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PHYSIOLOGY OP THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



In the ruminants traces of the fissure of Rolando may be detected, 

 but in none of the ruminants, rodents, marsupials, or even carnivora, 

 with the exception of the seal, is there to be found a backward prolonga- 

 tion of the lateral ventricle forming a posterior cornu. 



In the quadrumana the plan of the arrangement of the cerebral con- 

 volutions to a certain extent resembles that seen in the cerebrum of man. 



The characteristics of this organization are found — first, in the 

 existence of the occipital lobe, with the prolongation into it of the lateral 

 ventricle; second, the fissures occupy the position of the fissures of the 

 human brain, of which the most important are the fissure of Rolando, 

 dividing the frontal from the parietal lobe, the parieto-occipital fissure 



Fig. 348.— Median Aspect of the Right Hemisphere. (Landois.) 



CC, corpus callosum divided longitudinally ; Gf, gyrus fornicatus ; H, gyrus hippocampi; h, sulcus 

 hippocampi; U, uncinate gyrus ; cm, calloso-marginal fissure; Fi, first frontal convolution; c, terminal 

 portion of fissure of Rolando ; A, ascending frontal convohition ; B. ascending parietal convolution and 

 paracentral lobule; Pi', precuneus, or quadrate lobule; Oz, cuneus ; Po, parieto-occipital fissure; o. trans- 

 verse occipital fissure; oc, calearine fissure; Oct, superior, oc", inferior ramus of the same; D, gyrus 

 descendens ; T 4 , gyrus occipito-temporalis lateralis (lobulus fusiformisj ; T 6 , gyrus oecipito-temporalis 

 medialis (lobus lingualis). 



distinguishing the occipital from the parietal lobe ; and, third, the fissure 

 of the hippocampi, formed by the folding inward of the cerebral substance 

 along the posterior cornua. In the higher monkeys numerous other 

 fissures complicate the cerebral surfaces and to a certain extent corre- 

 spond with the arrangement of the convolutions in the human brain. 

 In all these may be recognized certain primary frontal, parietal, occipital, 

 and temporal convolutions, which have a general longitudinal direction. 

 As a rule, the cerebral hemispheres are more convoluted in the larger 

 species of any group of mammals than in the smaller species of the 

 same group. For example, in the pachydermata the highest degree of 

 complexity of the convolutions is found in the elephant. 



