No. 396.] CORRESPONDENCE. 987 
W. A. Snow, instructor in entomology in Leland Stanford University, 
drowned in the harbor of San Francisco, October ro. — James 
Simpson, curator of the Anatomical Museum of the University of 
Edinburgh. — Dr. Luther Dana Woodbridge, professor of anatomy 
in Williams College, November 3, aged 49. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
To the Editor American Naturalist : 
Sir, — 7n re Mesenchyme vs. Mesenchyma permit me to differ for 
the following reasons: 
1. Mesenchyme is shorter and hence better. 
2. According to thé Standard Dictionary it is the preferred form. 
3. It is certainly formed on the analogy of a long list of common 
scientific names in our language, vertebrate from Vertebrata. 
4. It is a more natural English form. 
5. Do you use the word “chyme”? May I not claim that “it 
has good usage”? Why then is mesenchyme a “foreign hybrid” ? 
Very cordially yours, 
Henry B. Warp. 
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, 
Oct. 12, 1899. 
