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so-called motor-cells and the inferior (anterior) roots, can be 
demonstrated in the frog more readily than in any other animal. 
We shall look with much interest for future contributions by 
the author to our knowledge of the histology of the nervous 
system of the lower vertebrates, as it is a field greatly neglected 
in this country, Dr. Dean’s monograph on the general subject 
not having been succeeded by similar works until the present 
time; these studies, moreover, have a great interest in connec- 
tion with the views of Lewes and Bastian. 
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