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APPENDIX A. 



y. /// favorer of idae, inae. 



I Kirby, 2 Staudinger, 3 Aurivillius (=-) 



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Against idae, inae. 



I Hampson, 2 Walsingham, 3 Meyrick, 4 Fernald, 5 Smith, 6 Grote. 



■? - 6 . . 



Result ; majority agamst the use of z^^^, z//flr^. 



9 



[All are in favour of the terminations dae, nae. Those who favour 

 iadae, ianae are in a minority as are also those who prefer iidae, iinae or 

 idae, inae ! 



The meeting of the International Congress of Zoology at Cambridge 

 is most opportune under these circumstances, and it is to be hoped that 

 eminent classical scholars may be induced to attend and pronounce with 

 authority a conclusive decision on this subject.] Durrani. 



REPLIES. 



63. Hampson (Sir G. F.). 12 Sept. 1896. 



" That the terminations iadae, ianae be accepted as more 

 classically correct, for though the British Association rules say 

 that the terminations shall be idae and inae this was meant to 

 apply to the form of the patronymic and not to the use of the 

 double ' /' and that using iadae, ianae will be taking the rule in its 

 spirit not in its letter." 



[Vide Hampson 73. Durrani^ 



64. Walsingham (Lord). 



" iidae and iinae are incorrect and ianae and iadae should be 

 used. 



The Committee of the British Association had no power to 

 promulgate the employment of terms not orthographically written 

 and there is no evidence that they had such intentions. Whether 

 they had or had not matters little, the question is orthographical 

 not zoological and must be determined by laws of grammatical 

 usage. The terminations dae and nae must be accepted but the 

 preceding coincidence of vowels is merely circumstantial and must 

 be dealt with accordingly." 



65. Meyrick (E.). 



" The correctness of -iadae, -ianae, in place of -iidae, -iinae, has 

 never been impugned by any competent orthographical authority, 

 and is undoubted. The Committee's promulgation of -idae, -inae 

 as invariable is doubtless a mere lapsus ; they should have written 

 -dae, -nae, but overlooked at the moment the existence of the two 

 forms. I adopt the correct orthography." 



