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Bigot's Orthography. ") 



By G. H. Verrall, Newmarket (England). 



I notice a letter in the last page of the Wien. Ent. Ztg. 

 YIII, Heft IV, upon wliich I should like to make a few 

 observations. To begin witb , let me say that I do not think 

 it any discourtesy, and I certainly do not intend it as such, 

 to use no prefix to any scientific man's name, and I use the 

 name Bigot precisely as on the same page are used Loew 

 and Ron d an i, and as I should useLinnaeus, Fabricins 

 Meigen or Osten-Sacke n, 



Bigot's letter protests against my having written 

 (according to him) „Bigot with bis habitual (sie) disregard 

 of the simplest Orthography". In what I wrote I did not use 

 the mysterious word „(sie)"; is it possible that Bigot with 

 bis „habitual disregard of the simplest Orthography" would 

 like to spell „habitual" in some other way?! 



Let me now show that I was not exercising „un jugement 

 peremptoire". I have for ßome years past been collecting 

 materials for a „Nomenciator Dipterologicus", in which I have 

 noted all the various spellings used, and it was mainly an 

 extract from this that I used in my remarks on Ozirhtncus. 

 At present I have revised this list only at the beginning of 

 the aiphabet, and I will now take only the letter A. 



I find that Bigot has sent forty (40) Communications 

 to Scudder's Nomenciator Zoologicus; these are: 



1. „Ablautatus Loew."; the vol. XVIII might well be men- 

 tioned, although of course the date 1874 suffices. 



2. „Acanthij)eza Rondani. Muse. Exot. Frag. III, pag. 21, 

 xy-yyHiwc, tüou;" ; there is no such Greek word as a/.avOtvu?, 

 and even if there were, it has nothing to do with ßon- 

 dani's AcantMpeza , which comes from a/.avOa Tisi^o; ; the 

 moj-e correct reference is Ann. Mus. Genov. VII. 437. 



*) Wir haben diesen Artikel, welcher geeignet erscheint, eine weitere 

 Polemik hervorzurafen, nur deshalb aufgenommen, weil er sich durch die 

 Coirigenda zu Scudder's Nomenciator Zoologicus in der That als nützlich 

 erweist. Doch müssen wir erklären, dass wir aus Rücksicht für ucseren wohl 

 zumeist deutschen Leserkreis eine fernere Polemik in dieser Richtung für 

 diese Zeitung nicht geeignet halten, wenngleich wir uns wissenschaftlichen 

 Abhandlungen gegenüber, in welcher Cultursprache sie immer geschrieben sein 

 mögen, nicht verschliesseu. Die ßedaction. 



Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, VIII. Jahrg., 7. Heft (25. August 1889). 



