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THE DUCTLESS GLANDS 



tissue a large-celled adenoid tissue has nothing to do with 

 the adrenal bodies, and this notwithstanding that in some 

 regions it has a very " epithelial," a very " glandular," appear- 

 ance. 



Giacomini claims to have discovered the true chromaphil 

 bodies arranged segmentally round the intercostal arteries and 



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FIG. 23. Transverse section of a " corpuscle of Stannius " (posterior inter- 

 renal) of Salmo fario (from Giacomini). 



in the wall of the cranial part of the posterior cardinal vein and 

 the vena azygos dextra. He believes that the inter-renal body 

 (cortical representative of the adrenal) is absent in this species 

 of the Dipnoi, and renews Parker's suggestion that it may be 

 replaced functionally by the adenoid tissue. 



It seems extraordinary that there should be no representative 

 of the adrenal cortex in the Dipnoi. The present writer has 



