“…Sensory fibers from joints are thought to carry information about limb position and to enter the dorsal columns proceeding without interruption to the dorsal column nuclei (Brodal, 1948;Gardner, Latimer, and Stilwell, 1949;Skoglund, 1956;Mountcastle and Powell, 1959;Rose and Mountcastle, 1959). However, in a recent study Burgess and Clark (1969a) found relatively few fibers from the cat knee projecting to cervical levels in the dorsal columns with an average 5% or 9 fibers from the posterior, and 7% or 11 fibers from the medial articular nerves.…”