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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VENTRAL NERVES IN SELACHII. 



Sedgwick, A. 



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EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXII-XXIV. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



All the figures were drawn with the Abbe 1 camera. Except Figures 29-32, Plate XXIV, all were drawn from 

 sections of embryos of Squalus acanthias. All the specimens from which the drawings were made were fixed in 

 vom Rath's picro-osmo-aceto platinic chloride mixture and treated subsequently with either pyroligneous or 

 pyrogallic acid. 



PLATE XXII. 



All the figures are camera drawings of cross-sections except Figures 10 and 11, which are frontal sections. With 

 these exceptions all are viewed posteriorly, so that right in the figure corresponds with right in the embryo. The 

 sections are all taken in the posterior half of the body, Figures 1-3 from an 8-mm. embryo and Figures 4-10 from 

 a 10-mm. embryo. The portions of the cross-sections represented in the figures are indicated by a circle in 

 Figure 5. In some cases the developing nerve of the left side and in others that of the right side is represented. 

 Taken as a whole the figures of Plate XXII represent a series of stages in the development of a spinal ventral nerve 

 from the time of its first appearance as a process of a single neuroblast cell until the developing nerve contains its 

 chief constituents, neuraxones and neurilemma cells. The series also presents evidence of the migration of 

 cells from the neural tube. 



