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Vol. 43, No. 2 (APRIL 1955) COMPOSITION OF SCIENTIFIC WORDS, by Roland Wilbur Brown; 882 pages; $8.00; published by the author, 1954; U. S. National Museum, Washington, D.C.
This book is a revision and enlargement of the author's Materials for Word-study published in 1927. The major portion of the work - 814 pages - is the lexicon in which "English keywords receive their appropriate Latin, Greek, and other synonyms with derivative examples." The abundant cross references make it possible, it would seem, for a word-coiner to find a suitable...