益智书会与杜亚泉的中文无机物命名方案

论述了传教士组织益智书会与中国学者杜亚泉的中文无机物命名方案及其异同，指出：两套方案都以确定物质的属名及一套定性词头为主要特征；两者都尽量利用中国传统物质名词来制定属名，出发点虽然良好，但未能准确反映出西方无机物命名的分类思想；前者所确定的词头与西方化学名词的定性词缀相对应，沿袭了西方名词本身存在的混乱和弊病，无法传递出关于化合物组成的准确信息；后者确定了一套与元素化合价严格对应的词头，通过掌握元素周期表等基本化学知识就能由名及物，可以间接反映出化合物的组成。在此基础之上，进一步讨论了类属式命名方案的影响及未得到流传的原因。

The Chinese Nomenclatures for Inorganic Compounds of the Educational Association of China and Du Yaquan

This paper discusses the Chinese nomenclatures for inorganic compounds of the Educational Association of China and Du Yaquan, and analyzes their similarities and differences. It is concluded that, both nomenclatures are characterized by the establishment of genetic names and some qualitative prefixes; Chinese traditional names are utilized by both to establish generic names, which is a good point but fails to fully reflect t he classification of western inorganic nomenclature; the former can not avoid copying the confusion and limitations of western names of the time by establishing Chinese prefixes corresponding to those qualitative af- fixes of western chemical names, and hence fails to convey the exact information of the composition of a compound ; by establishing Chinese prefixes that strictly correspond with the valences of elements, one can write correct formulas according to the nomenclature of the latter if he gets some basic chemical knowledge about periodic table of the elements, therefore the nomenclature of the latter could reflect the composition of a compound in an indirect way. The paper further discusses the influences of generic nomenclature and provides possible explanations for its elimination.