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CHAPTER I.

I offered to read a paper this evening, it was my intention to speak on the new anatomical nomenclature offered by a German anatomical society. I not only had in view to concur with those who have already expressed themselves on this new lexicology, and who have said that the committee of anatomists who composed the work mentioned have not done what they claim. I wished to go a step farther and demonstrate in what way the committee could have fulfilled their promise—could have executed their intention.

As we know, the authors decided to give all words in one language—in Latin—and to construct them correctly. In reality most words 1