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Herrick CJ. The Brain of the Tiger Salamander (1948) The University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

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This historic 1948 book by Herrick describes the development of the lizard, tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum). Modern Notes: lizard \| neural

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The Brain of the Tiger Salamander

Ambystoma tigrinum

By C. Judson Herrick

Professor Emeritus of Neurology The University of Chicago

The University Of Chicago Press Chicago • Illinois

Preface

This work reports the results of a search, extending over fifty years, for the fundamental plan of the vertebrate nervous system as revealed in generalized form in the amphibians. In these small brains we find a simplified arrangement of nerve cells and fibers with a pattern of structural organization, the main features of which are common to all vertebrates. From this primitive and relatively unspecialized web of tissue it is possible to follow the successive steps in progressive elaboration as the series of animals from salamanders to men is passed in review.

This is a record of personal observation, not a compilation of the literature. It is presented in two parts, which differ in content and method of treatment of the data.

The first part gives a general over-all view of the structure without details, followed by physiological interpretation and discussion of some general principles of embryologic and phylogenetic morphogenesis. This part, with the accompanying illustrations, can be read independently of the histological details recorded in the second part.

The second part presents the evidence upon which conclusions are based, drawn from my own previously published descriptions, to which references are given, together with considerable new material. This part is designed for specialists in comparative neurology and as a guide for physiological experiments. The second part supplements the first, to which the reader must make frequent reference.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to many colleagues for generous assistance and criticism, and particularly to Doctors Elizabeth C. Crosby, Davenport Hooker, Olof Larsell, Gerhardt von Bonin, Ernst Scharrer, and W. T. Dempster. In the preparation of the manuscript invaluable help was given by Miss Anna Seaburg.

I am indebted to Dr. Paul G. Roofe for permission to copy one of his pictures, shown here as figure 86A. The American Museum of Natural History, New York, generously furnished the two photographs, taken from life, shown at the bottom of the Frontispiece. These are copyrighted by the Museum. One of them has been previously published by the Macmillan Company in Hegner's Parade of the Animal Kingdom (p. 289). The photograph of the midlarval stage was kindly suppHed by Professor Sherman C. Bishop of the University of Rochester. The upper figure is from G. K. Noble's Biology of the Amphibia, courtesy of the McGraw-Hill Book Company (copyrighted, 1931). Figures 1, 2C, and 86-113 are reproductions of figures previously published by the author in the Journal of Comparative Neurology and used here by courtesy of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, publishers of that Journal. The other figures are originals prepared for this work.

Money for the prosecution of the work and for financing its publication was liberally supplied by the Dr. Wallace C. and Clara A. Abbott Memorial Fund of the University of Chicago.

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The Brain of the Tiger Salamander

Preface

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