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more obscure. Have you ever thought on this point } AVhy , 

 should NaturaHsts append their own names to new species, 

 when Mineralogists and Chemists do not do so to new sub- \ 

 stances ? When you write to Falconer pray remember me 

 affectionately to him. I grieve most sincerely to hear that 

 he has been ill. My dear Hooker, God bless you, and fare 

 you well. Your sincere friend, 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to Hugh Strickland.^ 



Down, Jan. 29tli [1849 J. 



.... What a labour you have undertaken ; I do ho7iour 

 your devoted zeal in the good cause of Natural Science. Do 

 you happen to have a spare copy of the Nomenclature rules 

 published in the ' British Association Transactions ? ' if you 



* Hugh Edwin Strickland, M. A., F. R. S., was born 2nd of March, 

 18 1 1, and educated at Rugby, under Arnold, and at Oriel College, Oxford. 

 In 1835 and 1836 he travelled through Europe to the Levant with W. J. 

 Hamilton, the geologist, wintering in Asia Minor. In 1S41 he brought 

 the subject of Natural History Nomenclature before the British Associa- 

 tion, and prepared the Code of Rules for Zoological Nomenclature, now 

 known by his name — the principles of which are very generally adopted. 

 In 1843 he was one of the founders (if not the original projector) of the 

 Ray Society. In 1845 he married the second daughter of Sir William 

 Jardine, Bart. In 1850 he was appointed, in consequence of Buckland's 

 illness, Deputy Reader in Geology at Oxford. His promising career was 

 suddenly cut short on September 14, 1853, when, while geologizing in a 

 railway cutting between Retford and Gainsborough, he was run over by a 

 train and instantly killed. A memoir of him and a reprint of his principal 

 contributions to journals was published by Sir William Jardine in 1858 ; 

 but he was also the author of ' The Dodo and its Kindred' (1848) ; ' Bibli- 

 ographia Zoologiae' (the latter in conjunction with Louis Agassiz, and 

 issued by the Ray Society) ; ' Ornithological Synonyms ' (one volume only 

 published, and that posthumously). A catalogue of his ornithological col- 

 lection, given by his widow to the University of Cambridge, was compiled 

 by Mr. Salvin, and published in 1882. (I am indebted to Prof. Newton 

 for the above note.) 



