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woollen materials and leather, a fact of which he was not 

 hitherto aware. 



Zoological Nomenclature. — At the request of Dr. Sharp 

 the Secretary read the following note : — " 1 find that in his 

 Address, at the recent Anniversary Meeting of the Society, 

 the late President noticed a pamphlet recently published on 

 the subject of Zoological Nomenclature. In this notice the 

 President states that Dr. Sharp proposes to have ' three 

 names for each species.' This statement, however, not only 

 does not represent what I iiropose, but is calculated to convey 

 such a misconception about my propositions that I do not 

 think it would be right to allow it to pass without observation 

 from me. So far from having 'three names for each species,' 

 it is my object to have but one name for each species. I do 

 not consider it desirable that the classificatory name shall be 

 used at all as a part of the name of a species. And the main 

 object of the pamphlet, noted by the learned President, is to 

 facilitate the complete separation of species nomenclature 

 from classification nomenclalure. Till this object be attained 

 there can be no solution of the nomenclature question ; and 

 the only way of obtaining it is either to establish a separate 

 mononymic system of species names^ or to adopt the com- 

 promise proposed by me." 



Death of Mr. Deane. — On Saturday, the 4th of April, 

 Henry Deane, of Cla])ham Common, a most painstaking 

 entomologist, but unknown as a collector of insects, died 

 suddenly of heart disease, in his sixty-seventh year, at Dover, 

 whence he was about to embark for the Continent. I can 

 scarcely over-rate the ardour or thoroughness with which 

 ]\[r. Deane in\'estigated subjects of natural Science: as an 

 instance of this 1 may mention that when in 1872 the question 

 of the food of Syr])hida3 was agitated, and it was discovered 

 that these flics fed on dry pollen granules, Mr. Deane was the 

 only naturalist in the kingdom who condescended to consider 

 the question. He possessed one of those rarely candid minds 

 which aims simply at the discovery and promulgation of truth, 

 entirely careless how it may interfere with hypothesis. He 

 saw almost at the first glance that it was simj)le pollen 

 granules that distended the abdomens of these flies ; and 

 then he traced the reception of these granules into the 



