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two genera with new names (Dendronephtkya and Stereonephthya). I 

 have reexamined the specimens in my large collection of this genus and 

 I have found so many cases in which it is extremely difficult to deter- 

 mine with certainty that the anthocodiae are "never" connected together 

 to form bundles; moreover in many specimens there are very many iso- 

 lated anthocodiae, and I cannot believe that the distinction is one of 

 any practical importance. 



The generic name Spongodes is one that has been well established 

 for a great many years, it is used is nearly all the large Museums and 

 Laboratories of the world and should not be discarded without some 

 very strong reasons based upon a thorough anatomical study of its spe- 

 cies. I would suggest therefore that the generic name Spongodes be re- 

 tained and that those zoologists who have found Prof. Küken thal's 

 classification useful should retain Dendronephthya and Stereonephthya 

 as sub-generic names. 



The proposal made by Prof. Kükenthal as it stands is contrary 

 to rule 29 of the "International rules of Zoological nomenclature" pub- 

 lished in 1905 which reads as follows. »Wird eine Gattung in zwei 

 oder mehr Gattungen geteilt, so verbleibt ihr gültiger Name einer der 

 aus der Teilung hervorgegangenen Gattungen. War der Typus der 

 Gattung urspünglich bestimmt, so verbleibt der Gattungsname der- 

 jenigen aus der Teilung hervorgegangenen Gattung, Avelche diesen 

 Typus enthalte 



Whether me are prepared to abide by these rules or not, it is 

 clearly very inconvenient to discard altogether from our literature a 

 generic name such as Spongodes which is so well known as the name 

 applied to a very common Alcyonarian in the tropical seas. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Hamburg. 



Herr Dr. Georg Dimcker, wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter am 

 Naturhistorischen Museum, ist auf ein Jahr beurlaubt, um als Zoologe 

 an der Hamburgischen ethnographischen Expedition zur Erforschung 

 der Südsee teilzunehmen. 



After 1st June, 1908, my Address will be: 

 Biological Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Tlios. H. Montgomery, jr. 



Nekrolog. 

 Am 7. April d. J. starb in Wien Prof. Dr. Ludwig Karl Schmarda, 

 geboren am 23. Aug. 1819 in Olmütz, bis 1883 Professor der Zoologie 

 an der Universität Wien, bekannt durch seine Arbeiten zur Morphologie 

 und besonders zur geographischen Verbreitung der Tiere. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



