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WHILE fully sympathising with Prof. Gregory in his condemnation of the scientific misappropriation of popular terms, and, indeed, objecting to the scientific appropriation of such terms where it would be better to employ a universally intelligible technical language, still, it seems to me that even more deserving of condemnation is the misappropriation by one group of scientific workers of the scientific terms used by another group. This procedure is the more objectionable when the two groups of workers are in adjoining fields. It does not greatly hurt anyone that an astronomer should mean by an asteroid something quite different from that which a zoologist means; but it does matter when one biologist uses a term in a different sense from another biologist.
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BATHER, F. The Scientific, Misappropriation of Scientific Terms. Nature 88, 41 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088041b0
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