CHAP. ii. f THE BRAIN. 811 



We have already spoken of the fillet, as seeming to be a 

 special internuncial tract connecting what appear to be more 

 particularly afferent or sensory parts of the bulb, such as the 

 gracile and cuneate nuclei, with such parts of the middle brain 

 as the optic thalamus and thus indirectly with the cortex, and 

 of its value as a probable path of sensations of one kind or 

 another from the body at large. 



A conspicuous part of the brain, namely the cerebellum, 

 naturally arrests our attention on account of its large connec- 

 tions with what appear to be afferent structures ; what may be 

 said concerning this will be said in the next section. 



