( 1052 ) 
and next to it (c), between the fase. longit. post. and the base, a 
large number of smaller reticular cells are seen. Situated ventro- 
laterally on the periphery are a group of polygonal cells (Fig. 8, /,), 
which lie dorso-medially in one straight line with two other groups. 
The most dorsal of the three groups contains motor VII. root-cells, 
the middle. one is very likely a more ventral VII. nucleus. It is 
highly improbable that the most ventral of the three (/,) is a 
VII. nucleus, as has already been pointed out by Kapprrs'). This 
last group forms the continuation of group /, of fig. 7. I consider 
them as reticular cells. 
On a level slightly more frontal than is shown by fig. 8, more 
large reticular cells are again seen. Fig. 9 represents a section 
passing through the VIII. root-entrance. In the raphe large cells can 
nowhere be seen in sections taken more frontally than tig. 8, though 
y this fact 
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in fig. 9 a few small cells can be seen in the raphe. | 
too the reticular nucleus of the vagus region is distinguished from 
nc XIII 
zw. MU 
Fig. 9. Alligator sclerops. 
the reticular cells of more frontal regions of the oblongata. The 
arrangement of the large cells next the lower border of the fasc. 
longit. post. (6) and more ventrally (c) medially from the large oliva 
superior is seen in the figure. 
I still wish to call attention to some very large polygonal cells 
occurring in the grey matter of the radix descendens nv. V. and to 
1) See also Verhandel. Kon. Acad. v. Wet. 2de Sectie, Part. 16, No. 4. (Map 
E. and page 64). 
