Studies on the Piriform Lobe presents the findings of neuroanatomical research on the complex arrangements of nerve cells, and on the intricate interconnections of their fibrous processes, in the mammalian forebrain. Descriptions of the double- and triple-impregnation variants of the Golgi method, developed by the author in order to improve the staining of nerve cells, are given in full detail. A major contribution in the study of connections, this book may well be the definitive work on the basal surface of the cerebral hemisphere for years to come and will be an invaluable reference aid to anatomists and physiologists concerned with this region.

In its painstaking unraveling and faithful delineation of the complex arrangements of nerve cells and of the intricate interconnection of their fibrous processes, this study of the mammalian forebrain is outstanding. It should be the definitive work on the basal surface of the cerebral hemisphere for years to come and will be an invaluable reference aid to anatomists and physiologists concerned with this region. But there is more here than richness of anatomical information, which incidentally does justice to the complexity of the central nervous system rather than simplifying it. There is a strong aesthetic feeling for the order in nature expressed in the exposition of the forms and articulations of the nervous elements. The illustrations for this monograph are unsurpassed by any I have seen in terms of combining clarity and fidelity of structural detail and a kind of wild, spidery beauty.
-- Jay B. Angevine, Jr., Harvard Medical School