Sanders, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) iii. 1889, p. 157.
See Gaskell's important paper, Journ. Physiol. vii. 1886, p. 1.
Herrick, Journ. Neur. ix. p. 153; Cole, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. xxxviii. 1896, p. 631; Id. Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 1898, p. 115, to which an excellent bibliography is appended.
For a discussion of the relations of "end-buds" to the sense of taste in Fishes, see Bateson, Journ. Marine Biol. Ass. i. (N.S.) 1890, p. 225; and Herrick, U.S. Fish Commiss. Bull. 1902, p. 237. In the latter paper a bibliography of the subject is given.
These fibres are included in the visceral sensory or "communis" system by Herrick.