SIXTH LECTURE. 



SOME NEURAL TERMS.i 



BURT G. WILDER. 



Five conditions have led to the preparation of this lecture. 



1. The American Neurological Association, at its session in 

 Philadelphia, June 5, 1896, unanimously adopted the Report 

 of the Committee on Neuronymy embodying the previous 

 reports of three other American committees and extending the 

 list of Latin terms recommended from eleven to forty; see 

 p. 126. 



2. The Anatomische Gesellschaft, at its session in Basel, 

 April 19, 1895, adopted the Report of its Committee on Ana- 

 tomische Nomenclatur comprising a list of Latin names for all 

 the visible parts of the human body, and provided for its revi- 

 sion at intervals of three years. Presumably, the Gesellschaft 

 sanctioned the declarations of principles which had been pub- 



1 Delivered August 3, 1896. A fuller discussion of the subject occurs in the 

 article " Neural Terms, International and National," Journal of Comparative 

 Neurology, VI, December, 1896, pp. 216-352, including seven tables. That article 

 comprises nine parts as follows : 



I. Definitions of certain terms employed in the discussion of Anatomic No- 

 menclature. II. Stages of the writer's terminologic progress. III. Report of 

 the Committee on Neuronymy of the American Neurological Association, with 

 commentaries. IV. Discussion of the differences between certain terms in that 

 report and those adopted by the Anatomische Gesellschaft. V. Reply to criti- 

 cisms offered by the Anatomische Gesellschaft and by its members. VI. Corre- 

 spondence with Prof. Wilhelm His. VII. List of the neural terms adopted 

 by the Anatomische Gesellschaft and of those now preferred by the writer. VIII. 

 Concluding remarks. IX. Bibliography. 



Parts VII-IX have also been reprinted under the title " List of Neural Terms, 

 with Comments and Bibliography." Copies of the entire article or of the " List " 

 may be obtained from Henry Cowell, McGraw Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 



