438 General Notes. (April, 
and parietal lobes, had been removed on the left side of the 
brain. Secondary disturbances in the body of the organ had 
probably made the lesion physiologically more extensive than 
appeared from the surface. The pyramidal tract of fibers in the 
spinal cord, which is in connection with the cerebrum, was found 
to be degenerated throughout its whole extent. 
To a disinterested person it seems, from the evidence here 
offered, that Goltz has shown conclusively the absence of locali- 
zation of function, as that term is commonly understood, for the 
brain of the dog, while Ferrier has failed to completely establish 
his theory of localization of function for the brain of the monkey. 
— Four. of Physiology, Vol. 1v, Nos. 4 and 5. 
WRITING with THE Voice.—At a meeting of the College of 
Physicians, last week, Professor Harrison Allen, of Philadelpha, 
showed a new and very interesting discovery by which spoken 
language can be represented by a series of curved lines on a rè- 
instrument designed by the professor, and which is very simple 
and easy of operating. By means of his device he is enabled to 
register upon the surface of the sooted paper the lines and curves 
that represent the various phonetic sounds of the human voice. 
His observations have proved that the discovery will undoubtedly 
be of great importance in diagnosticating cases of diseases of the 
palate, and in studying the causes of stammering. 
_ Professor Allen has already shown, by means of his interest- 
ing experiments, that many of the sounds which have long ey" 
considered by elocutionists to be formed by the direct action © 
: GREGARIOUS AND Sravisu Instincts.—In his very t” Mr 
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development ntl 
; ap ntiy 
