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connection with the cerebellum, and Luciani concludes that the compen- 

 satory movements by means of which the animal,, whose cerebellum has 

 been removed, becomes capable of maintaining its equilibrium in the 

 erect posture, etc., depend on sensori-motor areas of the cerebrum. 



The elaborate review of this work at the hands of Seppilli, which 

 appears in the July number of the Alienist and Neurologist, may be recom- 

 mended with the reservation that the distinguished reviewer has been 

 unable to divest himself of a national pride and personal feeling for his 

 friend, which praiseworthy feelings have led him to do scant justice to 

 those whose views are extended and particularized by the elaborate work 

 cited. 



In striking contrast to this work is a paper by Tolet,l which is (al- 

 most unintelligibly) translated in the Alienist and Neurologist for April. 

 The curious mixture of false analogy and indiscriminating employment of 

 pathological data has a savor of antique chiromancy. The cerebellum 

 proves accordingly to be the seat of the affections. Specimens of the 

 translations run thus: "All mammals near the water have the cerebel- 

 lum well developed." "The author understands the protuberance in the 

 nervous system of the brains." " The cerebrum is the anterior portion 

 of the backbone having the motive faculties." This is worse than th« 

 translation of "Hirnrinde " by Dura mater, which occurs in Hoeffding's 

 psychology. The scholarly and careful editor is not often thus imposed 

 on and a recollection of sundry typographical errors in our own pages of 

 late predisposes to silence. 



A suggestive paper on Tumor of the Cerebellum in The Alienist and 

 Neurologist for April, 1892, suggests the possibility of successful opera- 

 tive interference in these distressing cases. 



The Development of the Brain of Fishes. 2 



The portion of this well-illustrated memoir which relates to the brain 

 is brief and chiefly devoted to the external characters and changes in 

 form. The anterior enlarged portion of the neurochord extends the 

 whole depth of the free-region of the embryo, forming a somewhat rhom- 

 boidal mass, rounded above, deeply carinate below. The growth of the 



1. Neurolog. Centralblatt, 1S91. 



2. McIntosh and Prince. On the Development and Life-hi.stories of the Teleos- 

 tean. Food and other Fishes. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburg, Vol. XXXV, Part III, No. 

 19, 1890. 



