in others they are
not mentioned at all.

These wedges are two thin strips of cartilage running in front of the
pyramids (pl. XII, 12 and 13) where they are embedded in a number of
glands. Their upper ends terminate in the cartilages of Wrisberg (pl.
XII, 14, 15), and their lower ends gradually dwindle away in the
direction of the vocal ligaments.

Madame Seiler says that they "reach to the middle of the vocal
chords, by which they are enveloped."[I] She comments in the same
book on the fact that German anatomists have been reluctant to
admit the existence of these cartilages; and she adds on page 61,
"It was, therefore, a great satisfaction to me to find them
described under the name of the cuneiform cartilages in Wilson's
'Human Anatomy.'" It must be confessed, however, that Wilson's
description of them is totally different from Madame Seiler's. He
says, "The cuneiform cartilages are two small cylinders of yellow
fibro-cartilage, about seven lines in length and enlarged at each
extremity. _By the lower end or base_ the cartilage is attached _to
the middle of the external surface_ of the arytenoid (the pyramid),
and by its upper extremity forms a prominence in the border of the
aryteno-epiglottidean fold of membrane"[J] (_i.e._, the fold
running up to the lid). According to Seiler, therefore, the wedges
reach from the pyramids to the middle of the vocal ligaments, but
according to Wilson their bases are attached to the middle of the
outer surface of the pyramids, so that they cannot even touch the
vocal ligaments. As Madame Seiler assigns very important functions
to these wedges in the formation of the highest register of the
female voice, and as she quotes Wilson in a manner that must lead
the reader to suppose he gave a similar description to hers of
these cartilages, I have thought it right to give Wilson's
statement in full.

But there is a description of these cartilages by Dr. Witkowski
which corresponds very closely with Madame Seiler's. Speaking of
some of the glands of the voicebox, he says in the work mentioned
before, on p. 12--"They are arranged in the form of an L, whose
vertical branch goes along the arytenoid cartilages (the pyramids),
_the horizontal branch following the direction of the vocal cords_.
_There is often found situated in the midst of