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expounder of this view, compares to the central nervous system of the 

 Vertebrata the dorsal nerve cord found by him. The cerebral ganglia of 

 the Nemerteans are held to correspond to the series of ganglia of the 

 cranial nerves of the Vertebrata, and the lateral nerves to the nervi 

 laterales which occur so constantly in the latter group. In the chorda 

 HuBRECHT sees the metamorphosed sheath of the proboscis, while the 

 remnant of the proboscis itself would be recognized in the hypophysis. 

 For this view Hubrecht finds support in the fact that in certain Nemer- 

 teans the proboscis opens out in the vicinity of the oesophagus, and that 

 in Tetrastemma it is said even to arise from the wall of the oesophagus 

 (Hoffmann, No. 7). For the present these explanations have only the 

 value of a mere hypothesis. 



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