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in my opinion, are to be as deeply regretted. Among the least 

 acceptable features are the designations and coordination of the 

 encephalic segments and the assignment of parts thereto; 

 Table VI. 



§3. In the official action of the Gesellschaft (Part V), and 

 in a recent manual by the president of its committee, Professor 

 Albert von Kolliker are declarations against the efforts of the 

 American committees which may be due in part to ignorance 

 or misapprehension of the facts. As chairman of two of the 

 American committees and as secretary of a third, I may not 

 inappropriately endeavor to remove the impediments to a clear- 

 er comprehension of our position. I particularly desire to free 

 the committees, their individual members, and the associations 

 which they represent, from responsibilities not yet assumed by 

 them. 



§4. In the article above mentioned Professor His not 

 only evinces a failure to comprehend the aims of the Amer- 

 ican committees, but also misrepresents what has been done 

 by me as an individual. Such misrepresentations, unless 

 corrected, might well, especially in Germany, impair the 

 efficiency of my past and present utterances upon An- 

 atomic Nomenclature. A correspondence begun in Decem- 

 ber, 1895, has failed to adjust our disagreement, and it is most 

 reluctantly submiitcd to other anatomists. In an experience of 

 thirty-five years this is my first scientific controversy, and I 

 trust it may be the last. 



§5. During the quarter of a century since my attention 

 was first drawn to the defects of current anatomic terms my 

 convictions may be assigned to five different stages dating re- 

 spectively from 1 87 1, 1880, 1884, 1889 and 1895. Beyond 

 the last I now discern no opportunity for progress except- 

 ing in the elaboration of details. It is my desire to devote the 

 rest of my life to the study of the brain, and this seems to be 

 a fitting time for submitting such statements of principle and 

 suggestions of practice as may facilitate the labors of others 

 upon Anatomic Nomenclature. 



