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parallel and equidistant from each other, being divided by single folds. Their course 

 is only moderately sinuous, and throughout follows the long axis of the lobe — that is, 

 have considerable upward tUt. Besides these a fourth sulcus, not ordinarily visible 

 below, is met with laterally behind, or close to the occipital border. These fissures 

 undoubtedly represent the three temporal ones recognized in man and the primates. 

 The foremost, and possibly the one behind that, may be considered equivalent to the 

 parallel or antero-temporal. The third or second and third may be regarded as mid- 

 temporal; and they both merge into, and become continuous with, what I have 

 described as the long limb of the Sylvian fissure. The fourth sulcus divides the post- 

 temporal from the inferior occipital gyrus; it sweeps well round towards the upper 

 back part of the hemisphere. As regards other occipital sulci I did not take accurate 

 note. 



d. Convolutions of the outer face. — Frontal. — Under these come those situated below, 

 or the orbital series. They are simple folds lengthwise to the long axis of the brain, and 

 three in number, viz. external, middle, and internal. The inferior fi'ontal gyrus almost 

 appears to be a continuation upwards of the external orbital. It chiefly forms the 

 outer front lower angle of the hemisphere, and comprises a somewhat vertical and 

 transverse loop-shaped fold. The midfrontal stage has similarly an upright and bent 

 di\dsion. The suprafrontal tier lies alongside the margia of the hemispherical fissure, 

 constituting a zigzag convolution, which appears to go back well nigh to the middle of 

 the brain. Both mid- and suprafrontal gyri are in continuity ; and each posteriorly 

 joins the recurrent longitudinal folds of the first ascending parietal convolution. The 

 short hammer-shaped crucial gyrus crops forwards on the inner anterior aspect of the 

 suprafrontal convolution. 



Parietal gyri. — Three in number, each possessing an ascending plication, as obvious 

 a longitudinally directed one, and folds which have a lobular character terminating 

 towards the posterior summit of the hemisphere. The antero-parietal begins about the 

 spheno-parietal region, where no clear line of demarcation separates it from the second 

 ascending plication. At the outer fronto-parietal prominence separation becomes clearer, 

 the antero-parietal passing upwards behind the midfrontal, and, as above stated, becomes 

 involved with the latter and the suprafrontal gyri. At the suprafrontal prominence a 

 double fold wends backwards ; and this, the antero-parietal convolution in proximity to 

 the great marginal gyrus, continues rearwards to the internal perpendicular fissure, in 

 front of which it forms a kind of lobule indented by one or two secondary short sulci. 



The postparietal convolution, as it rises from the base, is a single broad smooth fold 

 which, on the side of the lobe behind the infero-frontal gyrus, has a forward knee-like 

 bend. It then sweeps obliquely towards the Sylvian fissure, goes upward and parallel 

 to this ; and where the supramarginal gyrus turns, it again bends anteriorly. Here, 

 gaining the upper surface, it wheels backwards, presenting a broad mass and subsidiary 

 grooves above the supramarginal lobule ; thence it continues to the occipital region, 



