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It seems to me, therefore, that errors of carelessness, errors 

 caused by printers, and above all, errors of ignorance 

 shovild be wiped out. Those who publish in scientific works 

 write to educate, and surely we are not to be educated by the 

 ignorant. Only fancy a man as recently as 1896 proposing 

 such genera as Brevicornu and Nervijuncta ! Why, ho ought to 

 be put back into the nursery, and are we to learn under him ? 

 Let such a man iirst master the alphabet before he rushes into 

 print to teach his grandmother to suck eggs. Mr. Dunning 

 gave another instance of resistance to orthography which 

 remains even now, more than thirty-two years since he wrote 

 and one hundred and seven years since the correction was 

 made ; unfortunately all of us who possess collections know the 

 word Psocus, but veiy few know that it was a genus founded 

 by Latreille in 1794 from the word i//w;;^a) (to rub to pieces), 

 an attribute which one species still retains, as most of our 

 collections testify ; in 1796 Latreille himself correctly spelled 

 the word Psochus, but the priority-mongers have ever since 

 ignored his proper cor-rection ; Mr. Dunning very happily asked 

 whether if "the printer instead of dropping out the /* had 

 omitted (say) the o, thereby reducing the name to Pschus 1 

 must Latreille, and all the world besides, have for ever con- 

 tinued to sputter over the genus Pschus *? " I am not svire 

 that the word " sputter "' would have been quite the correct 

 one for English-speaking people. Surely the originator of a 

 name is more to be considered than the printer, but also 

 the educated speller is more to be considered than the half- 

 educated schoolboy. As to nonsense names, their use is a 

 disgrace to their inventors, but is, I am afraid, beyond remedy ; 

 and even if allowed to exist such names must be formed in 

 what would be pronounceable Latin, or else the sticklers 

 for rigid priority in spelling may soon be upset by some words 

 impossible for pronunciation, at any rate by us, as I must 

 admit that recently the Russians and Hungarians have in 

 numerous cases given commemorative names which assuredly 

 Cicero wovild have been unable to enunciate in Latin. Generic 

 and specific names must bear a Latin appearance, and whereas I 

 demurred the other day to heai'ing a Proutia called eppingella 

 because it came from Eppiug Forrest, I did it because the next 



