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already familiar, or which jvere intelligible without an intimate 

 acquaintance with other modern languages than his own. 



§62. With a view to reconcile these two opposing ten- 

 dencies I formulated ('85, c) the distinction between heteronyms 

 (§ 43) and paronyms (§ 44)/ and proposed that, with few ex- 

 ceptions (§ 48) heteronyms should be discarded in favor of 

 paronyms. " Since each paronym suggests the original Latin 

 name, the latter forms a bond of intelligence between writers 

 and readers of different nationalities." 



§63. The international advantages of paronyms over het- 

 eronyms have been distinctly recognized, and the principle in- 

 dorsed, by the American branch of the International Committee 

 of Biological Nomenclature, and by the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science (Proceedings, 1892, 233). 



§64, That mononyms are more readily and uniformly 

 paronymized than polyonyms, and dionyms than other polyo- 

 nyms, has been already mentioned (§ 47) and is indeed self- 

 evident. 



§65. IV. 1889-1894. But the recognition of the nature 

 and causes of neuronymic hypertrophy and deformity, and 

 even the formulation of general principles of relief, still left un- 

 accomplished the necessary operations of excision and correc- 

 tion. My inability to decide in season which should be re- 

 garded as l/ie names, and which as merely synonyms, was one 

 of the reasons for not accepting the invitation of Dr. Foster to 

 frame the definitions in the dictionary above mentioned. Par- 

 tial lists had been prepared in connection with the " Anatomi- 

 cal Technology " (W. & G., '82, 436-438) and the "Cartwright 

 Lectures " ('84, a). The latter list ('84, I?) contained 115 names 

 exclusive of the fissures and gyres and blood vessels. In con- 

 nection with a paper, "Owen's Nomenclature of the Brain" 

 ('90, ^), there was presented to the Association of American 

 Anatomists a " Macroscopic Vocabulary " of about 200 names, 



^ The history of the process, and the names of my present and former col- 

 leagues who so materially assisted me, are given in several publications ('85, c; 

 W. &G., '86; '89). 



