• VOLUME I General Principles 1: Basic Plan of the Nervous System 2: Research Methods and Major Results 3: Neurons: Size and General Morphology 4: The Connections and Comparative Morphology of Neurons 5: Functional Implications of Neuronal Morphology and Connections 6: Fine Structure of the Neuron 7: Variations in the Structure and Shape of Neurons Under Normal and Pathological Conditions and the Functional Implications of Such Variations 8: Neuroglia 9: Nerve Fibers Spinal Cord 10: The Spinal Cord 11: Structure of Spinal White Matter 12: Structure of the Gray Matter 13: Commissural and Funicular Neurons 14: Arrangement of Funicular Neurons in Various Parts of the Gray Matter 15: Extraspinal Neurons with an Axon in the Cord 16: The Peripheral Endings of Spinal Ganglion Cells 17: The Central Process of Spinal Ganglion Cells 18: Glia of the Spinal Gray Matter 19: Functional Implications Arising From New Concepts About the Structure of the Spinal Cord 20: Comparative Histology of the Spinal Cord 21: Histogenesis of the Spinal Cord and Spinal Ganglia Medulla and Pons 22: The Medulla 23: Internal Structure of the Medulla 24: General Features of the Medulla Hypoglossal Nucleus 25: The Accessory Spinal or XIth Cranial Nerve 26: The Vagus and Glossopharyngeal or IXth and Xth Cranial Nerves 27: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Vestibular Nerve 28: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Cochlear Branch or Nerve 29: The Facial or VIIth Cranial Nerve 30: The Abducens or VIth Cranial Nerve 31: The Trigeminal or Vth Cranial Nerve 32: Neuronal Pathways of the Medulla and Associated Nuclei 33: Medullary Extension of the Spinal Ventral Funiculus 34: The Lateral Funiculus and Its Medullary Nuclei 35: Intrinsic Pathways and Nuclei of the Medulla 36: The Pons VOLUME II The Cerebellum 1: The Cerebellar Cortex 2: The Granular Layer 3: Cerebellar White Matter and Glia 4: Comparative Histology of the Cerebellar Cortex 5: Cerebellar Histogenesis 6: Deep Cerebellar Nuclei 7: Cerebellar Peduncles The Midbrain 8: The Inferior Colliculus 9: The Superior Colliculus 10: The Optic Lobe of Lower Vertebrates 11: The Tegmental or Intermediate Region of the Midbrain 12: Tegmental Region (Continued) 13: Ventral Regions of the Midbrain Diencephalon 14: The Thalamus and Its Nuclei 15: Visual Apparatus Retina or Receptor Organ for Visual Stimuli 16: The Retina (Continued): The Retina of Other Vertebrates 17: The Optic Nerve, Chiasm, and Tract 18: The Lateral Geniculate Body and Pulvinar 19: Thalamus (Continued) 20: Thalamus (Continued): Medial Nuclei 21: Hypothalamic Region and Its Nuclei 22: Diencephalon (Continued) 23: The Corpus Striatum Cerebral Cortex 24: General Structure of the Cerebral Cortex 25: Regions of the Cerebral Cortex: Visual Cortex 26: Auditory Cortex 27: Motor or Somatosensory-Motor Cortex 28: Olfactory Apparatus: Olfactory Mucosa and Olfactory Bulb or First-Order Olfactory Centers 29: Secondary and Tertiary Olfactory Centers 30: Pathways From the Temporal Olfactory Cortex 31: Fourth-Order Olfactory Areas Ammon's Horn and the Dentate Gyrus 32: Afferent and Efferent Projections of Ammon's Horn and the Dentate Gyrus 33: Cingulate Cortex and Cingulum 34: Comparative Structure of the Cerebral Cortex 35: Histogenesis of the Cerebral Cortex 36: Structure-Function Relationships in the Cortex Autonomic Nervous System 37: Autonomic Nervous System

Now that Cajal's great French classic from 1911 is available in a fine, fluent English translation, it should attract many to the text; not only to look at the illustrations and beyond to the passionately detailed descriptions, but also to savour the picturesque, and often belligerent, style in which Cajal describes the nervous system and some of its discoverers ... it is a book in which to gain an intimate acquaintance with an extraordinarily gifted, dedicated and original mind whose total involvement with the discovery, details and development of neurohistology and, perhaps most importantly, its functional interpretation, is communicated with clarity and excitement.