1886.] Psychology. 475 
descriptions of a master in cerebral anatomy and physiology. The 
text is accompanied by mostly excellent engravings, which are 
so necessary to the comprehension of this abstruse subject. We 
give some of these, Figs. 1, 2 and 3 (Nos. 9, 24 and 56 of the 
book) which represent structure, and Fig. 4 (60) which illustrates 
the law of muscular action under stimulus. 
Meynert opens his chapter on the physiology of the brain with 
the assertion (p. 138) that it is an organ of which the function 
may be inferred from its structure. This inference is justified by 
facts of physiology both normal and abnormal. The most im- 
portant normal physiological law which is adduced in evidence, 
an 1.—Convexity of the human br 
etters are placed on the temporal li 
à * deme bounded by the anteri 
E etters S[/, and the posterior ascending 
(S. : 
alcus occipito-parietalis) ; Sore, occipital fissure; Sf, Sf’, longi- 
— fissures in frontal and temporal lobes; Gf, designates below parallel fissure; 
ore Proccipital fissure (fus gyrus fusiformis); Ca, anterior central convolutions; 
u e : 
indi 3 th er: 
ican © the convex surface of the cuneus, and Occ $ designating the convex sur- 
arch- zn pas lingualis; Gi, em, callosomarginal convolution; @rc.occ, occipital 
j Z’, above ©, frontal convolutions. 
has definite locations is demonstrated by three facts among rel 
The first of these is the intimate relation observed to 
