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for daily use. It is not a lowering, but a broadening, of the ideal of education 
which thus makes these subjects in the best sense humanistic. 
In closing, Professor Atwater urged the importance of such inquiries. He 
showed how they were already being actively pursued in the different countries of 
the world—in Europe, in Japan, and in the United States—and suggested that the 
time had come for the development of the science of the comparative nutrition of 
mankind, 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24. 
The following Papers and Reports were read:— 
1. Motor Localisation in the Lemur. By Dr. W. Pace May and 
Professor ELuior SMitH. 
In this paper the authors showed the area stimulation of which produced 
movements on the opposite side of the body, and demonstrated that the sequence 
of representation of movement was in agreement with that of Sherrington and 
Griinbaum on the ape. The discussion on the homologies of a small sulcus which 
had previously been described as postcentral and precentral, but which is really 
central, as Elliot Smith, arguing merely from morphology, pointed out two years 
ago, was also cleared up. 
The results of localisation in the dog obtained by Elliot Smith and Wilson, 
who have shown that the excitable area is limited anteriorly by the crucial sulcus, 
were described. This result was in harmony with the histological results of 
Cushing. 
2. On Descending Thalamus Tracts. By Dr. W. Pace May. 
The author discussed the results of previous workers on the optic thalamus, 
and described some experiments he had made on this subject. He showed that, 
following lesions in the thalamus, certain motor disturbances were produced, and 
that descending paths could be traced from the thalamus into the anterior and 
lateral columns of the spinal cord. He also showed photographs and specimens of 
a descending tract, hitherto undescribed, in the posterior columns of the cervical 
and dorsal cord. This extended downwards from the thalamic region, and 
occupied a position near the middle line at the anterior end of Goll’s column, In 
rare cases fibres could be traced into the lowest portions of the spinal cord. 
3. Jowné-ill in Foals. By Professor G. Sims Woopuxan, M.D. 
This is an affection of especial importance to horse-breeders, in which, in 
addition to certain constitutional symptoms, marked stiffness and swelling make 
their appearance in the joints, while at a later stage abscesses form. Investigation 
of the cause of this disease proved it to be due to a micro-organism which gained 
admittance into the young animal through the cut end of the umbilical cord. 
From the practical point of view it was therefore evident that such precautions as 
are taken against septic infection in the case of the child at birth should also be 
taken in the case of the foal. 
4. A Committee of Pathological Research. By Dr. T. 8. P. StRANGEWAYS. 
Dr. Strangeways gave an account of a committee of pathological research 
which is being founded with the object of investigating some of the more 
Important diseases the pathology of which is as yet undetermined. The 
