“Anlage” and “Rudiment”

Abstract

SOME months ago Prof. Herrick, who is in charge of the department of Neurology in the “Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology,” which I am editing (now in the press of Macmillan and Co.), addressed a circular to various authorities asking their opinion on certain matters of terminology. The results were collated and discussed by Prof. Herrick in the Journ. of Comp. Neurology, vii. 3–4, 1898. Among the matters in question was the English equivalent of the German term Anlage. Prof. Herrick came to the conclusion that Proton and Rudiment were more available than any other words suggested (ruling out the use in English of Anlage with its German inflexion).