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in botany and zoology. No one can profit by the 800,000 names 
recognised by naturalists. For who can tell from the name any- 
thing about the nature of Mormops megalophylla, Sphaeria sobolifera, 
ete., etc. One cannot even say whether one is dealing with plants or 
reptiles, with crustaceans or zoophytes ! 
It seems then worthy of consideration whether we should not in 
current usage suppress the generic name, and leave it for the lists and 
treatises of specialists, whether we should not in current usage substi- 
tute for the generic title some composite term indicative of the class 
and family to which the organism belongs. 
Thus all the names of mammals might begin with the syllables 
Mammi, and end with abbreviations indicative of the family. Thus 
we would suggest Mammicanae lupus, Mammivespertae megalophylla, 
Mammileporae or Manvmileporus cuniculus. 
If there are two equivalent specific names in the same family, one 
might add the complete generic name in brackets. 
He goes on to suggest— 
Avigallinae domesticus. 
Reptilacertiae ocellata. 
Piscipercidae fluviatilis, 
Molluskhelicae aspersa. 
Legumpapilliae sativus. 
Insecticarabae auratus. 
Echiniholothuriae regalis. 
Arachniacariae scabiet. 
Such a procedure seems to him easy and logical. The radicals Mammi-, 
Avi-, Crypto-, Insecti-, recall the sulphates, carbonates, ethyls, etc., etc., 
of the chemists ; and would not vary in any important degree within 
a century. It seems the only way of securing a universal biological 
terminology, and besides saving an infinitude of time, it would 
conform to the mode of the exacter science of chemistry. Such is 
Mr. Herrera’s suggestion. It should make the sticklers for terminology 
‘sit up.’ 
Seience and Conduct. 
THosE who, taking an interest not only in science but in human 
conduct, desire to harmonise their conceptions of the one and the 
other, should not fail to study Prof. Miinsterberg’s recent volume on 
“ Psychology and Life.”* It is not light reading. As the author says in 
his Preface—“I do not want to entertain by these papers, I want to 
fight; to fight against dangers which I see in our public life and our 
education, in art and science; and only those who intend serious and 
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