, page 96). 

 Lateral to the eyeball it is connected with the maxillary branch 

 of the fifth cranial nerve by the Ramus communicans, although, 

 as far as I have been able to discover, no fibres from the trige- 

 mus innervate the palate. To make sure however, that the 



