2/0 Journal of Comparative Neurology, 



Vorgehen des letzteren zur Schaffung einer voUig neuen, grossentheils 

 recht fremdartig klingenderi Sprarhe, und auf diesen Boden kann 

 ihm unsere Commission, ohne Verleugnung ihrer historischen Grund- 

 satze, nicht folgen." 



§170. In the following translation of the foregoing extract 

 from the article of Prof. His ('95, 6, 7), besides corrections of 

 supposed typographic errors, and changes in the order of words 

 in accordance with more usual English custom, there are intro- 

 duced in brackets (a) words from the original that might have 

 more than one meaning ; (b) references to sections of the pres- 

 ent article; {c) letters to facilitate the assignment of subsequent 

 commentaries to the special points involved. 



" The anatomical society of Great Britain appointed in 1893 ^^s 

 own commission to adapt our propositions to English needs, ^ and 

 somewhat earlier still (1890), [a\ a society of American anatomists 

 [b\ tried to take up the nomenclature question. The statement of the 

 English committee is not at hand, but the American committee \c\ 

 and its very ardent member, Mr. Wilder \d'\, have already published 

 a series of small papers and brochures.'^ The aims of the American 

 committee are the same as our own, but their methods are essentially 

 [/"] different from those chosen by us. The fundamental idea is the 

 same, that each part should have only a single [Latin] name (§46), 

 and this the most simple poss'ble [g\. But Wilder and his colleagues 

 \/i\ go farther and desire \t\ absolute \j'erlangen lauteA mononyms, i. e., 

 substantives without further additions. They say [/], for example, 

 praecornu and postcornu instead of cornu anterius and cornu posterius ; 

 postcava \}i\ instead of vena cava posterior, with many similar terms. 

 We have already the treatment of encephalic nomenclature by Wilder 

 in accordance with the proposed method, and this first attempt allows 

 us [/] to form an opinion a^^ to the results [;«] to which the preponder- 

 ating \z>orwiegende\ effort toward mononymy leads. On our part we 

 assent fully when the word thalamus alone [/;] takes the p'ace of thal- 

 amus opticus ; we even do not object if, in ordinary communications, 



^ Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, XXVIII [not XXVII, as in original], 

 pp. VII-IX, 1894. 



^ I cite here the chief [hauptsachtichsten'] of Wilder's [e] transmitted \ver- 

 sandten] publications: "The fundamental principles of Anatomical Nomencla- 

 ture," The Medical News, Dec. 19, 1891, 708-710. " Fissural Diagrams," accom- 

 panying " Remarks on the Brain of Chauncey Wright, with Commentaries upon 

 Fissural Diagrams, "yi'Mr. of Nervous and Mental Disease, XVII, 1890, 753-754; 

 Amer. Netirolog. Assoc. Transactions, 1890 " Macroscopic Vocabulary of the 

 Brain, with Synonyms and References ;" presented to the Association of Amer- 

 ican Anatomists, Dec. 29, 1890; O., pp. 13. "American Reports upon Ana- 

 tomical Nomenclature, 1889-1890, with Notes." O., pp. 3, Feb. 5, 1892. 



