1865.] 



Nerves Distributed to Capillaries. 



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seen in the specimens from which these drawings have been taken are true 

 nerve-fibres, is proved by the circumstance of their having been followed 

 from or into undoubted nerve-trunks. The evidence I have adduced iu 



Connective tissue covering part of the mylohyoid muscle of the frog, and extending 

 from its posterior portion, a. Capillary vessels, with their nerve-fibres, b. Bundles of 

 fine dark-bordered nerve-fibres, from which fine nerve-fibres may be traced to the capil- 

 laries, and to their distribution in the connective tissue, where they form networks of 

 exceedingly fine compound fibres. The engraving represents the specimen as magnified 

 only 110 diameters; but the original drawing was taken from it when magnified by a 

 much higher power. 



favour of this view, is of the same nature as that which is admitted to prove 



