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that these nerve-fibers do not force their way into the lacunae 

 between the connective-tissue lamellae, but that they lie in the 

 lamellae, enveloped by protoplasm, and remain there. This envelop 

 must decidedly partake of the nature of connective tissue. This 

 observation, therefore, is in perfect harmony with what could pre- 

 viously be established for the neuromuscular spindle of striated 

 muscles. In them also the in-growing regenerating nerve-threads 

 could be seen moving through the protoplasm of the connective- 

 tissue cells of the capsular space, which cells have developed into 

 a conductive-tissue. 



Utrecht, August 1922. 



