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Miscelhnieous. 



unnoticed, so far as nomenelataro is concorne'l, until 1902, when 

 Sherborn, in the 'Index Animaliura,' declared it to be a non-binomial 

 work. Two j'cars later Palmer, apparently overlookiug Sherborn's 

 statement, included about a dozen Frisch names in the ' Index 

 Generura Mammalium,' whence a few have recently been introduced 

 into the nomenclature of mammals. But that this course is quite 

 unjustifiable seems to us evident after carefully examining a copy of 

 Prisch's book which Mr. Sherborn has kindly placed at our disposal. 

 The work appears to have been intended primarily as a text-book 

 for pupils in natural history. It deals with mammals and reptiles 

 only, twenty-three pages being devoted to the former, seven to the 

 latter. These animals are arranged according to a classification 

 based on that of Klein, but containing so many new features that 

 its author did not feel at liberty to connect with it the name of 

 " the great Pliny of Danzig." Three categories are recognized — 

 " Societas," " Genus," and " Species," — and under each category 

 the names, German and Latin, are arranged column-wise, three 

 columns to a page. The following are a few examples : — 



Species. 

 1. Bos imlgaris, gemeiner Ochs. 



1. Ovis vulgaris, gemein Wolleu- 

 Scbaf. 



]. Busela'phus, der Bubalis, der 

 Alten. 



1. Gun'i Eplizior;]ein Ton Akra. 



2. Gticri Kf'ifiir, von Sennegall. 

 Trcn/us moi-chifcr, Muskustliiei-, 



Bhinocerotina. 1. Ehinorrros, Mojioceros, et Bi- 



Nashornartige. corn is, Nasborn mit einem oder 



2 Hurnern. 



1. Ehinoceros unicornis, Nasliorn 

 mit einem Ilorn. 



Felina. 

 Katzenartige. 



Leo, der Lowe ; Lecsna, die Lo- Es siud zwey Rassen vom Loweu. 

 winu. 



In an unpaged table at the end the whole of the system is 

 repeated, this time classified into Ordines, Gentes, Societates, and 

 Genera, the species not being mentioned. The generic names used 

 in this table are quite commonly different from those in the main 

 part of the work, and many of them are again double (e. g. Tatu 

 Armadillus, Araneus mus) or otherwise technically impossible. 



At first sight the majority of the names in the second and third 

 columns of the paged part and in the table at the end have an 

 attractively Linnrean appearance, but on reading the work con- 

 secutively it becomes evident that those in the third column have 

 no invariable relation to those in the second, while among the 

 latter we find such irregularities that all illusion of binomialism 

 quickly disappears. As names for genera we find such compound 



