940 : General Notes. 
cerning it by one and another. Can some of your bird 
readers. tell us the why and the wherefore? For, I doubt 
similar cases are not wanting, there being no new thing und 
the sun, am, etc., 
* MEDIA, PENN., September 7, 1887. T.. C. PALMER. 
Relation of the Dorsal Commissures of the Brain 
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prosencephalon, the thalamencephalon, the mesencephalon, an 
ar. ormation of minor folds (neurom 
the vagus and r cranial nerve three outgrowt 
from the thalamencephalon forming the paired and m 
. The diverticulum fro oor of the thalamencep 
-= Abstract read before the New York meeting of the Amer, Assoc: Ad A 
` 1887, by Dr. Henry F. Osborn. ER, ent, 
2 I do not reckon the epencephalon (cerebellum) as a distinct © 
the roof df the metencephalon. ; : in a pape 
X 3. This term has been applied by Dr. Henry Orr, of Princeton, 054 1 
appear upon the development of the lizard’s brain. : a 
