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In the decades during which I have been involved in the compilation, editing, revision, updating, adaptation, etc. of dictionaries, I have always considered lexicography an art.
The tradition began with the influential work of Clarence L. Barnhart, dean of American lexicography, who at the age of 89 is still active in the profession.
Missing is coverage of more important areas of linguistics, like computational linguistics, mechanical translation, lexicography, language analysis by computer, and some others.
On the other hand, Dr. Burrill's article on Toponomy and Cultural History is a very good example of how toponomy (and lexicography in general) and history can benefit from each other.
It goes without saying that most of those drawn to lexicography, like those attracted to art schools, exhibit skills more likely to be associated with craft than with art; these days, far too few of those who work on dictionaries have a thorough grounding in literature, let alone the various specialties within linguistics—general and comparative studies, classical and modern foreign language study, phonetics, philology, etymology, to say nothing of lexicology and lexicography.