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§218. Under the limitations of time, space and compe- 

 tence, I have now responded to the criticisms of the Anatom- 

 ische Gesellschaft, the German committee, and three individual 

 members thereof. However unfounded, unwise, or even unjust 

 some of those criticisms may appear to mc, I am disposed to 

 believe that they were prompted by a wish to further what the 

 critics regard as the best interests of anatomic science. They 

 will, therefore, I trust, credit me with a similar motive in urging 

 upon them as anatomists, and especially as German anatomists, 

 the earnest consideration of one of the topics discussed in the 

 earlier portion of this paper, viz., Paronymy as opposed to Het- 

 eronymy (§§43.85. e). 



§219. Unfortunately, upon this point (which seemed to 

 me in 1885 so important that it was the subject of my address 

 as president of the American Neurological Association '85, c) I 

 find myself unable as yet to determine what view is held by the 

 German committee. Its secretary has declared (§159, 4) "that 

 each nation can translate the Latin (international) name after its 

 own fashion ;" also (§158, i) that German designations [hetero- 

 nyms] in so far as they are not already established, or so far as 

 they are really necessary, are left to the free choice of the indi- 

 vidual. 



§ 220. Whatever be the real or intended purport of the 

 foregoing, the latest publications of the chairman of the commis- 

 sion ("Gewebelehre"), and of the member who has most fully 

 discussed the subject, contain many and even diverse German 

 vernacular equivalents of the Latin terms recommended by 

 them. The article of Prof. His ('95, a) yields at least a score of 

 such which have no etymologic relation with the Latin terms. 

 It seems to me that, with the exception of Gchirn and possibly 

 a few others (§ 48), the systematic employment of paronyms 

 (§ 46) would greatly facilitate the comprehension of German 

 writings by anatomists of other nationalities, and especially by 

 students, without materially embarassing the Germans them- 

 selves. 



