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of nei've-seclioiis of the faniiliar appearance in various sizes. Together 

 they presented precisely the appearance of a transverse section of a 

 Meissner corpuscle. Only by studying serial sections it can be ascer- 

 tained whether we have to do with a Meissner corpuscle or rather 

 with some detached axis-cylinders of free endings. Such forms, which 

 must no donbt be classed as modified Meissner corpuscles, are in 

 my judgment, as many proofs of the close relationship there is 

 indeed between tactile corpuscles and free endings. 

 My conclusions, therefore, are the following: 



1. the cells found by all inquirers') except Dogiel in the Meissnnr 

 corpuscles are elements of the nerve-course itself, lemmoblasts, as 

 I have endeavoured to demonstrate for GRANDRY-corpuscles. 



2. As to structure and behaviour, the nerves in the Meissner- 

 corpuscles correspond exactly with those of the so-called free-endings. 



3. so that it is very likely that the terminal branches of the 

 Meissner corpuscles (ultraterminals) form one connected whole with 

 the free papillary endings. 



1) Thomsa. Langerhans, Ranvier, Merkel, Krause, Leontowitch. Sfamëm, 

 RuFFiNE, Lefebure, VAN DE Velde and others. 



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