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The Term "Archipallium" — a Disclaimer. 



By Gr. EiiLiOT Smith, The University of Manchester. 



Within recent times a considerable number of writers, following 

 the lead of Professor Edinger, have been attributing to me the in- 

 vention of the term "Archipallium". As there is now some danger of 

 this expression being adopted into the already overburdened nomen- 

 clature of cerebral anatomy, it becomes necessary for me to repudiate 

 all responsibility for a term, which I have never used nor even sug- 

 gested, and the reiterated employment of which in various senses by 

 different writers is seriously adding to the confusion that at present 

 reigns in this difficult branch of anatomy. 



The only passage in any of my writings which might lend any 

 appearance of plausibility to the suggestion that I invented this term 

 will be found in a sentence in which I was explaining the meaning of 

 the word "Neopallium" ^) : — "it (i. e, the Neopallium) is only one of 

 the three histological formations which constitute the true pallium (of 

 Reichert); and, as it is the latest of these to reach the height of its 

 development, we may call it the 'new pallium', or, if the hybrid term 

 be permissible, 'neopallium', in contradistinction to the 'old pallium' of 

 the Sauropsida and the earlier Vertebrata, which is chiefly formed 

 of the other two pallial areas." 1 then proceeded to define the latter 

 part of this sentence as referring to the hippocampal formation and 

 part only of the pyriform lobe. 



It might be argued that Professor Edinger and those who have 

 followed him have merely translated my expression 'old pallium' into 

 'Archipallium'. But they have done much more than this: for not 

 only have they not used this expression in the way just defined, but 

 they have also magnified this chance expression into a definite de- 

 scriptive term, such as was never intended by me when I used it, 

 and which is quite superfluous as well as inaccurate. 



1) Notes upon the Natural Subdivision of the Cerebral Hemisphere. 

 Journ. of Anat. and Physiol., Vol. 35, July 1901, p. 431. 



