OSBECK, 1762 17 



IV. OSBECK, Rcise durch China, 1762. 



Per Osbeck. 



Osbeck, a pupil of Linnseus, publislied in 1757 the record of his 

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

 1758, the Latin edition, "Iter Chinensis," 1757, cannot be used in nomen- 

 clature. The German edition, Rcise 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 Palcstinum," published in 1757. and reprinted in German 

 in 1762. Masselquist, like Osbeck, was a pupil of Linnxus, 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 zvork prior to 

 '758. 



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

 liiiiiius PECTIN I ROSTRi.s Gmclin. 

 Apocrvpvtes is close to Boleophthalmus but distinct. .Xpocryptes Ciivier is 

 a different genus. 



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



Same as Sai-an.x Cuvier, not Albula Gronow 176.V If accepted, the genus 

 commonly called Albula must receive a new name, Butvrinus Laccpede. 



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

 qu(C in museo sua adsenvt, 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 Systctna Natunr, the genera of fishes arc 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- 

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

 Hepati;s, conflict with Linnsean genera of 1766. The completed manu- 



