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grog (Jor grograni), photo {^pr photograph), stereo (for stereotype), 

 and consols ;(for consolidated annuities),^ I ventured ('84, U) to 

 drop the sign of abbreviation and to use these verba decaiidata 

 as real words. Their withdrawal a year afterward ('85^, 

 354) may have been due partly to the horror of some anatom- 

 ic friends in whose eyes they were needless and indefensible 

 "nicknames;" but I was influenced mainly by the revulsion 

 attendant upon the formulation of the principle of paronymy 

 whereby the s\\ovX.&r pjvsejicephal, etc., were legitimized. Yet 

 I anticipate the eventual rehabilitation of the abridged forms. 



§75. Acknowledgements. — I have had more or less fre- 

 quent conference or correspondence with nearly all the members 

 of the four committees named elsewhere (§§80-84) ^"^ with 

 other scientific or literary authorities. Only by investigators, 

 teachers, and practitioners equally eminent, preoccupied, and fa- 

 miliar with current terminology, can it be wholly realized what it 

 meant for these men to give prompt and full attention to que- 

 ries and propositions that threatened to disturb the verbal basis 

 of their intercommunications. Reviewing the experience, I am 

 arflazed at the uniform readiness and kindliness of the responses^ 

 and can truly say that even when not wholly or directly encour- 

 aging they were always fruitful. To four men are due par- 

 ticular acknowledgements. 



^yG. As student (1873-1877), as assistant (1875-1880), as 

 colleague (since 1880) and as collaborator ("Anatomical Tech- 

 nology," 1880-1892; " Anatomical Terminology," 1888- 1889) 

 Simon H. Gage has been constantly and preeminently helpful. 



%,77. Edward C. Spitzka (§ 80, note) one of the most 

 learned, progressive and productive American neuro-anatomists, 

 generously entertained the new terms ('81), adopted some, and 

 for others proposed improvements ; nay, this undaunted up- 

 holder of an unpopular opinion in a period of intense political 



'The last case to meet my eye is hippos for hippopotami (The A'a/ion), 1896; 

 verily "the slang of one age may become the purism of the next." 



'Their nature made it the easier to meet with equanimity the few attempts 

 to check terminologic progress by ridicule. For the response to one of these 

 see my paper '86,/. 



