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of the hippocampus, he obtained temporary abolition of smell and 

 taste, in addition to loss of touch and hearing. None of these 

 experiments as Ferrier expressly points out can define the 

 exact limits of the centre of taste and smell ; but he believes that 

 the olfactory area is quite distinct from the area that reacts to 

 electrical stimulation. 



Our experiments on dogs (1885) confirm the importance of 

 the hippocampal region for "the olfactory sense. They further 





FIG. 304. External surface of right hemisphere of female infant 54 cm. long, still-born a month 

 before normal period of foetal maturity. (Flechsig.) The explanation refers to this and the 

 following figure. 



The figures on this and the following illustration indicate the chronological order in which the 

 fibres lying below the different cortical area become myelinated ; the letters show the order of 

 myelination of different segments of the same area. The dotted surface shows the distribution 

 of imyelination, which is approximately the same as that observed in male infants of a month 

 old. The temporal lobe is pressed downwards, so as to open the Sylvian fissure and make visible 



show that the pes hippocampi major or the cornu Anmionis is 

 an important part of the olfactory centre. 



