26o Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



regard occasional reference to their contents as no breach of 

 confidence. 



§146. Besides the reprint in the " Monatschrift" as an- 

 nounced in his letter of April 15, 1891, Dr. Krause reproduced 

 the "Preliminary Report" of the committee of the Associa- 

 tion of American Anatomists (1889, §81) upon p. 104 of the 

 " Osteologie, Abstimmung I," and upon p. 105 the Table of 

 arterial names from my paper, '85,^. Upon p. 103 are com- 

 ments, translated as follows : 



'' In America also has been formed a committee upon Anatomical 

 Nomenclature. Their proceedings have so far led to the herewith 

 published preliminary recommendations. At the beginning of Osteolo- 

 gy the proposal to apply thoracic instead of dorsal to a region of the 

 vertebral column would be taken into consideration. Wilder further 

 proposes to choose if possible [wo moglich] mononyms instead of poly- 

 onyms, i. e. , to say, K. praccerebellans instead of A cerebelli superior. 

 [This last sentence is most important]. In Wood's Reference Hand- 

 book of the Medical Sciences (VIII, p. 523) are discussed the advan- 

 tages of mononyms (single word terms) over polyonyms. That such 

 proposals cannot be practicable is evident from a glance at the ap- 

 pended list of arteries, or by recalling the binominal system of designa- 

 tion introduced by Linnaeus, which only made possible the develop- 

 ment of descriptive Natural Science." 



§147. Notwithstanding the fact that the implied accusa- 

 tion as to my accepting no terms consisting of more than one 

 word is refuted by the dionym quoted, A. [Artcrici) praecerebel- 

 laris, this self-raised specter of an exclusive dogma of monony- 

 my so haunted the German committee that when their final Re- 

 port was adopted, April 19, 1895, the Record of the Proceed- 

 ings of the Anatomische Gesellschaft [Anatoniischcr Anzdzer, 

 " Erganzungsheft, " 1895, p. 162) contains the following extra- 

 ordinary manifesto (here translated) : 



" On motion of the Nomenclature committee (signed by the 

 members present at Basel, Herren von Kolliker, W. His, Leboucq, 

 Toldt, Fr. Merkel, Schwalbe, Waldeyer, Romiti, von Bardeleben) the 

 anatomical society makes the following declaration : The Anatomische 

 Gesellschaft believes it should take a stand with regard to the endeav- 

 ors of the American Nomenclature Committee. It acknowledges the 

 usefulness of as short names as possible, and the suitableness of some 

 propositions that have some from America. But it protests against the 

 reckless [riicksichtlose] introduction of mononyms, and against the 

 consequent radical remodelling of anatomical language as it has hither- 



