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3rd. I have, on the contrary, been able to find in several 
species of animals new forms of nerve terminations, which 
constitute intermediaries between the motor termination, as 
it is found in the frog, and the terminal plates. 
I have proved the existence of terminations of this kind in 
the tortoise, the triton, the salamander, the lizard, and the 
snake. In the three first named these terminations are the 
only ones which we are able to find, whilst in the snake and 
the lizard they are found beside the terminal plates, chiefly 
in the young muscular fibres. 
The most simple form of these terminations is shown in 
the tortoise ; nerve-fibres, destitute of myeline, ramify without 
anastomosing, and terminate on the muscular fasciculi, by 
branches which sometimes are smooth, but which most often 
are moniliform, or surrounded by grains deeply coloured by 
the gold. These grains, which are placed around the 
terminal branches, are sometimes so numerous that their 
ensemble presents an appearance similar to that of the ter¬ 
minal arborization of a little motor plate. 
These new forms of nerve terminations all present this 
peculiarity, of only being found on nerves destitute of mye¬ 
line, although these always arise from nerves with myeline. 
In fhe snake these fibres without myeline may even have a 
very long course. 
In the case in which the nerve terminates in the muscle by 
a well-developed plate, never more than a single plate is 
observed for one whole muscular fibre ; when, on the contrary, 
we deal with the terminations which we have just described, 
we generally meet with several nerve terminations on the 
same muscular fibre. And in the snake their number may 
even be from six to seven. 
A more detailed work, accompanied with plates, will 
shortly be published .*—Journal of the Royal Microscojrical 
Society. 
TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MILK SUPPLY. 
At a meeting of the Munich Medical Society last month, 
Professor Bollinger read a paper on Artificial Tuberculosis 
as induced by the consumption of the milk of tuberculous 
cows. In the course of his remarks he endeavoured to de¬ 
monstrate that the milk of such animals has a pre-eminently 
contagious influence, and reproduces the disease in other 
animals experimented on from that point of view, lie 
* M. Tschiriew, in * Comptes Rendus,’ vol. lxxxvii, p. 601. 
