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there are no lateral lobes in the cerebellum in Fishes, these crura 

 are rudimentary, and the 'pons' is absent. In the Shark they 

 connect the sides of the base of the cerebellum with the ' restiform 

 commissure,' figs. 172 & 187, /. In most Fishes two fasciculi of 

 medullary fibres proceed, as ' anterior crura,' from the under and 

 fore part of the cerebellum, or converge from the lateral and fore- 

 part forward, to form the inner wall or septum, fig. 184, r, of the 

 optic lobes : these answer to the ' processus a. cerebello ad testes ' 

 of the human brain : they are connected below their origin at the 

 under part of the cerebellum by one or two transverse fasciculi of 

 white fibres, forming the ' commissura ansulata,' which crosses the 

 pre-pyramids just behind the ' hypoaria,' fig. 185, n. The inferior 

 white surface of the cerebellum, which forms the roof of the fourth 

 ventricle, is called ' discus cerebelli,' and from this part small tuber- 

 cles project in a few fishes (e. g. Blennius and Sturio, fig. 173, c). 

 The restiform columns, quitting the post-pyramidal crura of 

 the cerebellum, and having effected by their previous confluence 

 therewith some interchange of filaments, swell 

 out at the anterior lateral parts of the medulla 

 oblongata, and u'ive origin to the oreat trigeminal 

 nerve. They here form considerable 'trigeminal 

 lobes' in the Loach and Herring, fig. 184, i, and 

 are folded or ' fimbriate ' in Chimcera,&g. 179, dd, 

 and most Plagiostomes, where they are closely 

 connected with a thick vascular mass of pia 

 mater and arachnoid. The trigeminal lobes are 

 convolute in the Skate ; enormous and blended 

 with the vagal lobes in the Torpedo ; but in most 

 Osseous Fishes (Lepidosteus, Cod) they are not 

 developed so as to merit the name of lobes. In 

 the Cod the inner surfaces of the restiform bodies 

 project into the fourth ventricle, and obliterate 

 the fore part of the calamus by meeting above 

 it ; this commissure, which is beneath the cere- 

 bellum, is the ' commissura restiformis,' fig. 182. 

 It is remarkably developed in Carcltarias, where # 

 it seems to form a small supplemental cerebellum 

 beneath the large normal one : in fig. 172 

 the medulla oblongata is cut across, the fourth 

 ventricle exposed from behind, and the restiform commissure, /, is 

 raised : it has an anterior and posterior median notch. 



The primary division of the brain, which consists of the medulla 

 oblongata with the cerebellum and other less constant appendages 



Brain of Chimnra mon- 

 strosa. cxi ix. 



