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without some new light being thrown upon the 

 subject ; particularly by pointing out and giving 

 names to many parts never before noticed. 



In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the bar- 

 barism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, 

 they would beg to call the Orismology of the 

 science, they have endeavoured to introduce 

 throughout a greater degree of precision and con- 

 cinnity dividing it into general and partial Oris- 

 mology ; under the former head defining such 

 terms as relate to Substance, Resistance, Density, 

 Proportion, Figure, Form, Superficies, (under 

 which are introduced Sculpture, Clothing, Colour, 

 &c.) Margin, Termination, Incision, Ramification, 

 Division, Direction, Situation, Connection, Arms, 

 &c. ; and under the latter those that relate to the 

 body and its parts and members, considered in its 

 great subdivisions of Head, Trunk, and Abdomen. 

 In short, they may rest their claim of at least aiming 

 at considerable improvement in this department 

 upon the great number of new terms, and altera- 

 tions of old ones, which they have introduced in 

 external Anatomy alone falling little short of 150. 

 If it should be thought by any one that they have 

 made too many changes, they would remind him 

 of the advice of Bergman to Morveau, when re- 

 forming the nomenclature of Chemistry, the 

 soundness of which Dugald Stewart has recog- 



