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other mammalian brains is generally known, and possibly 

 some other animal is preferable to the cat as a type for this 

 portion of the neur-axis. 



3. The abundance of material for study. 



3. The inexpensiveness of («) the body; {b) of suitable 

 preparation of the same, injection, etc.; (<:) of preservation 

 of the same. 



4. The ease of manipulation; the tissues are much firmer 

 than they are in a small human subject, fcEtus or infant. 



To these more apparent considerations may be added the 

 fact that already elaborate works on felitomy are accessible, 

 e.g.., Straus-Durckheim's monogram on the " Skeleton Liga- 

 ments and Muscles of the Cat" (" Anatomie du Chat," two 

 vols.), or the less expensive reduced copies with " Explana- 

 tions" by Prof. H. S. Williams; St. George Mivart's "The 

 Cat," although this work does not seem to be a reliable guide 

 to the study of American cats; the more scientific and exact 

 work of Wilder and Gage, entitled " Anatomical Technol- 

 ogy," and the numerous papers and addresses of the same 

 authors, a partial list of which is found in the work cited; 

 and the papers embodying some of the writer's studies in 

 comparative neurology.( ') 



PREPARATION. 



The cats were killed with chloroform and both arteries 

 and veins were injected with the starch injection mass. 

 When not in use the body was wrapped in a napkin saturated 

 with alcohol and then placed in a tight vessel; the tissues are 

 by this means preserved in excellent condition. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



The myel may be regarded anatomically as an elongated 

 mass of alba and cinerea, and functionally as an aggregation 



I "The Vagus Nerves in the Domestic Cat:" The Trigeminus, The Facial, The 

 G'.osso-pharyngeal, The Accessory, The Hypoglossal, The Soft Palate. The literature of 

 the subject was cited in a paper read before the American Philosophical Society, May 

 21, 1886. 



