At the Annual Meeting of this Association held at Liverpool two years ago I had the pleasure of giving an account of the work which I was then doing, on the medullated nerve-fibres of the cortex cerebri, and I endeavoured to demonstrate that a comprehensive study of the form and arrangement of these constituents in the normal adult condition afforded a useful guide to precise localisation of function.

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Chapter 1.-Changes in the Posterior Root Ganglia. Chapter 2.-Changes in the Posterior Nerve Roots. Chapter 3.-Changes in the Peripheral Nerves. CJiapter i.-Changes in the Spinal Cord. Chapter 5.-Herpes Zoster within the territory supplied by the Trigeminal Nerve (Herpes Ophthalmicus, &c). Chapter 6.-Herpes Zoster secondary to implication of the Ganglion in the processes of General Disease (Secondary or Symptomatic Zoster). Chapter 7.-Herpes Zoster arising in the course of Diseases of the Nervous System. Chapter 8.-Changes in the Skin and Glands. § 1.-The Skin. § 2.-The Glands. VOL. XXIII. 23 354 ORIGINAL ARTICLES AND CLINICAL CASES Chapter 9.-Theoretical Considerations. § 1 Zoster an acute Specific Disease of the Nervous System. § 2.-The Nature of the Disease-process. PART II.-THE BEAEING OP THE DISTRIBUTION OP THE ERUPTION IN HERPES ZOSTER ON SENSORY LOCALISATION. Introduction. § 1.-The Numerical Localisation of the Areas marked out by the Eruption. § 2.-Variation in Form of these Areas without Variation in Nerve Supply. S 3.-Variation in Nerve Supply. § i.-Overlap and Interdigitation. PART III.-REPORT ON THE POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OP TWENTY-ONE CASES OF HERPES ZOSTER. 1 to 13.-Cases of Spontaneous Zoster examined at varying intervals of from 3 to 790 days after the eruption appeared. 14 to 17.-Cases of Zoster arising in the course of some disease or injury of the Nervous System. 18 and 19.-Cases of Zoster in which the Gasserian Ganglion was affected. 20 and 21.-Cases of Zoster in which no changes were found after death.

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