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Cabibbe, G. Histologische Untersuchungen iiber die Nervenedigungen in den Sehnen und im Peri- 

 mysium der Ratte und des Meerschweinchens. Monatss. jiir Psychiatric u. Neuorologie, Vol. 

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Pacinian corpuscles are found in very intimate relation with the Golgi cor- 

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Bernheimer. Ueber Ursprung und Verlauf des Nervus oculomotorius im Mittelhirn. Monatss. fur 

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A reply to criticism by Majano upon certain of the author's experiments. 



G. E. c. 



Brans, Hermann. Experimentelle Beitrage zur Frage nach der Entwickelung peripherer Nerven. 

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Transplanted fundaments of limbs have the power of developing nerves in 

 situ. This power is ascribed to the presence of "Etwas" which must antedate 

 the axone process of His and the cells of Schwann, and which probably corre- 

 spond to the embryonic intercellular bridges of Kerr in Lepidosiren. The neuro- 

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 are essentially opposed to Harrison's recent and convincing presentation of the 

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Kolmer, Walther. Ueber das Verhalten der Neurofibrillen an der Peripherie. Anat. Anz., Vol. 

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Perinuclear nets of neurofibrils are found in the sense-cells of certain worms, 

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Dogiel, A. S. Der fibrillare Bau der Nervenendapparate in der Haut des Menschenund der Sauge- 

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The various types of cutaneous sensory endings are found to consist of a peri- 

 fibrillar net embedded in a perifibrillar substance. There are two categories of 

 nerve cells: (i ) Typical neurones, which are anatomically distinct from all others; 

 (2) neurones in colonies, the members of which anastomose by their dendrites and 

 are identical in their development, structure and function. Neurofibrillae are 

 differentiated elements of the protoplasm and are not found outside the nerve 

 cell. The fibrillae of the first category of cells do not pass beyond the boundaries 

 of a single cell, but among the cells of the second type they pass from one cell to 

 another through the anastomosing dendrites. But this occurs only within the 

 neurone colony, the members of which are a unit in function. Hence, the author 

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Wallenberg, Adolf. Sekundare Bahnen aus dem frontalen sensibeln Trigeminuskerne des Kanin- 

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There is a dorsal tract of large fibers which connects with both motor nuclei 

 of the trigeminus, both midbrain trigeminal nuclei, both nuclei of the oculomotorius 

 and the nuclei of the formatio reticularis. There is also found a ventral tract of 

 very small fibers which enters the opposite medial lemniscus and ends in the ven- 

 tral nuclei of the thalamus. G. E. c. 



