QUARTERLY CHRONICLE OF MICROSCOPICAL 
SCIENCE. 
HISTOLOGY! 
VII. Nervous System.—l. On the Nerves of the Capsule of 
the Knee-Joint in the Rabbit.—Nicoladoni (‘ Stricker’s 
Jahrbiicher,’ 1873, No. 4) chose this object because the 
articular capsule is very thin and easily isolated. Excised 
portions were treated by gold chloride and dilute acetic acid 
and examined in glycerine. The nerve-fibres are thus shown 
as brownish or blackish lines on a rose-coloured ground. In 
good preparations it can be seen that numerous medullated 
fibres run in the subserous connective tissue, being only 
separated from the endothelium by a few capillaries. They 
divide into two or three thinner medullated branches, which 
soon terminate in a conical swelling, at which point the 
medullary sheath ceases, numerous pale fibres being given 
off, which ultimately communicate to form a network sur- 
rounding the endothelial and connective-tissue cells. The 
greater part of the nerves terminate in this manner, but once 
a non-medullated fibre was seen, which, after forming a 
delicate network, gave off a branch to small artery, finally 
terminating apparently in close connection with the nuclei of 
the muscular coat. A termination in Pacinian bodies also 
occurs, as Rauber had shown. They are always near the 
larger nerves, from which simple medullated fibres are given 
off, which soon enter an elongated oval body with concentric 
layers, where they terminate in a button-like swelling. 
1 The articles in this division are arranged under the following heads :— 
I. Text-books and Technical Methods. II. The Cell in General. III. Blood. 
IV. Epithelium. V. The Connective Tissues. VI. Muscle. VII. Nervous 
System. VIII. Organs of Sense. IX. Vascular System. X. Digestive 
and Respiratory Organs and Glands. XI. Skin and Hair. XII. Urinary 
and Sexual Apparatus. 
The Editors will be glad to receive, for the purpose of making this 
record more complete, copies of separate memoirs or reprints from pe- 
riodicals, which must otherwise often escape notice. We have to acknow- 
ledge the assistance of Dr. Cavafy in making these abstracts. 
