JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVII, 
Illustrating Dr. E. Klein^s Memoir on the Termination 
of the Nerves of the Mammalian Cornea.^^ 
(Figures 4 and 6a are drawn by Mr. Noble Smith, all others by the 
author.) 
Fig. 1. — From a horizontal section through the rabbit’s cornea. Mag- 
nifying power about 260. Showing the subbasilar plexus proper, a. 
Branches of the stroma plexus, situated behind and close to Bowman’s 
membrana elastica anterior, a. Fine nerve-fibrils, at first in the same 
level as a, but, passing into a deeper layer, terminate in the substantia 
propria, b. Thicker nerve-fibrils, somewhat anterior to a, being situated 
within Bowman’s membrane, x. Fine nerve-fibrils, which enter the sub- 
epithelial network, xx. Bundles of pria’.itive nerve-fibrils which come off 
from the rami perforantes and enter the subepithelial network. 
Fig. 2. — From the same cornea as fig. 1. Magnifying power about 260. 
A. Branch of the stroma plexus of the same level as a in fig. A. n . Fine 
nerve-fibrils situated within Bowman’s membrane, the intrabasilar fibrils. 
At X they pass into the depth again, and finally terminate in the substantia 
propria. At xx they enter the subepithelial network. 
Fig. 3. — From the same preparation as fig. 2. Magnifying power about 
260. a. Branch of the stroma plexus, similar to a in the preceding figures. 
n. Fine nerve-fibrils immediately behind the subbasilar plexus of fig. 1. 
These are the deep subbasilar fibrils referred to in the text. Most of 
them terminate in the substantia propria. 
Fig. 4. — From the same cornea as the preceding figures. Magnifying 
power about 440. Showing fine nerve-fibrils of the substantia propria of 
the eornea, and their relation to the corneal eorpuscles. These latter are 
only indieated as granular plates, their proeesses have not been drawn. 
At a apparent terminations. 
Fig. 4a. — From a similar cornea as in the preceding figure. Magnifying 
power about 660. Showing the relation of the fine nerve-fibrils of the 
substantia propria to the corneal corpuseles. At a apparent terminations. 
Fig. 5. — From a cornea of a kitten. Magnifying power about 660. 
Showing the relation of a fine nerve-fibril to the processes of a corneal 
corpusele. This latter being stained of a grey colour, and the nerve-fibril 
black, the distinetion between the two is easily made. The nerve-fibril 
is not aetually conneeted with the processes of the corneal corpuscle, but 
lies elose to them, both being contained in the lymph-canalicular system. 
This applies equally to figs. 4 and 4a. 
Fig. 6. — From the same cornea as in the preceding figure. Magnifying 
power about 1400. Showing a very fine nerve-fibril giving off a lateral 
branehlet, whieh terminates on not in the corneal corpuscle in a fine 
network. 
Fig. 6a. — From the cornea of a frog. Magnifying power about 660. 
At a are shown the ultimate fine nerve-fibrils forming a network on the 
corneal corpuscle. At h an apparent termination, the ultimate fibrils are 
not brought out in the preparation. 
j'lo, 7. — Subepithelial network of fine nerve-fibrils of the cornea of 
