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"CUNNINGHAM MEMOIRS."

No. VII.

CONTRIBUTION TO THE SURFACE ANATOMY OF THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES
BY D. J. CUNNINGHAM, D.Sc. (Dubl.), F.R.S. "WITH A CHAPTER
UPON CRANIO-CEREBRAL TOPOGRAPHY BY VICTOR HORSLEY, M.B.
(Lond.), F.R.S. (Plates I. to VIII.)

[Read April 14, 1890; February 8, 1892.]

INTEODUCTION.

It is strange that the Surface Anatomy of the cerebral hemispheres, offering
as it does a field of work apparently so limited and circumscribed,
should still be found capable of yielding rich results to the earnest investigator
. But such is indeed the case notwithstanding the great advances
that have been made in Cerebral Anatomy during the present century,
and more especially during the last fifty years. The labours of Leuret,
Gratiolet, and Broca in France, Huschka, Bischoff, Pansch, and Ecker
in Germany, and Huxley, Turner, and Flower in this country, have
chiefly contributed to the rapid progress which has been made in this
direction within the time specified. The descriptive anatomy of the
surface of the adult human cerebrum is now very nearly complete ; what
still remains to be done is the establishment of our knowledge upon a
proper morphological basis.

In approaching this aspect of the subject from the phylogenetic point
of view we find an immense amount of material ready for use. The
simian brain has been studied almost as closely as that of man.

royal irish academy.-cunningham memoirs, n'0. vii. [5]