HO BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



lished by the secretary of the committee (Krause, '91, '94). * 

 The list was published early in the summer of 1895 as a part 

 of an article, " Die Anatomische Nomenclatur," by Prof. 

 Wilhelm His, constituting a " Supplement-Band" to the "Ana- 

 tomische Abtheilung " of the Archiv fur Anatomie und Physi- 

 ologic. Certain principles and certain portions of the list 

 merit high commendation; others, in my opinion, are to be as 

 deeply regretted. Among the least acceptable features are the 

 designations and coordination of the encephalic segments and 

 the assignment of parts thereto; see p. 158. 



3. In the official action of the Gesellschaft and in a recent 

 manual by the president of its committee, Professor Albert von 

 Kolliker, are declarations against the efforts of the American 

 committees which may be due in part to ignorance or misap- 

 prehension of the facts. As chairman of two of the American 

 committees and as secretary of a third, I may not inappro- 

 priately endeavor to remove the impediments to a clearer com- 

 prehension of our position. I particularly desire to free the 

 committees, their individual members, and the associations 

 which they represent, from responsibilities not yet assumed by 

 them. 



4. In the article above mentioned Professor His not only 

 evinces a failure to comprehend the aims of the American 

 committees, but also misrepresents what has been done by me 

 as an individual. Such misrepresentations, unless corrected, 

 might well, especially in Germany, impair the efficiency of my 

 past and present utterances upon Anatomic Nomenclature. A 

 correspondence begun in December, 1895, has failed to adjust 

 our disagreement, and it is most reluctantly submitted to other 

 anatomists. In an experience of thirty-five years this is my 

 first scientific controversy, and I trust it may be the last. 



5. During the quarter of a century since my attention was 

 first drawn to the defects of current anatomic terms my con- 

 victions may be assigned to five different stages, dating respec- 

 tively from 1871, 1880, 1884, 1889, and 1895. Beyond the 



1 These numbers indicate the years of publication. The Bibliography would 

 have occupied undue space in the present volume, but may be found by those 

 interested in the papers named in note i. 



