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hemispheres. Thus the striate body in the putamen and the 

 caudate body form an end-station [ein Ursprungsgebiet), and the 

 whole ganglion can not be regarded as an intermediate station 

 or internodium. It must serve some higher purpose. It must 

 be an organ of some independent mechanism attached to and 

 co-operating with the cerebral activity of the brain. 



Ontogenetically considered the striate body is a part of the 

 hemispheres developed by differentiation of the same gray mat- 



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Fig. 4. (After Edinger). 



ter which in a very early condition, as shows Dr. Edinger's dia- 

 gram of the striped body in a foetus of two months (Fig. 4), is 

 continuous with the hemispheres and thus unequivocally belongs 

 to them.* It is natural that under these conditions its connect- 



*See also Dr. Edinger's sections of the brains of the fishes, reptiles and 

 birds where the striate body appears as a mere nodus in the hemispheric region. 



