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AS the cerebellum is well represented in the lowest o vertebrates and undergoes relatively little change in form with the higher development of the rest of the brain, it must be regarded as a fundamental structure of the vertebrate nervous system. This may be one of the reasons that much interest has centred in its study arid in the attempt to define its functions in exact physiological terms. Though Willis (Oxford, 1660) noted the intimate connection between the cerebellum and pons Varolii, and recognised that the trapezial fibres of the latter are a cerebellar and not a cerebral system, and though Majendie laid the first foundations of our knowledge of its functions, it has only been of recent years that we have gained, chiefly from the work of Luciani and the workers who followed him, satisfactory insight into its anatomy and physiology.
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The Cerebellum: Its Relation to Spatial Orientation and Locomotion 1 . Nature 72, 389–390 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072389a0
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