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slang, the language of the street hoodlum 

 and of his deliberate imitator, the college 

 'sport' ; and, finally, in science, for the 

 larger part of the current nomenclature of 

 the brain. As scholarly anatomists it is at 

 once our prerogative and our duty to scru- 

 tinize and reflect, and to deal with the 

 language of our science in the same spirit 

 and with the same discrimination that we 

 maintain in regard to the parts of the body 

 and the generalizations concerning them. 



It may be that a crisis has been reached ; 

 that this is the turning-point. If defeat 

 awaits us, let there be no doubt as to my 

 attitude. Let me be regarded as the chief 

 offender, and let the group of terms advo- 

 cated by me be derided as ' Wilder's Scien- 

 tific Volapiik.' But if, rather, despite errors 

 and reverse, we are in the end to overcome 

 inertia and prejudice, then I trust that the 

 labors and sacrifices of so many English- 

 speaking anatomists for the simplification 

 of anatomic nomenclature may be recog- 

 nized in the designation : ' The Anglo- 

 American System.' 



Indeed, whatever be the fate of any par- 

 ticular set of terms, of this I am assured : 

 that system will ultimately prevail which 

 is approved and used by anatomists of the 

 English-speaking race — the composite, all- 

 absorbing, expanding, dominating race of 

 the future. 



In no spirit of national self-glorification, 

 much less with any personal animosity, but 

 rather as a friendly injunction to prepare 

 for the inevitable, I shall not object if por- 

 tions of this address (for all of which, be it 

 understood, I alone am responsible) are in- 

 terpreted as a declaration of intellectual 

 independence ; as a claim for the recogni- 

 tion of what is done in England and Amer- 

 ica upon the basis of its intrinsic value ; 

 and as a protest against an indifference 

 which in some instances has seemed to lack 

 even that semblance of consideration which 

 at least was commonly maintained during 



the manifestation, a generation ago, of what 

 au American scholar characterized as a 

 ' certain condescension observable among 

 foreigners.' 



Let me conclude with a passage in more 

 cheerful vein: 



'* When the first little wave of the rising 

 tide comes creeping up the shore the sun 

 derides her, and the dry sand drinks her, 

 and her frightened sisters pull her back- 

 ward, and yet again she escapes; and 

 still her expostulating sisters cling to her 

 skirts, and the rabble of waves behind 

 cry out against her boldness, and all the 

 depths of the ocean seem rising to drag her 

 down. And now the second rank of waves, 

 who would have died of shame at being the 

 first, have unwillingly passed the earlier 

 mark of the little wave that led them ; and 

 now you may float in your ship, for lo ! the 

 tide is full. So it is with all systems of re- 

 form ; though the pioneers be derided, the 

 great needs of humanity behind push on to 

 triumphant acquisition of the new order of 

 things." 



Burt G. Wilder. 



Cornell University. 



TEE BREEDING OF ANI3IALS AT WOODS 



HOLE BUSING TEE iMONTH OF SEP- 



TEMBER, 1898. 



With the month of September the record 

 of the bi-eeding habits of the summer fauna 

 practically closes. Very few of the species 

 continue to breed into October. The auf- 

 trieb, though less rich in species, is at the 

 beginning of the month similar to that of 

 late August, but after the first week the 

 number of forms steadily decreases. It 

 consists for the most part of crustacean 

 larvffi, the bulk of the material being brachy- 

 uran and eupagurid. 



The temperature of the water was con- 

 stant at 72° F. for the first week. It then 

 fell steadily until the 25th, when it reached 

 65° F., and remained at this point until the 



