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ON THE EELATIVE CLAIM TO PRIOEITY OF THE NAMES 



HELIX FEUTICUM, MULLEE, AND H. CABDUELIS, SCHULZE. 



By G. K. GuDE, F.Z.S. 



Read 12th June, 1914. 



My attentiou has been drawn to a paper by Herr Hans Houigmann 

 in Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heim. Kuude, ii, 1909, in which, on p. 44, 

 the author once more resuscitates the name Helix cardnelis, attributed 

 to Schulze (177u). According to the rules of nomeuchiture the 

 hitter in reality dates from 1855, Avhen it was adopted by T. Reibisch 

 in a paper dealing with the Molhisca of the Kingdom of Saxony, 

 published in Allgem. Dents. Naturh. Zeit. Ges. Isis, Dresden, Neue 

 Folge, i, p. 415, 1855, in preference to the name H. fruticum, 

 described by Miiller in Verm. terr. fluv., ii, p. 71, 1774. 



Although several German authors have already dealt with tlie 

 matter in a somewhat cursory manner, I consider it advisable to 

 place the facts of the case on record, especially since the serial in 

 which Schulze's paper appeared is not accessible to everyone, the 

 only copy in London apparently being at the British Museum, 

 Bloomsbury, and as, moreover, Herr Honigmann has not seen the 

 original. He introduces the subject by stating that Herr Vohland, 

 of Leipzig, has called his attention to the fact that four years before 

 Miiller published his description of the species (1774) a paper by 

 Schulze entitled " Nachriclit von dem ohneweit Dresden beKndlichen 

 Zschonengrunde, uud von den darinuen vorhandenen Seltenlieiten der 

 Natur " appeared in the seventh volume of the Neues IIamlur(jischen 

 Magazin for 1770, in which a description of the present s[)ecies is 

 given, namely under the name of M. cardnelis, but he admits that 

 unfortunately this work has been inaccessible to him. He states 

 nevertheless that in future the species must bear the name proposed 

 by Schulze. 



The copy in the British Museum of the volume of the serial in 

 question, containing Schulze's paper, is not marked vol. vii. It 

 contains six parts, each with a separate title-page, the first one being 

 numbered thirty-seventh part. The last page, however, is marked as 

 end of seventh volume. On p. 48 of this volume, under a reference to 

 " Tabel 2, Fig. 4 ", the following paragraph occurs : " Die fiinfte Art 

 kommt in den meisten Stiickcn mit der beschriebenen Uelice neniorale 

 iiberein [here follows a comparative description of the species and its 

 habitat] . . . Linnaus siehet diese Schnecke in der seiner Fn. S.N. 1294, 

 beygefiigten Anraerkuug fur eine Art der Helicis nenioralis an. Sie 

 verdienen aber, wegen der angezeigten Umstiinde, billig eine besondere 

 Stelle, und man konnte Sie 



Cochleam umhilicatum, testa iitrinque convexa, diaphana, ai)ertnra 

 semicircular i, oder auch 



Cocldeam cardtielem, Die Distelschnecke nennen." 



