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THE BRAIN OF QUADRUPEDS AND 



(fig. 72, c, c) and the diverging Fornix below, are two thiii 

 vertical and almost parallel septa. These septa represent 

 the inner walls of the ' lateral ventricles ' and constitute 

 parts, therefore, of the contiguous inner faces of the two 

 Cerebral Lobes. They, together with the great trans- 

 verse commissure above and the Fornix below, form the 

 boundaries of a narrow and somewhat triangular cavity 

 known as the ^ fifth ventricle.' This small ventricle is 



Fig. 72. — Brain of Horse, longitudinal section through its centre, showing internal 

 surface of Cerebral Hemisphere. (i^oHy, after Lcuret.) cc. Corpus callosum, between 

 it and the Fornix below and behind, is the ' fifth ventricle.' p, Thalamus; co, the 

 middle or soft commissure; tq, corpora quadrigemina, in front of which is the 

 Pineal body, with one of its ' peduncles ' passing forwards along the upper border of 

 the corrcsi)onding Thalamus, and beliind it the cut surface of the middle lobe of 

 the Cerebellum, e. Olfactory lol)e ; o, olivary body. 



quite different from, and also quite unconnected with, the 

 other four brain cavities, which are all of them continuous 

 with one another — as are the corresponding antecedent 

 cavities met with in the early developmental phases of 

 the brain. But the ' fifth ventricle ' obviously could not 

 come into existence till the Corpus Callosum and Fornix 

 had become developed. Consequently no such cavity 

 exists in Birds, Reptiles, Amphibia, or Fishes.* 



* The arraiigenioiit of these central ]):irts of the Brain in lower 

 Quadnqx'ds has been well described and figured by Prof. Flower 

 ill the Philosoph. Traus. for 18G5. 



