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works;* although, as the writer then first attempted to 

 show, such notions threw much light upon Cerebral 

 Physiology, and upon certain defects of Speech resulting 

 from disease of the Brain, f The writer's views were shortly 

 afterwards endorsed and extended by Dr.. Broadbent, in 

 a valuable paper on the " Cerebral Mechanism of Speech 

 and Thought." J 



Soon, moreover, physiologists began in earnest to 

 search for such ' Perceptive Centres ' in the cortical 

 grey matter. The first to do this was Dr. Ferrier, 

 though he makes no reference to the writer's views. He 

 took up the enquiry, perhaps independently certainly 

 in a thoroughly systematic manner and his results 

 deserve to be most carefully studied. The notion 

 that there ought to be such ' perceptive centres ' evi- 

 dently commended itself to Ferrier, and, with charac- 

 teristic energy, he sought to throw light upon their locali- 

 zation, as he had previously instigated by the views of 

 Hughlings Jackson sought to establish the existence 



* No such conclusions were to be inferred, from the views 

 concerning Cerebral Physiology put forward in this country 

 generally. There is a philosophical opposition, in fact, between, 

 them and doctrines which have been widely promulgated by Dr. 

 Carpenter (see an article on " Sensation and Perception,' "Nature," 

 Dec. 23, 1869, and Jan. 20, 1870, p. 309). 



t See " Physiology of Thinking " (" Fortnightly Keview," Jan- 

 uary, 1869), and " Defects of Speech in Brain Disease " (' Brit, and 

 For. Med. Chir. Rev.," January and April, 1869). 



I " Med. Chir. Trans.," 1872, p. 180. Writing, indeed, in the 

 " Journal of Mental Science " for April, 1870 (p. 23), Broadbent 

 .says : " These convolutions then which receive central fibres, and 

 are bilaterally associated by the C. callosum, will constitute the 

 perceptive centres of Dr. Bastian." 



His first communication on this subject was presented to the 

 Royal Society ,*an April, 1875, and is to be found in Pt. II. of 

 that year's " P%. Trans.," p. 445. 



