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component. Consequently suggestions were made to correct the word 

 to mammology if not mammalology. Others would compound a name 

 of two Greek constituents (drjp, a wild beast, and Xoyoz). Therology 

 was the result. Dr. John D. Godman, in his ' American Natural His- 

 tory' (1824), entitled the first (and only published part) 'Mastology,' 

 thus borrowing a word first used by Desmarest. The writer of the 

 long article on mammalia for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1819) 

 coined the word Mazology {'flavor;, a breast, and X6yo<z, discourse'). 

 None of these words has found general admission into the language. 

 Notwithstanding the philological objections, mammalogy of late years 

 has been generally accepted and general consensus establishes its right 

 of being. 



I have derived the terminal form of words ending in -ology from 

 Xbyot; rather than Xoy'ta, which latter has sometimes been given, because 

 the only Greek word Xoyla (occurring in the first Epistle to the Corin- 

 thians, 16: 1, 2) means 'a, collection for the poor,' and therefore Xoyca 

 is misleading and has misled several to my knowledge. The Greek 

 words dikologia, etymologia, philologia and theologia of course are good 

 precedents for the English words ending in -ology and consequently 

 we may use, as a suffix, -Xoyla (but not simply Xoyia) in explanation of 

 the etymology. 



Supplementary Note. 



While reading the proof of the preceding article I found reason to 

 fear that, through my desire to be concise and not discursive, I might 

 give a misleading idea of the originality of Linnaeus. The concept of 

 the class of Mammals did not spring Minerva-like from the head of the 

 Swede, but the great English naturalist of the seventeenth century 

 (John Ray), to whom Linnaeus owed so much, was suggestive in this 

 as in other cases. Ray, in his ' Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quad- 

 rupedum et Serpentini Generis' (1693, p. 53), gave an 'Animalium 

 Tabula generalis' in which he bracketed the terrestrial or quadruped 

 mammals with the aquatic as 'Vivipara,' and contrasted them with the 

 'Ovipara' or 'Aves.' The Vivipara are exactly coextensive with Mam- 

 malia but the word vivipara was used as an adjective and not as a noun. 

 Linnaeus did not catch up with this concept till 1758 when he advanced 

 beyond it by recognizing the group as a class and giving it an apt name. 

 To go farther into details is tempting, but would be out of place here. 



