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Notes on the Cerebral Convolutions of tlie Carnivora. 

 By St. aEOEGE Mivaet, F.E.S., F.L.S., V.P.Z.S. 



[Read 18th December, 1884.] 



Ik the year 1834, Sir Eichard Owen, in describing* tbe brain of the 

 Cbeetah {Felis {Gyncehiriis) jithata), took occasion to point out the 

 generally similar disposition of the cerebral convolutions through- 

 out the feline group. The subject has been further treated by 

 him in his ' Anatomy of Vertebrates ' f. Considerably before the 

 appearance of the last-named work, MM. Leuret and Gratiolet 

 published descriptions, with admirable illustrations J, of the con- 

 volutions of a variety of carnivorous mammals, pointing out the 

 characters which are more or less common in, or are peculiar to, 

 four sets of species. M. Dareste also contributed a memoir § on 

 the convolutions of the mammalian brain, one section being 

 devoted to " Types des Carnivores." The late Professor Paul 

 G-ervais published l|, later on, an account of the same structures in 

 a much greater number o£ carnivorous species, accompanied by 

 numerous figures representing the brains of such species and of 



* See Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. i. pp. 133-136, plate xx. 



t See vol. iii. p. 116 (1868). 



\ ' Anatomie Comparee du Systeme nerveux,' with an Atlas (1839-1857). 



I " Circonvolutions du Cerveaux chez les Mammiferes," in the Ann. des Sc. 

 Nat. 4^ serie (1855), tome iv. pp. 73-76, plate ii. figs. 1-8. 



II "Memoire sur les formes eerebrales propres aux CarniTores," Nouvelles 

 Archives du Mus. toI. vi. (1870), pp. 103-162, plates iii.-ix. 



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