The Anatomy of a T Y G M I E. .^7 



of the edge of the feat of the Sphenoides to pierce the Dura Mater, and to be 

 difirjbuted Into the hafts of the Brain. In our Subject I thought the An- 

 fra&us of the Brain much the fame, both in the anterionr and hinder 

 part. Nor did I obferve any difference in the Mamillary Frocejfes or Op- 

 tick_Nerves^ ox Rete Mirahile, but all, asinzMan. 



The Cerebellum in our Pj>gf^"s was divided by CirciUi^ as in Man. It 

 ha'd like wife the Procejfus Ver mi formes. Dr. Wil/if (80) makes this Re- 

 mark upon this Part : Cerebellum autem ipfum, in quibufvis feri Animali- 

 bm, ejufdem figure & proportionis, nee non ex ejufmodi lamellk conflatum 

 reperitur. ^ne Cerebrum diverfmode ab homine conjiguratum habeni , nti 

 Volucres (S Pifces, item inter ^adrupedes Cuniculi d^ Mures, quorum Ce- 

 rebra gyris feu convolutionibus carent ; his Cerebelli Jpecies eadem, fimilis pli- 

 carum di^ofttio €?• Tartium cAterarum compojitur£ exijiunt. 'Tis from 

 hence he forms liis noted Hypothejts^ How that the Animal Spirits that are 

 bred in the Cerebrum , do ferve for Voluntary Motions ; and thofe in the 

 Cerebellum for involuntary. 



If we furvey the inward Parts of the Brain in our Pygmie, we fliall 

 here likewife find all exactly as in a Humane Body ; viz. The Medullary 

 Subftance running up between the G?y//V(?/i Tht Con earner ati on ^ the Cor- 

 pus Callofum, the Fornix and it's Crura the fame. The Ventricles large and 

 fpatious. The Corpora Striata^ the Thalami Nervorum Opticorum all alike. 

 The plexus Choroides the fame 5 as were alfo the three Foramina as in 

 Man ; The Glandsda Pinealis proportionably large. The Protuberantis 

 Orbiculares ; i. e. The Nates and Tefles in our Pygmie were the fame as in 

 Man ; whereas in Brutes (as Dr. Willis well obferves) the Nates are al- 

 ways proportionably larger than in Man ; but it was not fo in our Pyg- 

 mie. The Valvula major here was very plain. The Cerebellum being di- 

 vided, the Medullary Parts reprefented the Branches of Trees, as a Mans 

 does. The Medulla Oblongata and Medulla Spinalis the fame as the Hu- 

 mane ; and all Parts being fo conformable here to a Humane Brain, I 

 thought it fuflBcient juft to name them, fince I have caufed to be made 

 two figures of the Brain in our Pygmie from the Life, and in its Natural 

 Bignefs, where all the Parts are plainly reprefented to the Eye. 



(80) walk Cei'ehrl Anat. cap.j, p.22. 



