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THE BRAIN OF QUADRUPEDS AND 



(fig. 95) does at the bead of the representatives of the 

 ' obhque pattern ' met with among Herbivora. 



It is somewhat puzzHng that such a position should be 

 taken by the brain of a creature possessing no greater 

 dimensions than the Dolphin. But we need more infor- 

 mation as to the exact characters of the brain in the 

 larger Cetacea, in which, according to the rule previously 

 specified, the complicacy of convolutions ought to be 

 extremely well marked — though their diminished powers 



Fig. 101.— Brain of the Dolijhin, upper aspect. (Owen, after Tiedcmann.) 



and diminished customary rate of Movement would afford 

 a set-off in the contrary direction. While one of the 

 great Whales is leisurely moving along at the rate of 

 five miles an hour, a Dolphin may and often does easily 

 cover twenty miles in the same time, and its superiority in 

 regard to variety of Movements would probably be equally 

 well marked.* 



* Since this Chapter hns been in the printer's hands, a, descrip- 

 tion with fi^nires of the Brain of the White Whale iJlhu/a) has 

 been published in tlie Journal of Anatomy and Pltiisioloiji/, Jan. 

 1879, by Dr. Major. 



