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Boletim do Museo Parsense de Hist. Nat. e Ethnog., II, No. i, 1897. 

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Naturalist, The, a Month. Journ. of Nat. Hist, for the North of Eng- 

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Ornithologisches Jahrbuch, VIII, Heft 4, 1S97. 



Ornithologische Monatsberichte, V, Nos. 7-9, 1897. 



Osprey, The, I, Nos. 10-12, 1897. 



Ottawa Naturalist, XI, Nos. 3, 4, 1S97. 



Our Animal Friends, XXIV, Nos. 11, 12, XXV, No. i, July-Sept., 1S97.. 



Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences, 1896. 



Science, (2) VI, Nos. 131-140, 1S97. 



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Zoologist, The, (4) Nos. 7-9, July-Sept., 1897. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Treatment of ' Nomina Nuda.' 



Editors of 'The Auk': — 



Dear Sirs : — I should like to ask, through the pages of ' The Auk,' for 

 further expressions of opinion concerning the diverse treatment to which 

 Homina nuda ar^ now subjected. The matter is one of such importance to 

 those who deal hand-to-hand with the many-sided aspects of nomencla- 

 ture that every effort should be made to bring order out of the present 

 chaos. 



A nomen nudum is a name — zoological or botanical, generic, subgen- 

 eric, specific or subspecific — which has not been defined and published 

 in accordance with the laws of binomial nomenclature. Such names are 

 generally recognized as without status, and therefore as in no way inval- 

 idating the subsequent application of the same term to another organism, 

 or to the organism intended by the original writer when this, as is often 

 the case, can be ascertained. It naturally follows that a nomen nudum, 

 having no real status in nomenclature, may be disregarded ; and if a sub- 

 sequent author, wittingly or unwittingly, uses the same name again the 



