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animals, made by Floumis and his followers, though in 

 themselves sufficiently definite, are apparently contradicted 

 by pathological observations upon the human subject. There 

 should be no such discrepancy between well-conducted ex- 

 periments and carefully-observed cases of disease or injury ; 

 for it is certain that the functions of the cerebellum present no 

 essential differences in different animals, at least in man, the 

 mammalia, and birds. It is necessary, therefore, for the phy- 

 siologist, by carefully analyzing and correcting the results 

 obtained by direct experimentation, and by applying to the 

 study of palological observations the facts elicited by these 

 experiments, to endeavor to harmonize the real or apparent 

 contradictions 5 for, as we have often had occasion to remark, 

 there are no exceptions to the laws to which the functions 

 of similar classes of animals are subordinated ; and observa- 

 tions and experiments, apparently discordant, will always be 

 found, as our positive knowledge advances, to present differ- 

 ences in the conditions under which the phenomena have 

 been observed. To apply this to the functions of the cere- 

 bellum, it may be safely assumed that it is impossible for 

 this organ to preside directly and exclusively over the mus- 

 cular coordination in birds and the inferior mammals, and 

 in man, to possess different functions. "With regard to the 

 cerebrum, man possesses, not only a higher degree of de- 

 velopment of certain intellectual faculties than the inferior 

 animals, but is endowed with others, such as the power of 

 articulate language. But in man and in the higher orders 

 of animals, the general properties and functions of the mus- 

 cular system are essentially the same. To take one of the 

 most generally-accepted views of the functions of the cere- 

 bellum, if this be the centre for muscular coordination in 

 birds and mammals, it has the same office in man, though 

 it may possess additional functions not found lower in the 

 scale of animal life. Keeping in view, then, the desirability 

 of bringing into accord the results of experiments and of 

 pathological observations, we will first study carefully the 



