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IN the British Printer for May and June of last year appears an article under the above heading, by Mr. Horace Hart, Controller, Clarendon Press, Oxford, which, as in my case, may have escaped the notice of some of your readers. On this assumption it would be as well, taking into consideration the importance of the matter to scientific men generally and directors of museums in particular, to ask for the views of others qualified to judge upon the advisability of discarding the use of the digraphs œ and æ in Greek words written in English characters, in Latin words, and—presumably—in words derived therefrom, such as Coelenterata and Caesarean, which, according to Mr. Hart, should not be written, as they usually are, Cœlenterata and Cæsarean. The importance of such a ruling cannot be over-estimated in any museum which desires to teach and not mislead its students—to say nothing of the waste of elaborate labels which the disuse of the digraphs entails, and these considerations must be my excuse for troubling your technical readers for their opinions.
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BROWNE, M. Rules for Compositors and Readers. Nature 58, 368 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058368c0
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