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all rules of the Code ; that authorship following the specific names is not only 

 not definitely required under the Code, but that any general zoologist in 

 1806 would have known immediately in his own mind exactly what taxonomic 

 organism Hiibner listed at least in the great bulk of the listings without even 

 the need of trying to look anything up ; we find nothing in the Code which 

 states that what constitutes an easily interpreted indication in 1806 (or 1925) 

 may later, 1925 (or 2044) become not valid by reason of the addition of unsup- 

 pressed homonyms or because of any other complications, especially after 

 the indication had been rendered still more available by correct interpreta- 

 tion by a number of different authors in the intermediate period. 



The Secretary presents the following evidence to the Commission. 



Title oe document. — The following is the title of the document 

 in question as copied from a photostatic reproduction of a copy 

 bearing the following " Reprinted in facsimile by S. H. Scudder — 

 Cambridge, U. S. A., 1873 " : Tcntanicn determinationis digestionis 

 afquc dcnominatioms singularnni stirpiiim Lepidopicronim, peritis ad 

 inspicicndiim ct dijudicandwn comnnmicatiiin, a Jacobo Hiibner. 



This title might be translated into English, in various phraseology, 

 as follows : " a tentative (or attempt) determination (or to determine, 

 limit), division (or to divide, orderly distribution, arrangement) and 

 naming (denominating, change of name = metonymy) of the separate 

 (single, one by one) stems (sticks, families, races, cf. stirps, genus, 

 family) of Lepidoptera communicated to experts (the skilled, the ex- 

 perienced, the practically acquainted) for their inspection (look into, 

 consideration, contemplation, examination) and judgment. [Italics 

 by Secretary.] 



Ochsenheimer (1816, viii) states: 



Herr Hiibner hat unter dem Titcl : Tentamen .... [etc.] .... den Ent- 

 wurf eines Systems des Schmetterlinge auf einem Quartblatte abgedruckt 

 hcrausgegeben, worin die von ihm angegebenen Familien mit Gattungsnamen 

 von verschicdenen Werthe belegt sind. 



Hiibner (1816, A^erzeichniss, p. 3) refers to the Tentamen as 

 follows : 



Die Grundlage dieses Entwurfes babe ich soglcicb, unter dem Titel : Tenta- 

 men determinationis, digestionis atque denominationis singularum stirpium 

 Lepidoptcrorum bekannt gemacht, damit sie von Vcrstandigcn, hcvor ich sie 

 aiuuilivic, gcpriift uiid bcurtlicilt zvcrdcii iiiochtc. [Italics by Secretary.] 



Hiibner (1818, Zutrage, pp. 4-5) printed what is practically a 

 second, modified and enlarged, version of his Tentamen, preceding 

 it with the following statement : 



Denn mcin 1806 bekannt gcmachter Vcrsuch cincr Bcstimmiing, Anordmmg 

 tiiid Bcncnnung alter Stiimmc dcr Schmcltlingc wurde weder gleich verwor- 

 fen, noch gleich ergriffcn. Erst nach und nach wird er beachtet, und durch 



