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Recommendation 1 2f. Publication of Names 



RECOMMENDATION 12f. An author, when publishing a new generic or sub- 

 generic name, should give its etymology and also that of a new epithet when 

 the meaning is not obvious. 



ANNOTATIONS 



Recommendation 12f. The Botanical Code includes a similar Recom- 

 mendation. The Zoological Rules recommend that the author of a 

 generic name "based on a Greek or Latin ^vord" should indicate the 

 gender of the name and its etymology. 



Compliance with this recommendation on the part of authors is 

 most helpful in many cases. The fact that "noveboracensis" means 

 "of New York" is not readily discovered by reference to a Latin dic- 

 tionary; one must know that the Latin name for York, England, 

 was Eboracum and that New York is Novum Eboracinu. Similarly, 

 knowledge that "Jersey" is derived from the older Latin name Caes- 

 area clears the meaning of "novaecaesareae" as "of New Jersey." 



