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woollen materials and leather, a fact of which he was not 
hitherto aware. 
Zoological Nomenclature.—At the request of Dr. Sharp 
the Secretary read the following note :—“I find that in his 
Address, at the recent Anniversary Meeting of the Society, 
the late President noticed a pamphlet recently published on 
the subject of Zoological Nomenclature. In this notice the 
President states that Dr. Sharp proposes to have ‘three 
names for each species.’ This statement, however, not only 
does not represent what I propose, but is calculated to convey 
such a misconception about my propositions that I do not 
think it would be right to allow it to pass without observation 
from me. So far from having ‘ three names for each species,’ 
it is my object to have but one name for each species. I do 
not consider it desirable that the classificatory name shall be 
used at all as a part of the name of a species. And the main 
object of the pamphlet, noted by the learned President, is to 
facilitate the complete separation of species nomenclature 
from classification nomenclature. Till this object be attained 
there can be no solution of the nomenclature question; and 
the only way of obtaining it is either to establish a separate 
mononymic system of species names, or to adopt the com- 
promise proposed by me.” 
Death of Mr. Deane.—On Saturday, the 4th of April, 
Henry Deane, of Clapham Common, a most painstaking 
entomologist, but unknown as a collector of insects, died 
suddenly of heart disease, in his sixty-seventh year, at Dover, 
whence he was about to embark for the Continent. J can 
scarcely over-rate the ardour or thoroughness with which 
Mr. Deane investigated subjects of natural Science: as an 
instance of this | may mention that when in 1872 the question 
of the food of Syrphide was agitated, and it was discovered 
that these flies fed on dry pollen granules, Mr. Deane was the 
only naturalist in the kingdom who condescended to consider 
the question. He possessed one of those rarely candid minds 
which aims simply at the discovery and promulgation of truth, 
entirely careless how it may interfere with hypothesis. He 
saw almost at the first glance that it was simple pollen 
granules that distended the abdomens of these flies; and 
then he traced the reception of these granules into the 
