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the nerve-trunk. As an instance of the first we need only recall 

 the wealth of ramifications of the single processes of monopolar 



FIG. 158. Ganglion-cell with richly-developed 

 nerve processes from ventral cord of cray- 

 fish. (Methyl blue and picric acid.) 

 (Biedermann.) 



ganglion-cells in the ventral cord of crustaceans and worms (Fig. 

 158), as well as the " collaterals " from the vertebrate spinal cord. 

 Here the branching obviously forms connection between various 



