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cortex\ Cerebellocortex (for cortex cerebelli or cerebellar cortex}, 

 Commissure habenarum (for supracommissura), Mediventricle 

 (for <' third ventricle "), Lativentricle (for "lateral ventricle "), 

 Procele (for paracele), Coele and its compounds (for cele and its 

 compounds). 



If the foregoing list of my verbifactive sins appears damag- 

 ingly large, let the critics scan their own records with equal 

 closeness; I have at least been consistent within the limits of 

 a single publication. 



Acknowledgments. I have had more or less frequent con- 

 ference or correspondence with nearly all the members of the 

 four committees named elsewhere and with other scientific or 

 literary authorities. Only by investigators, teachers, and prac- 

 titioners equally eminent, preoccupied, and familiar with cur- 

 rent terminology, can it be wholly realized what it meant for 

 these men to give prompt and full attention to queries and 

 propositions that threatened to disturb the verbal basis of their 

 intercommunications. Reviewing the experience, I am amazed 

 at the uniform readiness and kindliness of the responses, 1 and 

 can truly say that, even when not wholly or directly encourag- 

 ing, they were always fruitful. To four men are due particular 

 acknowledgments. 



As student (1873-77), as assistant (1875-80), as colleague 

 (since 1880), and as collaborator (Anatomical Technology, 1880 

 92 ; Anatomical Terminology, 1888-89), Simon H. Gage has 

 been constantly and preeminently helpful. 



Edward C. Spitzka, one of the most learned, progressive, 

 and productive American neuro-anatomists, generously enter- 

 tained the new terms ('81), adopted some, and for others pro- 

 posed improvements; nay, this undaunted upholder of an 

 unpopular opinion in a period of intense political excitement 2 

 went so far as to say that some of my suggestions had been 

 long in his own mind, but that he had " lacked the courage to 



1 Their nature made it the easier to meet with equanimity the few attempts to 

 check terminologic progress by ridicule. For the response to one of these, see 

 my paper, " The Paroccipital Fissure. Letter to the Editor." N. Y. Med. Record, 

 Oct. 2, 1886, pp. 389, 390. 



2 As an expert at the trial of Guiteau he held the mental constitution of the 

 assassin to be abnormal ; see Alienist and Neurologist, 1883, April, et seq. 



