Wilder, Neural Terms. 239 



§81. Sections i, 2, 3, and 5 constituted the "Preliminary 

 Report of the Committee on Anatomical Nomenclature" of the 

 Association of American Anatomists which was adopted unani- 

 mously by that body Dec. 27, 1889.^ 



§82. Section 4 is substantially identical with the second 

 paragraph of the "Second Preliminary Report" of the same 

 Committee,^ viz., "Your Committee recommend to anatom- 

 ists that, other things being equal, terms consisting of a single 

 word each be employed rather than terms consisting of two or 

 more words." Proceedings for 1895, p. 4. 



§83. Section 4 is also substantially represented in the 

 "Third Preliminary Report of the Committee on Anatomical 

 Nomenclature with special reference to the Brain " ^ which was 

 adopted unanimously by the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, Sept. 2, 1 1 889: — "They agree upon 

 one point, viz., the advantages, other things being equal, of 

 mononyms (single-word terms) over polyonyms (terms consist- 

 ing of two or more words)." The report was published in 

 the Proceedings for 1889, p. 26. 



Sections i, 2, 3, 5, occur verbatim in the Fourth Report of 

 the same committee which was adopted unanimously by the 

 Association Aug. 25, 1890 and printed in the Proceedijigs, p. 20. 



1 The members of the committee at that time were Joseph Leidy, M.D., 

 L.L.D., professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, president ; 

 Harrison Allen, M.D., formerly professor of Physiology in the U. of P.; Frank 

 Baker, M.D , professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department of George. 

 town University ; Thomas B. Stowell, Ph.D., principal of the Potsdam (N. Y.) 

 Normal School; and B. G. Wilder, Secretary. To the committee, at the meet, 

 ing, was added Thomas Dwight, M. D., professor of Anatomy in the Harvard 

 Medical School. The report was published in the History and Records of the 

 Association for i8S8, 1889, 1890, p. 5. 



■■' Upon the death of Dr. Leidy, Dr. Allen succeeded to the chairmanship 

 of the Committee. The place of Dr. Stowell, resigned on account of pressing 

 administrative duties, was filled by the appointment of F. H. Gerrish, M.D., 

 professor of Anatomy in the Medical School of Maine. 



^ The Committee comprised, besides H. Allen, F. Baker, T. B. Stowell, 

 and B. G. Wilder, chairman (see §81, note), Henry F. Osborn, Sc.D., professor 

 of Biology in Columbia University. 



