A comparative study of the brains in British cyprinoids in relation to their habits of feeding, with special reference to the anatomy of the medulla oblongata

Professor G. H. Parker, writing in 1922, remarks that the comparative physiology of taste in Vertebrates is almost an untouched field. It occurred to the writer of this paper, that it would be an instructive research to take a family, such as the carp family, and to study the hind brain of the members of the Cyprinidæ found in British waters, and to correlate their habits of feeding with the developments of the vagal and facial lobes of the medulla oblongata.