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Literary Notices. 
Nervous System of Myxine.' 
Dr. Holm used a variety of staining methods upon strictly fresh 
material and is therefore in a position to add many details of import- 
ance to our knowledge of this critical form. His most serviceable 
preparations are those stained by the method of Gote1 and by the 
iron-haematoxyglin of HaIpENHAIN. The histology of the entire brain 
is considered; but the results, it must be confessed, are disappointing. 
While the paper contains much of value and is carefully wrought out 
and clearly arranged, yet the author has apparently failed to make 
the most of his material. The discussion of the medulla oblongata, 
comprising about half of the paper, is especially weak, due largely, it 
would seem, to the neglect of important recent literature, especially 
that coming from England and America. oA Ab 
Taste and the Fifth Nerve.? 
The study of five consecutive cases of total removal of the Gas- 
serian ganglion by Krause’s operation shows that several weeks after 
the operation there is a total loss of taste on both the tip and the back 
of the tongue on the operated side. The author concludes that all the 
fibers of taste reach the brain by the root of the fifth nerve and that 
none of these fibers reach the brain by either the seventh or the ninth 
roots. roy Ines 
The Phylogeny of the Pallium.’® 
This volume, for which we are indebted to the kindness of Pro- 
fessor G. Eliot Smith, contains descriptions of the nervous system of 
the Invertebrata and of the brain and spinal cord of the Vertebrata of 
the collections of the Royal College of Surgeons. The Invertebrata, 
spinal cords of Vertebrata and brains of Fishes, Amphibia and Birds are 
described by Mr. R. H. Burne; the brains of the Reptilia and Mam- 
malia by Professor G. Elliot Smith, assisted in the Primates by Mr. 
W. L. H. Duckworth. 
1 HoLM, JOHN F. The Finer Anatomy of the Nervous System of Myxine 
glutinosa. Gegenbaur’s Morph. Jahrb., XXIX, 3, 1901, pp. 365-401. 
2 Gowers, W. R. Taste and the Fifth Nerve. Journ. of Physiol. XXVIII, 
4, July, 1902. 
8 Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of 
Comparative Anatomy contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Sur- 
geons of England. Second Edition. Vol. II. Zondow: Taylor and Francis, 
1902, pp. x, 518. 
