This is a fitting place to make, in passing, a remark by means of which I should like to check a growing evil while there is yet time. That Latin has ceased to be the language of all scientific investigations has the disadvantage that there is no longer an immediately common scientific literature for the whole of Europe, but national literatures. And thus every scholar is primarily limited to a much smaller public, and moreover to a public hampered with national points of view and prejudices. Then he must now learn the four principal European languages, as well as the two ancient languages. In this it will be a great assistance to him that the _termini technici_ of all sciences (with the exception of mineralogy) are, as an inheritance from our predecessors, Latin or Greek. Therefore all nations wisely retain these. Only the Germans have hit upon the unfortunate idea of wishing to Germanise the _termini technici_ of all the sciences. This has two great disadvantages. First, the foreign and also the German scholar is obliged to learn all the technical terms of his science twice, which, when there are many—for example, in Anatomy—is an incredibly tiresome and lengthy business. If the other nations were not in this respect wiser than the Germans, we would have the trouble of learning every _terminus technicus_ five times. If the Germans carry this further, foreign men of learning will leave their books altogether unread; for besides this fault they are for the most part too diffuse, and are written in a careless, bad, and often affected and objectionable style, and besides are generally conceived with a rude disregard of the reader and his requirements. Secondly, those Germanised forms of the _termini technici_ are almost throughout long, patched-up, stupidly chosen, awkward, jarring words, not clearly separated from the rest of the language, which therefore impress themselves with difficulty upon the memory, while the Greek and Latin expressions chosen by the ancient and memorable founders of the sciences possess the whole of the opposite good qualities, and easily impress themselves on the memory by their sonorous sound. What an ugly, harsh-sounding word, for instance, is “_Stickstoff_” instead of _azot_! “_Verbum_,” “_substantiv_,” “_adjectiv_,” are remembered and distinguished more easily than “_Zeitwort_,” “_Nennwort_,” “_Beiwort_,” or even “_Umstandswort_” instead of “_adverbium_.” In Anatomy it is quite unsupportable, and moreover vulgar and low. Even “_Pulsader_” and “_Blutader_” are more exposed to momentary confusion than “_Arterie_” and “_Vene_;” but utterly bewildering are such expressions as “_Fruchthälter_,” “_Fruchtgang_,” and “_Fruchtleiter_” instead of “_uterus_,” “_vagina_,” and “_tuba Faloppii_,” which yet every doctor must know, and which he will find sufficient in all European languages. In the same way “_Speiche_” and “_Ellenbogenröhre_” instead of “_radius_” and