XXXVUl 
KEPORT— 1847. 
those the functions of which it is the object of the comparative anatomist to 
elucidate. An elaborate and valuable contribution with this aim was coro- 
municated by Dr. Carpenter to the Physiological Section of this Association, 
at us meeting at Southampton; having for its subject the homologies and 
tunctions of the parts of the encephalon. 
It is needless to dwell on the obvious necessity of the knowledge of the 
essential nature,—signthed by the true ilefiiiition and name—of each part of 
reasoning on the phv.ioi^cal 
3don ba r of such part m the lower animals. The liriUshA*. 
rjZhn inVrv ^ manifested its appreciation of the value and necesd.vof 
Jhe irmoZ eTof pl.y«iology by calling for the Kcporf on 
is itself * *1 vertebrate skeleton ; and that Keport, just publiilid, 
ciation, it l,a« been treated by the Crvier"‘f F 
tZfr of «nimal bodies, both iV^tbTir 
during the period which liua specially marked in this country 
Association by Professor Owen communication to the British 
of recent and fossiUeeth. ‘nto the intinmte structure 
-ien,onstra.od the cens.ancyof »el|. 
ciea of a„i..,, (bj wV'Id.^Slet/a S '>-'»,•««-» -f -ch .pe- 
many instances, by examination IT. t’^ deterniined, in 
servers have been stimulated irZsiie thp ^ 
diversities of structure of the tissues nf ,? minute inquiries into the 
example. J,.,ve been most ably anTL°/‘‘r n -nqniries, for 
m reference to the microscopic ^ i>r. Carpenter 
naturalist, arid ti,e nZlf ^krlls; and the 
2eal and the skill of that cm.inont Shvs?nl indebted to the 
rZ Assochifc *■« «‘mthtr sense, all 
RenZM wiiJi whicli ®‘*mnl:.fing his inqui- 
rZ t" accompanied in he tJIZ* of Dr. Carpenter’s 
subject of Dr testaceous m * '^“'"'""n'cation in 1838 , 
is due chiefly lo^ Purk' *^^*‘^‘^*** discoveries by tlin », 
confirmed bv r> «» Valentin and ’ t • » *?'*‘^*‘°scope is that which 
fluids Z intif;,- to Z imn'" ! “* ^een 
extremely niimue i P^'^formed by Uig vil motion of 
n>°ve„e,f4"r“J™* - which “f 
structure of the nervous 
