Wilder, Neural Terms. 257 



parison with the second and third columns will show that in 

 most cases our office was merely to disencumber the essential 

 elements of prexisting terms from superfluous accessories. 



Part V. Reply to the Criticisms offered by the AnatomiscJie 

 Gesellschaft or its Member's upon the Tenninologic Proposi- 

 tions or Usage of American Committees or Individuals. 



§135. In the introduction to this article (§3) it is inti- 

 mated that certain " German declarations against the efforts of 

 the American committees may be due in part to ignorance or 

 misapprehension of the facts." How far these mental condi- 

 tions might have been avoided may be judged from the follow- 

 ing statements. 



§136. As mentioned in Part II, even if my earlier formu- 

 lation of principles and specific suggestions (i 871 -1879) be dis- 

 regarded, in and after 1880 papers referring directly to anatomic 

 or neurologic nomenclature were published in periodicals pre- 

 sumably accessible to anatomists everywhere.^ The appoint- 

 ments of the committees of the American Neurological Associ- 

 ation and of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science (§§80-84) were duly announced in medical and scientific 

 journals, and in the transactions of the two associations. A 

 brief preliminary report of the A. A. A. S. committee was 

 printed in the Pivceedings of the Association for 1886 (p. 56). 



§137. The " Nomenclatur Commission " of the Anatom- 

 ische Gesellschaft was appointed in 1889. Primarily German 

 (His, '95, 3), additions were made in the following year from 

 England, France and Italy.^ According to His ('95, 6, 7) co- 

 operation was also asked from Thane, Duval and Testut. Al- 

 though the Anatomische Gesellschaft contains some American 



> To what extent reprints of those papers were sent to German anatomists 

 at that time, lam unable to determine. 



^ Its final composition was as follows : A. von Kolliker, president; O. Hert- 

 wig, W. His, Kollman, Merkel, Schwalbe, Toldt, Waldeyer, Bardeleben, Henke, 

 von Mihalkovics, Riidinger, von KupfFer, Turner, Cunningham, Leboucq, 

 Romiti, and W. Krause, secretary. This list was furnished me by th? 

 secretary in April, 1892. 



