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The Cranial Nerve Components of Teleosts. 
By C. Jupson HERRIcK. 
The confusion which prevails concerning the morphology of the 
cranial nerves of fishes may probably be referred to two main causes: 
1) the great structural diversity among the various species, 2) the 
still greater diversity in nomenclature employed by different anatomists. 
The first cause for confusion can be overcome only by much careful 
comparative work; but some of the recent comparative studies are so 
superficial that they contribute little in aid of the first difficulty and 
leave the second in worse state than before. Feeling that the prime 
requisite is a thorough knowledge of a few typical forms in the light 
of modern ideas of nerve components and their homologies, the writer 
has undertaken a careful microscopical study of the entire courses of 
the cranial nerves of certain American Teleosts. As it will be some 
time before the full descriptions and plates can be ready for publi- 
cation and as the results thus far obtained differ in several funda- 
mental features from some of the most recently published researches 
on the Teleosts, it seems best at this time to give a brief summary 
of the results. 
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