Literary Notices. Hx 



complicated forming a variously modified paraphysis (post-paraphysis, 

 Herrick) while a paraphysis may also be developed in front of the 

 velum transversum (prae-paraphysis). The post-pineal segment is 

 composed of two parts ; first, a relatively thin and little modified part 

 which may form a pineal recess, second the post-commissural segment. 

 This, in fishes, is sharply folded upon itself and associated with the 

 torus and in other groups is frequently imbedded in the front of the 

 optic lobes. The transformations of the above mentioned segments 

 account for the variations in extent of the post-pineal roof of the dien- 

 cephalon discussed by Kupffer. 



It will be seen from the above that we cannot agree with Profes- 

 sor His that the parietal eye of reptiles belongs to the middle set of 

 epiphyses. These questions, however, will soon be discussed at length. 

 The latter part of the paper is occupied by a recapitulation of much 

 which has appeared in the earlier paper on the " Rautenhirn " and 

 descriptions of the mesencephalon, thalamus, and external morphology 

 of the hemispheres. The paper must form the starting point for the 

 student of brain topography. 



The Development of Human and Animal Physiognomy.^ 



This paper appropriately follows that on the morphology of the 

 brain by the same writer and does not permit a resume. The treat- 

 ment is broad and comprehensive rather than detailed and will there- 

 fore be of great pedagogic value. The most obvious hiatus in our 

 knowledge — a comparative study of the nasal passages and Jacobson's 

 organ — is still unfilled. 



The Functions of the Temporal Cerebral Lobes.^ 



The paper quoted gives a series of most instructive data upon a 

 subject which has more often been theoretically than practically inves- 

 tigated. 



Flechsig and Bechterew claim that the temporal lobes are connect- 

 ed with the posterior tubercle of the carpora quadrigemina via the in- 

 ternal geniculata. Monakow, as shown elsewhere in this number, ex- 

 tirpated the temporal lobes in new-born rabbits and found the internal 

 geniculata atrophic. Zacher^ found secondary degeneration of the 



^ His, WiLHELM. Die Entwickelung der menschlichen und thierscher 

 Physiognomien. Arch. f. Anat. ti. Phys., Anat. Abth., 1892, p. 3S5, 



'Seppilli, G. The Alienist and Neurologist, XIV, 2. 



^ Arch. f. Psychiatrie, XXII, 3. 



