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A preliminary communication recording the results of the following investigation, appeared in the Monatsb. d. k. Akad. der Wissensch. zu Berlin, of Dec. 6, 1877. The Memoir itself was published in extenso in German in the Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie, 1878, and is here published in English on behalf of Dr Stirling.