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Eskimo chief named "Kishn."' The three brains here described belong 

 to Ki.shu's tribe. A preliminary report has been presented by Prof. G. 

 S. Huntington to this Association in May, 1897, on the two Papuan (?) 

 brains. ' 



DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAIN OF A EEGENTICIDE. By Edward A. 

 Spitzka. 



Illustrated by drawings made from nature of the brain of Leon F. 

 Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, also by photographs of a 

 plaster cast of the entire head, and by outline drawings of the skull. 



E. A. Spitzka, who performed the autopsy upon assassin Leon F. Czol- 

 gosz, was fortunate enough to be able to make a plaster cast of the entire 

 head, as well as drawings of the outer features of the brain and skull. 

 A full description of the cerebral fissures and convolutions was recorded 

 stenographically. The autopsy revealed no evidence whatever of dis- 

 ease or deformity of any of the bodily organs, including the brain, which 

 was normal in size, shape, weight, and appearance. The assassin was in 

 excellent health at the time of his death, and the post-mortem findings 

 corroborate positively the opinion formed by all the alienists who ex- 

 amined the prisoner, that he was entirely free from mental disease and 

 fully responsible for his deed. The reader will find the full report, 

 with the anthropometric measurements and illustrations of the cast, 

 brain and skull in the leading medical journals published January 4, 

 1902. 



AN ILLUSTEATION OF THE VALUE OF THE FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM 

 OF NEUEONES AS A MOEPHOLOGICAL UNIT IN THE NEEVOUS 

 SYSTEM. By C, Judson Herkick. 



The peripheral gustatory system of neurones was briefly reviewed 

 in the vertebrate series. The fibers have probably been derived from 

 unspecialized visceral sensory fibers, the fibers of both the unspecial- 

 ized visceral and the specialized gustatory varieties comprising the 

 communis system of the cranial nerves as known to comparative anatomy. 

 This system (both kinds of fibers) is typically represented in the X, 

 IX and VII jjairs of cranial nerves, but it is subject to very remarkable 

 variations depending on the number and distribution of the tastebuds. 

 Some of these variations were passed in review and emphasis laid on 

 the permanence of the morphological plan of the communis system 

 throughout the series. The phylogenetic history of the facial nerve was 

 briefly sketched from the same point of view. 



