NERVOUS SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES. 



Above the commissures is a slender prolongation of the median 

 ventricle, forward beyond the foramen of Monro, which corresponds 



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Fig. 159. The mesial surface of the right half of the brain of Ornithorhynchus . 

 From G. Elliot Smith. 



to the anterior portion of the median ventricle in amphibia (Fig. 



