THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOllY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 107. NOVEMBER 1906. 



XLIV. — Brachiopod Nomenclature. 

 Bj S. S. BucKMAN, F.G.S. 



The following remarks are presented in the hope that thej 

 may be of assistance in clearino; up various clifEculties 

 connected with the names of some Brachiopod genera. 



Epithyris, Htpothyeis, Cleiothtris, Phillips, 184:1. 



According to Dall * these genera are indeterminable from 

 what Phillips has said about them, and so he establishes two 

 of them on King\s authority. Schuchertt does the same, 

 definitely stating that King's genera are not Pliillips's. But 

 this arrangement can only be accepted as a temporary expe- 

 dient. The generic names must stand or fall by what Phillips 

 lias done, and if they fall they cannot be revived in another 

 sense. " Once used, always used/' 



However, I do not accept the dictum that Phillips's genera 

 are indeterminable, or that Phillips did not sufficiently indicate 

 his types, so that a subsequent author was free to select — 

 though this would make them still Phillips's genera, not 

 King's. Phillips, to my reading, indicated the types which 

 he had in mind — not so definitely as he might have done, 

 perhaps; but still he did indicate them. He says of the first 



* Index Bracli., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1877. 



t Sjn. Am. Brack., Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, 1897, 



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