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thologie he did not see the loth edition (1758) until after the 4th 

 volume was printed/ 



Compare the above list with the following list from Linnaeus' 6th 

 edition (1748) and identically repeated in the 9th edition (1756) 

 of the Sy sterna Naturae: 



Fringilla (6 ed., p. 30) 



1. Fringilla 



2. Fringilla crista flammea 



3. Fringilla 



4. Carduelis vulgaris 



5. Carduelis lapponica 



6. Carduelis lulensis 



7. Montifringilla 



8. Spinus 



9. Canaria 



10. Linaria major 



11. Linaria minor 



12. Passer domesticus 



Noting that Linnaeus only enumerates species mentioned in his 

 Fauna Suecica, 1746, while Brisson listed all the species known to 

 him, and that Brisson regarded Carduelis as a distinct genus, while 

 Linnaeus referred Cliloris to the genus Einberisa, the similarity be- 

 tween Brisson's scheme of 1760 and Linnaeus' of 1748-1756 is so 

 obvious that there is no need of further discussing the claim for 

 originality and peculiarity made in behalf of Brisson's method. Nor 

 is it necessary to repeat that just as Linnaeus was a zoological bina- 

 rian in 1 748-1 766, so was Brisson still in 1760 and after. The 

 difiference between the two men is only that Brisson did not turn 

 binominalist. 



Gronovius, who as we have seen, was a binarian like Linnaeus him- 

 self in 1754 (Museum Ichthyologicum ) and remained so in his Zoo- 

 phylacium, published in 1763- 1764, added a number of new genera of 

 his own, but they are on the same plane and subject to the same rules. 

 Whenever in his former work (1754) he gave his authority for the 

 generic name, he gives no further reference in 1763, but when in the 

 later work he introduces a genus not before treated of by himself 

 he gives his authority thus : Tardigradus. Brisson. Quadr. gen. 3., 

 or Capra. Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. gen. 31. In enumerating the in- 

 sects, he credits more than 40 generic names to the loth edition of 



'Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 28, 1910, p. 319. 



