Wilder, New'al Terms. 299 



5), and he was bound to furnish specifications. He had uttered 

 a charge (" Wilder und seine Collegen verlangen lauter Mono- 

 nyme, "§§172, 223, 3) which was either ambiguous or unfounded, 

 and he was bound to explain or withdraw it. While undertak- 

 ing to enumerate my " hauptsachlichste Schrifte," he had failed 

 to mention the principal one, and he was bound to account for 

 either his ignorance of the facts or for his failure to state them. 

 §232. To this Professor His replied under date of Aug. 

 27. His sentiments are expressed in his article (His, '96) 

 of the same date published two months later. The original is 

 readily accessible, but a translation is here appended.^ 



' ' Mr. Burt Wilder and Anatomic Nomenclature. 

 By Wilhelm His. 



Some time after the publication of the Nomenclature adopt- 

 ed by the Anatomical society at Basel, Professor Burt Wilder 

 of Ithaca, N. Y., U. S. A., complained to me by letter concern- 

 ing the manner in which his own efforts at simplification of ana- 

 tomic nomenclature had been mentioned in the introduction to 

 the BNA^ Mr. Wilder clothed his complaints in the form 

 of personal questions and furthermore expressed the desire to 

 publish my answers at the same time with his questions. This 

 is a somewhat inquisitorial proceeding, unusual hitherto in in- 

 tercourse among scholars. In the present case, also, the 

 question is not a personal difference between Mr. Wilder and 

 myself but concerns matters that have had their formal settle- 

 ment through the transactions at Basel. Moreover, the ana- 

 tomical society has stated its views respecting the efforts of the 

 American Nomenclature committee in a special declaration, 

 signed by all the members of the commission^ and by the Pres- 



1 With the exception of this article by Professor His, all of the translations 

 of German extracts and letters in the present paper have been kindly revised by ' 

 my friend Fraulein Berthe J. Bartelmann, Instructor in German at Smith Col- 

 lege, Northampton, Mass. 



^ Explained in a note upon the reverse of the title leaf of His, '95: — '• Als 

 abgekiirtze Bezeichnung der in Basel angenommenen Nomina anatomica wird 

 vorgeschlagen [ BNA]". 



* Proceedings of the Anatomisclie Gcselhchaft, at the ninth meeting at Basel, 

 edited by K. v. Bardeleben, Jena, 1895, P- ^^2. [ It is doubtless through an 

 oversight that this statement is not here qualified by the phrase, "present at 

 Basel," as in the report quoted in §147. Of the eighteen members of the com- 

 mittee, nine were then present ]. 



