THE CRANIAL AND FIRST SPINAL NERVES 

 OF MENIDIA ; A CONTRIBUTION UPON THE 

 NERVE COMPONENTS OF THE BONY FISHES. 



BY C. JUDSON HERRICK, 



Associate in Comparative Neurology, Pathological Institute of the New York 



State Hospitals. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Section i. — Introductory 157 



I. — General Introduction 157 



II. — Introductory Sketch of the Theory of Nerve Com- 

 ponents 163 



III. — Scope and Methods 175 



Section 2. — The Lateral Line Canals and their 



Organs 181 



I. — The Lateral Lines 181 



I. — The Lateral Line of the Trunk 183 



2. — The Lines of the Head 184 



3. — The Extra-scapular Canal 185 



/. — The Post-occipital Main Canal 185 



u. — The Occipital Commissure 185 



4. — The Squamosal Canal 186 



5. — The Opercular Canal 186 



6. — The Mandibular Canal 187 



7. — The Infra orbital Canal 188 



8. — The Supra-orbital Canal 189 



II. — Accessory Lateral Line Organs igo 



III. — Comparative 193 



IV. — Summary of the Lateral Lines 199 



Section 3. — The Central Relations of the Cranial 



Components 200 



I. — The General Cutaneous System 200 



II. — The Acustico-lateral System 204 



Note.— This study was awarded the Cartwright Prize for iSgg by the Alumni 

 Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 

 New York. 



It is published simultaneously in the ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY AND 

 PsYCHOPATHOLOGY and the Journal of Comparative Neurology, pages 

 81 to ^ig and Plates I to VII of Vol. II of the Archives being severally identical 

 with pages 157 to 455 and Plates XIV to XX of Vol. IX of the Journal. 



