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ident of the Society. In concert with my colleagues on the 

 editorial committee, the Messrs. Waldeyer and W, Krause, I 

 have refused consequently to answer the separate questions of 

 Mr. Wilder, and have referred him to the above mentioned 

 declaration. Likewise, I had to refuse a later and unreasonable 

 demand to print in the Archiv fi'ir Anatomie ii. Physiol, his brain- 

 terms together with those of the BNA. My colleagues and 

 I were of the opinion that such a proceeding is not incumbent 

 upon me, and that Mr. Wilder should be asked to present his 

 amendments to the special revision committee of the Anatom- 

 ical Society. 



"A letter just received from Mr. Wilder, very objection- 

 able in its form, shows me however that he believes himself to 

 have been injured by me through the intentional ignoring of 

 his earlier publications reaching back to 1880, as well as his 

 more comprehensive article, "Anatomical Terminology," in 

 the "Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences," VIII, 

 1889. p. 515-533-" 



' ' To that I feel it my duty to offer an explanation. I cited 

 such of Mr. Wilder's papers, with the qualification as the most 

 important, as at that time were at hand. The "Reference 

 Handbook," little known in Germany, has never been in my 

 hands, and by mischance the separate proof-sheets of the article 

 referred to, which Mr. Wilder had sent to Mr, Krause in the 

 year 1891 with a view to the information of our committee at 

 that time, has not reached me. It was, Mr. Krause informs me, 

 lost by one of the members. Indeed, I was not aware of the 

 existence of this treatise when I wrote the introduction to the 

 BNA., and an intentional neglect of the same is out of 

 the question. 



"In order however to avoid all reproach of injustice to- 

 ward Mr. Wilder I present herewith his questions in the form 

 revised by him [§223, 1-6]. Each reader has then the basis 

 for independent judgment. 



Saasgrund, Ct. Wallis, Schweiz, 27 August, 1896." 

 §233. To the letter written at the same time as the fore- 

 going article I replied (Sept. 28) that the plainess and peremp- 

 toriness of my previous communication might have been avoided 

 had my earlier letters received due consideration. There has 

 emanated from Professor His no sign of regret for his omis- 

 sions, his errors, or his delay in their rectification. 



