II. 
OF THE IGNORANCE AND NEGLECT OF AMERICAN LABORS 
IN ZOOLOGY EXHIBITED BY EUROPEAN NATURALISTS. 
The discovery and description of animals before 
unknown, is one of the evidences of the zeal and in- 
dustry of a naturalist ; and to be known among the 
few persons engaged in this branch of science as pos- 
sessing these qualifications, is unfortunately, in this 
country at least, his only reward. To perpetuate this 
evidence, the right of naming the species has been 
conceded to the discoverer by common consent ; and 
in all systematic and descriptive works on Natural 
History, his name is, by universal practice, appended to 
that of the species, and in this manner becomes as 
extensively known as the animal itself. He who omits 
the name of the discoverer, and still more, he who 
substitutes the name of another in its place, does the 
former a manifest injustice, as it deprives him of a right 
which is the only recompense of Ids labor. He also 
does an injury to science by adding a new name to an 
object already named, thus increasing the multitude of 
