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Some one in conversation was disposed to question whether Martyn 

 can be regarded as consistently binomial on account of the presence of 

 the eight trinomials, which are not categorically stated to be varieties. 

 But considering that there is at best no room in the column for even 

 the usual abbreviation of the word "'variety,'" and that the practice in 

 each case is perfectlj^ regular, I think there is no merit in this sugges- 

 tion. Such authorities as Gmelin, Bolten, Dillwyn, Lamarck, Pfeiffer, 

 Shubert and Wagner, Carpenter, and Stearns have accepted Martyn\s 

 names without demur, and, indeed, while looking into the matter I 

 have not anywhere in print found the regularit}^ of his nomenclature 

 questioned except by von Martens. 



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(' Where the Latin name is omitted for any reason, but indicated by the context, 

 the result is here put in parentheses. 



b The shell is a Fnsus, but the Latin name is omitted. It is called crane or grue 

 in the column for English and French names. Fusus coins was named the Great 

 Crane shell by DaCosta in 1775, and I tind in his other work, and in the Portl" .id 

 Catalogue, various species of Fusus referred to as Crane shells. 



