PREFACE. 



THE increasingly numerous class of learners and junior students in 

 our higher class schools and colleges, as well as of general readers, 

 experience the want of a ' Manual of Scientific Terms ' specially suited 

 for the particular stage of their studies. The present work is an 

 attempt to furnish such Lists of Terms in Botany, Natural History, 

 Chemistry, Anatomy, Medicine, and Veterinary Science, as may be 

 met with in the student's ordinary text-books, and in the current 

 literature of the day. No attempt has been made to supply an 

 exhaustive vocabulary. The selected words have been taken from the 

 more popular text-books ; and the definitions are very generally given 

 in the language employed in them, though often simplified. The 

 Author feels assured that the special end in view, in the preparation of 

 the present work, has been best served by making this legitimate use 

 of such text-books ; for the language and phraseology employed in his 

 text-books must become familiar to the student in the course of his 

 studies. 



The general terms in Botany will be found a pretty exhaustive list. 

 All the names of Orders, and generally Sub- orders, as found in 

 Balfour's Manual of Botany r , have been inserted. Only, however, 

 such names of genera and species are given as have some noteworthy 

 particulars or qualities affirmed of them. The list of Latin Anatomical 

 terms will be found a very full one ; but only such compound terms 

 are given as are deemed most useful, inasmuch as the Latin compounds 

 are now very often laid aside, and their English equivalents employed 

 instead. The terms in Natural History, Chemistry, Medicine, 

 and Veterinary Science, will be found in sufficient numbers to meet 

 ordinary requirements. 



Each term is followed by its re-spelling in simple phonetic characters, 

 and accented, while the syllabication employed is that laid down in 

 the Author's Handy English Word-Book and Complete Dictionary 

 Appendix. 1 - By using these methods, the pronunciation has been indic- 

 ated with very great precision. A system of re-spellings with the view of 

 indicating the correct pronunciation of scientific terms was much needed, 

 for the pronunciation of many of them sadly puzzled most persons, and 



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