408 Prof. C. S. Sherrington. Examination of the Peripheral 



January 21, 1897. 



Sir JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Vice- President and 

 Treasurer, in the Chair. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



The Right Hon. Sir John Eldon Gorst, a member of Her Majesty's 

 Most Honourable Privy Council, was admitted into the Society. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " On Cheirostrobus, a new Type of Fossil Cone from the Cnlci- 

 ferous Sandstones." By D. H. SCOTT, M.A,, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



II. " Experiments in Examination of the Peripheral Distribution of 

 the Fibres of the Posterior Roots of some Spinal Nerves. 

 Part II." By C. S. SHEEEINGTON, M.D., F.R.S., Holt Pro- 

 fessor of Physiology, University College, Liverpool. 



III. " Cataleptoid Reflexes in the Monkey." By C. S. SHERRJNGTOX, 



M.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor of Physiology, University 

 College, Liverpool. 



IV. " On Reciprocal Innervation of Antagonistic Muscles. Third 



Note." By C. S. SHERRINGTON, M.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor 

 of Physiology, University College, Liverpool. 



" Experiments in Examination of the Peripheral Distribution 

 of the Fibres of the Posterior Roots of some Spinal Nerves, 

 Part II." By C. S. SHERRINGTON, F.R.S., Holt Professor 

 of Physiology, University College, Liverpool. Received 

 November 12, 1896, Read January 21, 1897. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper is in continuation of one brought before the Society in 

 1892, and published in 'Phil. Trans.,' B, vol. 184. In that commu- 

 nication the peripheral distribution of the sensory nerve-roots of the 

 sacro-lumbar and the thoracic regions was examined. In the present 

 the examination is extended to the cervical and brachial sensory 



