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of Simon Januensis or the i • Pandects " of 

 Matheas Sylvaticus. As "Punch" put it 

 the other day in a delightful poetical review 

 of Professor West's volume : x 



Botany relies on Latin ever since Linnaeus' days; 



Biologic nomenclature draws on Greek in count- 

 less ways; 



While in Medicine it is obvious you can never 

 take your oath \ 



What an ailment means exactly if you have n't 

 studied both." 



Let me give a couple of examples. 



Within the narrow compass of the prim- 

 itive cell from which all living beings origi- 

 nate, onomatomania runs riot. The process 

 of mitosis has developed a special literature 

 and language. Dealing not alone with the 

 problems of heredity and of sex , but with the 

 very dynamics of life, the mitotic complex 

 is much more than a simple physiological 

 process, and in the action and interaction 

 of physical forces the cytologist hopes to 



1 The Value of the Classics. Princeton University Press, 191 7. 



