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2 are, and it could not be otherwise, Latinized Greek, or they are hybrid words; in some of them, of more than two syllables, we find the syllables alternately from the one and the other language; and finally, as has been shown already, many words are grammatically incorrect.

Any one who gives a glance at this new nomenclature cannot fail to notice barbarisms in large numbers. In this copy which I pass around I have marked some on the first pages. The anatomists have undertaken a thing which was an impossibility—namely, to develop further (fortbilden) a dead language, to treat a dead language as a living one.

Had the committee, however, taken the living Greek for a basis, had they made use of a modern Greek work on anatomy, had they consulted real Greeks, they would have fulfilled all their promises, executed all their intentions, without the arduous labor of seven years and the expenditure of quite a sum of money, as enumerated by them. Indeed, their arduous work would have been unnecessary if the lexicology of our Greek colleagues of to-day—the best imaginable—had been accepted.

To prove the superiority of this really homogeneous, faultless Greek nomenclature, I wrote