What is the nature of this texture, which enters especially into the composition of the cutaneous chorion? I know not; but I think it has much analogy with the texture of the fibrous system; the following considerations support this analogy. 1st. On the heel, where the dermoid texture has the fibrous form of the irregular ligaments, it would be almost impossible to distinguish it from it, so uniform is the external appearance; it has the same resistance and density; the same sensation is experienced when it is cut with the bistoury. 2d. The dermoid texture becomes yellow and transparent like the fibrous by stewing. 3d. It melts gradually like it into gelatine. 4th. Like it, except the tendons however, it strongly resists maceration. 5th. Sometimes these two textures are identified; for example, the annular ligaments of the wrist evidently send elongations to the neighbouring dermoid texture. 6th. This texture can serve, like the fibrous, for the insertion of muscles; we see it in the face, where many of the fibres of the orbicularis of the lips and the eyelids, and almost all those of the eyebrows, find real tendons in the fibres of the dermoid texture. There is the same arrangement in the cutaneous palmar muscles. All these considerations evidently establish many relations between the dermoid and fibrous textures. Yet they are far from being the same. To be convinced of this it is sufficient to observe how much their mode of sensibility differs, and how different also are their diseases; it seems at first as if there was no analogy between them in this double relation. Yet the line of demarcation is by no means as great as it appears to be. In fact the acute sensibility of the skin is not seated precisely in this white texture, which is interwoven so as to leave between its meshes the spaces of which we have spoken, and which we see especially on the surface adhering to this organ. The experiment mentioned in the article on the mucous system, and in which I irritated the cutaneous organ from within outwards, evidently proves it. It is the surface on which the papillæ are found that especially exhibits this vital property.