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This view was now also accepted by Cajal, on the basis of his own researches ; 
by the Golgian method he showed how the axis-cylinder process grows out 
of the cell body in the embryo, and how at its peripheral end it has as a rule 
a small thickening, the so-called bud of increscence (cono de crecimiento), 
which gropes its way, as it were, to make a path for the fibre. 
Shortly afterwards, v. Lenhossék, v. Kolliker, Van Gehuchten, and myself 
all arrived at the same opinion as a result of our own individual investigations 
(fig. 7). Weall of us also accepted, more or less definitely, the idea propounded 
Spinal cord of Lizard -embryo 
(transv. sect.) 
Spinal cord of Bat-embryo 
(transv. sect.) 
Spinat cord of Serpent - embryo 
(roan s ya sect) Spinal cord of Lizard-embryo 
(longitud. sect) 
Fic. 7.—Three transverse Sections and one longitudinal Section of the Spinal Cord with 
Nerve-cells and Nerve-fibres stained by means of the Golgi method. 
by His regarding the morphological independence of the nerve-cells in their 
first inception. Cajal led the way here, too, and the rest of us embraced the 
same theory on the basis of the results which we had obtained by the Golgian 
method. We did not discern, as Gerlach claimed, a network in the grey 
substance of the spinal cord and the brain by a union of the dendrites of the 
nerve-cells ; nor did we find, as Golgi assumed, and still seems to assume, 
any network which has arisen from a union of the collateral branches of the 
axons of the nerve-cells. 
As above stated, I also did not find by the methylene method any network 
