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Zoologischer Anzeiger 



herausgegeben 



von Prof. J. Victor CarUS in Leipzig. 

 Zugleich 



Organ der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft. 



Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig. 



XV. Jahrg. 28. November 1892. No. 406. 



Inhalt: I. Wissenschaftl. Mittheilungeii. 1. ßuckinan and Bather, The terms of Auxology. 

 (Schluß.) 2. T. Wagner, Biologische Notiz. 3. Bergh, Zur Entwicklung des Keimstreifens von Mysis. 

 II. Sittheil, ans Museen, Instituten etc. 1. Blanchard, Règles de nomeuclature adoptées par le 

 Congrès Zoologiqne de Moscou. 2. Zoological Society of London. 3. Linnean Society of New 

 Sonth Wales. III. Personal-Notizen. Vacat. Litteratnr p. 293 — 308. 



I. Wissenschaftliche Mittheilungen. 



1. The terms of Auxology. 



By S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. and F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S., London. 



(Schluß.) 

 Etymological Remarks on the above table. 



1) Embryonic. The term »Embryologie« means »connected with 

 the study of the embryo«. Hyatt, however, did not wish to say »A 

 stage connected with the study of the embryo«, but »A stage connec- 

 ted with the embryo«; otherwise »Embryonic stage«, a phrase well 

 understood and in ordinary use. 



2) Brephic. The first term used by Hyatt for this stage, was 

 wSilphologic» , which , besides being open to the same objection as 

 »Embryologie« , was apparently derived from a word that meant either 

 a cockroach or a bookworm, neither of which have any obvious con- 

 nection with the subject. It was in a footnote to Mr. Jackson's pa- 

 per of 1888, quoted above, that Hyatt substituted the term »Nepio- 

 nic«. Were this a Greek word we should be glad to retain it; it is, 

 however, only an impossible corruption of vvjirioc, made still worse by 

 the spelling »naepionic« which Hyatt and Beech er now affect. As 

 there is no other word connected with vtjtcloç that can be readily angli- 

 cised, we have adopted the word ßps'^txoc, derived from ßpecpoc, the 

 unborn or new-born young of men or other animals. 



3) Neanic. Hyatt's term »Nealogic« is said to be derived from 

 veaÀYjç and Xd-j-oc. If such a compound were possible it would be »Nea- 

 lologic«; but, as before, the latter half is superfluous. Neavixo; springs 



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