1048 Recent Literature. 
the Batrachia, is well shown. It is noted that the relative 
ness of the spinal cord in its anterior and posterior reg 
“pends principally upon the extent to which the tail is d 
Five sections of the medulla oblongata, two of the ceret 
seven of the optic lobes and eight of the cerebral lobes are 
also four of the nerve cells of Rana. The fullness of 
is little marked, contrasts greatly with the transverse 
ment and deep posterior fissure of the spinal cord of M 
In the frog the cerebellum is placed vertically, and is ind 
of the optic lobes, while in the tailed Batrachia the latter 
to encroach on its substance. The writer poner sy 
with any theory which claims to distinguish between 
sensory cells, and states that the Ma! jE that hee 
the true functional centers of the nerve cells, is ah 
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