Iredale and his efforts in Rissoidx, etc., I feel like shrieking; and 

 yet I can see some excuse for what he is driving at. Only I wonder 

 if it would not be possible to say in words what he is trying to express 

 in generic terms and achieve the same ends. However, the trend 

 seems to be toward the multiplication of terms. I remember well 

 seeing a manuscript a little while ago in which someone was mono- 

 graphing the pelicans of the world. 1 think there are twenty-two 

 recognized forms which he split up into twelve genera. At the time 

 I thought what a blessing that we still have popular names by which 

 we may recognize our birds. After all, in the ornithological field, 

 the popular names have been the most stable of all. I might say the 

 same is true of botany, because when I take up a modern systematic 

 treatise, after having allowed my botanical studies to lie dormant for 

 fifteen years or more, I find it necessary to look for popular terms to 

 re-identify my subjects. So you see it is the trend all around. 



*'May the Lord have mercy on the man who lays aside a subject 

 for as long a period as you have, and then takes it up again with fresh 

 enthusiasm and vigor, because he will find himself a stranger in a 

 strange land; that is, in such a tangle of changed nomenclature that 

 it will seem as though he has never really known his subject. One 

 thing, however remains, and that is, truth will always come to the 

 surface and basic facts such as you are giving us regardless of the 

 nomenclatorial vicissitudes to which the species may be subjected 

 will always stand to receive full merit. Therefore, let me congratulate 

 you and let me wish you ever so many years of activity as fruitful and 

 forceful as your present effort." 



Professor Bartsch fully realized my dilemma as to names. It 

 was hopeless for me to do more than to refer to the second edition 

 of Gould's "Invertebrata" so that the student could instantly refer 

 to a reliable figure of the species indicated. These figures to the 

 number of 357 I drew on wood and they have been widely copied 

 though rarely acknowledged. Professors Verrill and Smith in 

 their "Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters" 

 used many of them giving me full credit for the same. It is true I 



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