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Remarks. +. 2 restrict (the semendation: or 
names to the correction of obvious or known typograph- 
ical errors involving obscurity.* 
RECOMMENDATION I.—The rules of Latin orthography 
are to be adhered to in the construction of scientific names. 
Remarks. . . . For instance, the names which modern 
authors have written Azpunemia ... . potocephala, 
must, according to the laws of etymology, be spelt 
“Eipycnemia . . , peocephala. 
Simpson gave four different forms to the name of one of 
the new genera, described in his “Synopsis,’”’ viz.: Sch7s/o- 
desma (pp. 506 and 514). Shistodesmus (pp. 803 and 804), 
Shistodesma (p. 1036), and Schistodesmus (Table of Contents, 
p. vi of the separate edition of the Synopsis, while the Table 
of Contents of the whole volume of Proceedings has, on p. vii, 
Shistodesmus). ‘The spelling of the first syllable as ‘‘ SAz”’ is 
an impossibility in a Greek word, and the above Recommenda- 
tion I demands that it be written ‘Schz.’?’ Mr. BRYANT 
WALKER (in letters) urges, correctly, that the forms used 
previous to page 803, where the species is first defined, shall 
be considered as xomina nuda. ‘The name, properly translit- 
erated, must therefore stand as Schistodesmus. 
RECOMMENDATION IJI.—In latinizing personal names ° 
only the termination should be changed, except as in 
cases provided for under Recommendation IV. 
Remarks.— ..... . . This recommendation-. .~. . , 
is particularly to be observed in many names ending in 
a, the genitive of which should be @. 
RECOMMENDATION IV.—Names adopted from lan- 
guages. . . . . containing characters not represented 
*Such an error involving obscurity, albeit the fault of the author rather than of 
the typographer, we find in the name of QOuadrula keineriana, dedicated by Lea to: 
“Mr. L. C. Keiner, the author of /conographie des Coguilles Vivantes.’’ But that 
author’s name was LL. C. KIENER. A similar error occurs in Lea’s Anodonta jewit- 
tiana, named in honor of Col. K. Jewett.—Would anybody hesitate to correct such 
lapsus penne ?—See the following Recommendation II, 
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