Proceedings of the Association of American Anatomists IX 



chea, heart and kings of a sheep or calf. The liemolymph glands cannot 

 be missed as they appear like blood clots in the fat. The best staining 

 results were obtained when mercuric chloride was used as the fixing 

 agent. Sections cut in paraffin were stained in saturated alcoholic solu- 

 tion of eosin and then in a saturated aqueous solution of methylene blue 

 made slightly alkaline, dehydrated with neutral 95 per cent and absolute 

 alcohol or with absolute alcohol alone and cleared in xylene and mounted 

 in neutral Canada balsam. 



THE DEVELOPMENT AND MORPHOLOGY OP THE URINIFEROUS 

 TUBULES OP CERTAIN MAMMALS. By G. Carl Huber. Depart- 

 ment of Histology and Embryology, University of Michigan. 



THE ODORIPEROUS GLANDS OP THE HUMAN AXILLA. By William 

 Keiller. (Histological report by Dr. M. Charlotte Schaefer.) Medi- 

 cal Department, University of Texas, Galveston, Texas. 



REPORT OF A CASE OP SUPERNUMERARY MAMMARY GLANDS IN 

 THE AXILLAE OP A WOMAN (with specimens). By William Keil- 

 ler. Medical Department, University of Texas, Galveston, Texas. 



THE EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OP THE INTERSTITIAL CELLS 

 OP LEYDIG. By R. H. Whitehead. University of North Carolina. 

 American Journal of Anatomy, Vol. III. 



A DESCRIPTION OF THE GROSS ANATOMY OF THE ADULT HUMAN 

 BRAIN. By Bern Budd Gallaudet. Columbia University, New York 

 City. 



Basis of description : Forty adult human brains, upon which gross 

 work only was done. This comprised comparisons with each other of 

 (1) medisections of the diacoele; (2) transections, dorsiventral, along 

 entire dorsal surface of thalamus; and (3) specimens of the thalamus 

 itself, obtained by peeling off " hemisphere " from its lateral surface, 

 and tegmental fibers of mesencephal from its ventral surfaces. 



Those points only will be given which are not found in the usual de- 

 scriptions. 



The thalamus is wedge-shaped and has four surfaces, a cephalic bor- 

 der and a rounded caudal extremity, the pulvinar. The surfaces are 

 dorsal, ventral, mesal and lateral. 



The cephalic border is the angle of the wedge and is common to both 

 the lateral and mesal surfaces. From it these surfaces diverge caudad. 

 This divergence gives a triangular outline to both the dorsal and ventral 

 surfaces. 



