294 Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



cedents therefor, have been" selected from German writings. In 

 the other cases the suggestions may not be always well-founded. 



Part VI. Conrspondeuce with Professor WilJichn His. 



§222. The general occasion for the existence of this Part 

 was stated in the Introduction, §4. The hope, entertained at 

 the time that was written and expressed at a later period (§171), 

 that Prof, His might publicly correct all his errors of omission 

 and commission, has not been realized in his article (just re- 

 ceived in the Anatomischer Anzeiger, XII, 446-448, Nov., 1896, 

 hence the correspondence is most regretfully submitted. The 

 only changes consist in the omission of unessential paragraphs, 

 and in the addition of notes, or of words in brackets. 



§223. From the writer to Prof. His, Dec. 3, 1895. 



Prof. W. His, Dear Sir : — Not until a week ago was able I to read 

 your article in the Archiv f. Anatomie etc., 1895, *' Die anatomische 

 Nomenclatur," wherein, on pages 6 and 7, you do me the honor to 

 discuss my views especially with reference to encephalic terms. 



It is my intention to present the subject at the coming meeting of 

 the Association of American Anatomists, on the 26th of this month, 

 and before doing so I desire to obtain from you answers to the sub- 

 joined queries. It will be a favor to me if the answers, or as many 

 as possible of them, can reach me before the meeting, and it will be 

 an advantage to our discussions if you permit them to be made 

 public. 



Regretting to differ with you, and to ask you to perhaps incon- 

 venience yourself in order to reach me in season, I have the honor to 

 remain, Very respectfully yours, 



Burt G. Wilder. 



1. I see no reference to the writings of Richard Owen or Pye 

 Smith. The latter {Jour, of Anat. and Physiology, Oct. 1877) pub- 

 lished an article of 22 pages and insisted upon the sufficiency o{ thala- 

 mus which you concede. The former introduced /'^^sv'raz'a d^v^di precava 

 and ("Anat of Vertebrates," III p. 136) gives a list of fissures, all 

 the names being mononyms and some {callosal, supercallosal and sub- 

 frontat) apparently unobjectionable. Why were these not included in 



the column of synonyms by " various authors" [in the protocols of 

 the committee ? §178, 3]. 



2. Excepting some compounds oiencephalon, nearly all the mono- 

 nyms upon your list of encephalic terms, about twenty-five in num- 

 ber, had already been selected and adopted by me. Was not this 



