In the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang, the island of Reil in
the fissure of Sylvius is generally--at least, according to my
experience--overlapped by the operculum, although there are instances
in which this is not the case. In these three anthropoids, as Bastian
justly observes, the fissure of Sylvius is much less horizontal than
in man, and occupies a position more like that which it takes in the
black sea-cat monkey, the wanderers, and other macacas. In the gorilla
its direction is more horizontal than in the two other species of
anthropoids. The central fissure, termed fissure of Rolando, is very
marked, especially in the chimpanzee (Fig. 57 R); but it may also be
easily traced in other species of anthropoids (Fig. 58, II., 56, R).
The so-called simian fissure between the parietal and occipital lobes
of the cerebrum (Meynart’s elongated external occipital fissure),
presented in Fig. 58 _s c_, is very marked in the chimpanzee (Fig. 57,
_d_). The frontal lobes of the gorilla brain are high, while those of
the chimpanzee are short and low. It is said that those of the orang,
which are high and short, terminate in a beak-shaped curvature, but
this is not invariably the case.
[Illustration:
Fig. 60.--Longitudinal section of a gorilla’s brain (Bola and
Pansch). _s.cm_, Colloso marginal fissure. _f, p_, Internal
parieto-occipital fissure. _f, c_, Calcarine fissure, the
posterior part of the hippocampal fissure.
]
In the anthropoids we have been considering, and also in several of
the lower species of apes, there are three other fissures of less
importance in addition to those we have mentioned, namely, the fissure
parallel to the fissure of Sylvius, and placed behind it, the _corpus
callosum_ fissure, placed immediately above the _corpus callosum_ on
the inner side of the hemisphere of the cerebrum, and the calcarine
fissure (_Fissura calcarina_) (Fig. 60). The latter ends near the point
of junction of the inner and lower surfaces of the posterior division
of the hemisphere. The upper temporal convolution, termed by several
anatomists _Gyrus supramarginalis_, is said by Gratiolet to be absent
in anthropoids; but Rolleston, Bastian, and myself have all found it
well developed[82] (Fig. 56, orang, and Fig. 58, gorilla).
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