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XLIII. Researches on the Anatomy of the Braifi. By Dr. Fo- 

 viLLE, Principal Physician of the Lunatic Asylum for the 

 Department of the Lo'vcer Seine, S,-c. ; to which is prefixed 

 M. DE Blatnville's Report on the Subject to the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences. 



To Richard Phillips. 

 My dear Friend, 

 T HAVE been favoured by my friend Dr. Foville, of Rouen, 

 ^ with a copy of his interesting memoir on the Anatomy of 

 the Brain, presented some time since to the French Academy 

 of Sciences ; and Hkewise with a copy of the report drawn up 

 by Professor Blainville, one of the examiners, to whom the 

 memoir was referred by the Academy. 



Tliese papers have not yet been printed in France, but the 

 Doctor has obligingly consented to their publication in this 

 country ; and I have in consecjuence made the accompanying 

 translations, which are now at thy service. 



To those who may be unacquainted with the name of Dr. 

 Foville, it affords me pleasure to have this opportunity of 

 offering my testimony to his talents, and to the steady zeal 

 with which he has devoted himself to his profession. 



At the Salpetriere and at Bicetre he long enjoyed uncom- 

 mon advantages for the prosecution of those branches of study 

 which are more particularly connected with the subject of 

 these papers. 



Some of the anatomical facts which the Doctor has brought 

 to light were demonstrated to me by himself more than three 

 years ago. He has since shown me others equally curious, 

 which I believe he is now about to make public. 



Thine truly, 

 New Broad-street, 9, 1st month, 1829. Thomas HoDGKIN. 



[The perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences certifies that the following is an extract from the pro- 

 ceedings of the meeting of the 23rd of June 1828.] 



The^ Academy at its meeting of the 24'th of March last, 

 referred to us for examination, a memoir presented to it by 

 Dr. Foville, who was long attached to the service of the hos- 

 pitals of Paris, and who is now chief physician to the Lunatic 

 Asylum at Rouen, The researches contained in this memoir 

 relate to the anatomy of the brain of man only ; they are not 

 extended to the most nearly related species, and of course do 

 not notice the inferior divisions of the osteozoa. 



The study of the composition and arrangement of the cen- 

 tral part of the nervous sysleni, that is, of the spinal cord and 



brain. 



