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THE 
AMERICAN 
_ JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Arr. I.— Notice of some Works, recently published, on the No- 
menclature of Zoology ; by Aveustus A. Goutn, M. D. 
Report of a Committee ( of the British Association) eriotinek 
_ “to consider the rules by which the Nomenclature of Zoology 
may be established on a uniform and permanent basis.’ a 
pp. 17, 8vo., Lond. 1842. 
Nomenclator Zoologicus, continens Nomina Systematica Ger , 
rum Animalium tam viventium quam eeuen ete. ; auctor 
L. Agassiz, Ato. Soloduri, 1842. ee 
Tue British Association for the Advancement of Science has 
undertaken one task, for which it will receive the hearty thanks 
of zoologists. It has undertaken | to ——s. weight of its 
authority in arrest of the growi nelature, and of 
the injustice which some vootogriiaabiers anewed themselves to 
practice towards their predecessors. None need this legislation, 
and none will have more cause to be grateful for it, than Ameri- 
can sPeologists. We have now a host of naturalists Peng. ae 
“ia ho tnegs libraries or stantial collections of Biects, by 
teference to which doubts might be readily solved, there has 
already arisen among us such a burden of synonyms as to be 
Vol. xxv, No. 1.—April-June, 1843. 
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