OS BECK, 1762 17 



IV. OSBECK, Reise durch China, 1762. 



Per Osbeck. 



Osbeck, a pupil of Linnaeus, published in 1757 the record of his 

 travels in China. This work is wholly binomial, but being earlier than 

 1758, the Latin edition, "Iter Chinensis," iyS7^ cannot be used in nomen- 

 clature. The German edition, Reise durch China, bears the date of 1762, 

 and is here considered. A Swedish version dates from 1765, an English 

 edition from 1771. The case is exactly parallel with that of Hassel- 

 quist's "Iter Palestinum/' published in 1757, and reprinted in German 

 in 1762. Hasselquist, like Osbeck, was a pupil of Linnaeus, and adopted 

 the Linnaean Code. In Opinion 57, the Commission of Nomenclature re- 

 jected Hasselquist's work and its translation. "The German translation 

 by Gadebusch, published in 1762, does not give validity to the names 

 published in the original edition in 1757." The present writers question 

 the wisdom of this decision. 



The names of Osbeck are questioned as translations of work prior to 

 1758. 



Apocryptes Osbeck, 130, 1762; type Apocryptes chinensis Osbeck, 

 GoBius PECTiNiROSTRis GmeUn. 

 ■ Apocrypytes is close to Boleophthalmus but distinct. xA.pocryptes Cuvier is 

 a different genus. 



Albula Osbeck, 309, 1762; type Albula chinensis Osbeck. 



Same as Salanx Cuvier, not Albula Gronow 1763. If accepted, the genus 

 commonly called Albula must receive a new name, Butyrinus Lacepede. 



V. GRONOW, Zoophylaceum; Zoophylacii Gronoviana . . . Animalia 

 qua; in museo siio adservat, etc., 1763. 



LoRENZ Theodor Gronow (Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius). 



In this work of Gronow, printed in 1763, before its author had be- 

 come acquainted with the Sy sterna Naturce, the genera of fishes are well 

 defined, in a system which runs closely parallel with the system of Ar- 

 tedi (1738), but the species, as with Artedi, have polynomial designa- 

 tions only. In addition to the genera earlier named by Artedi and Lin- 

 naeus, Gronow has a number of new names. Two of these, Amia and 

 Hepatus, conflict with Linnsean genera of 1766. The completed manu- 



