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seen to cross one another. In a good speci- 

 men a small process may be seen to run 

 from the deep portion of the cells towards 

 the nuclear layer. 



d. The outer layer of the cortex contains, 

 besides the fibres from the cells of Purkinje, 

 some scattered small angular cells with rela- 

 tively large nuclei; from these cells one or 

 more small branching processes may be seen 

 to proceed, the fibres and cells being imbedded 

 in a close fibrillar network; in this layer 

 numerous capillaries will be seen. 



