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the mention of family and order in their articles, The difficul- 

 ties they would meet — such as antiquated catalogues, under- 

 indexed catalogues, or, as in some cases, the entire lack of 

 catalogues — would forever cure them of this apparently trifling 

 but nevertheless momentous negligence. Even when there are 

 good catalogues at hand, it is a complex proposition to place a 

 genus. For the terminology of some orders, such as Diptera, 

 and Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptcra, etc., is, in part, 

 alike; the necessary consultation of both text and catalogue 

 in such cases causes an irksome and avoidable loss of time. 



The solution of all troubles is so simple, so obvious — in fact, 

 it is inherent in the subject — that it seems strange why taxo- 

 nomists have not adopted the simple means. But one ento- 

 mologist is known to me who in all of his papers inserts the 

 order name in his titles. That is the solution : Insert the order 

 of the insect, bird, mammal, or whatever-it-be behind the genus 

 and family name in the title. This holds good also for mor- 

 phological, ethological and other papers as well as for those 

 dealing solely with taxonomy. 



VII. Standards for Reprints. 



This chapter does not properly belong in this consideration. 

 But since reprints form an important part of the specialists' 

 literature, a few words on the topic may be of interest. 



Sometimes I receive reprints of articles published by "Enig- 

 ma" University; that is a tangible fact. The paging of the 

 reprint is the same as originally published; that is another 

 tangible fact. But I look in vain from page to page in the 

 endeavor to discover the number or year of the volume, the 

 month of publication, etc. That editor who arranged the 

 reprint of an article sent me, published in nineteen-something 

 on pages 260-290 of a certain periodical, yet paged the separate 

 1-30; and carefully effaced all reference to the name of the pub- 

 lication, the year or number of the volume, the year and month 

 of publication; — that editor, I say, deserves no honorary men- 

 tion. After guessing at the probable publications in which the 

 article might have appeared, I looked over the recent volumes 

 of many and ultimately succeeded in .finding the exact place, 

 page and time of publication. I owe that editor thanks, since 

 through him I was led to other articles of high interest; but I 

 spent an entire evening in trying to find out "What's which" 

 in the reprint. To be fully consistent, the editor should have 

 effaced the title of the article itself. 



