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ABSTRACT As material for the study of functional connexions within a central nervous system, invertebrates with ganglionated nerve cords appear to offer advantages absent elsewhere. In such animals it should be possible to lead off from the axons which transmit the information from one synaptic region to another at all levels in the connectives, provided there are no cells or synapses in these connectives. In the crayfish, it has been previously shown that such an analysis is indeed possible, at the level between the ‘brain ‘and the remainder of the ventral cord. It was found (Wiersma, Ripley in the present paper their physiological properties will be discussed with special reference to the evidence they provide for the existence of these three possible types of integration. The results will show that the one in which a single interneurone collects impulses from different ganglia (scheme C of Fig. 1) is certainly realized in many of these interneurones.
Hughes et al. (Wed,) studied this question.