OF THE CONAEIO-HTPOPHTSIAL TEACT. 



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(Baia hatis) the extension of the pineal part of the tract in ques- 

 tion reaches beyond the cartilaginous roof of the brain-case ; in 



advance of tho cerebral lobes (but in vertical parallel with the palate). In the 

 Cod the hypophysis, fig. 185, jo, is a subspherical mass, with an irregular sur- 

 face almost half the size of the human ' pituitary gland,' and illustrating the vast 

 proportional size of this constant appendage to the brain of Fishes" (p. 280). 



