310 CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL CONNECTIONS. 



fibre given off from a bundle of dark-bordered fibres 

 distributed to voluntary miiscle may be followed 

 direct to a capillary. See Plate XIX, fig. 1, p. 316. 



4. From the ganglia between the muscular and 

 mucous coats of the small intestine of any small 

 animal (mouse, mole) fine nerve-fibres can be followed 

 in considerable numbers, and traceji to the capillaries 

 of the mucous membrane. I have never been able to 

 see them on the vessels of the villi, but feel convinced 

 they are to be demonstrated as far as this point. 

 Even in the human subject, I have succeeded in 

 making some good, though not perfectly demonstra- 

 tive specimens. 



5. " I have seen a dark-bordered nerve-fibre divide 

 into two branches, one of which ramified upon an 

 adjacent vessel, while the other was distributed to the 

 elementary fibres of the muscle." Also, as already 

 stated, " nerves distributed to arteries and to ele- 

 mentary fibres of striped muscle have been seen to be 

 derived fi"om the same trunk of dark-bordered fibres." 

 — (Croonian Lecture, " Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society," May 11th, 1865.) 



With reference to the peripheral connections of 

 nerves distributed to capillaries, I have to remark — 



1. That in the papillae of the frog's tongue, I have 

 followed fibres from the expansion of the sensitive 

 nerves above the capillary loop to the capillary 

 vessels, and also from a somewhat similar structure 

 in the mucoTis membrane of the snake's mouth to the 

 capillaries. In both cases fibres are also given ofi" 

 from the bundles of dark-bordered fibres before they 

 break up to form the reticulated sensitive expansion. 



2. The bundles of sensitive fibres which break up 

 and form expanded networks in the meshes of the 

 beautiful capillary network at the extremity of the 

 mole's nose give off fibres which may be traced to 

 adjacent capillaries. 



3. Branches from the nerve-fibres ramifying over 



