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our science cannot be permanently hindered by individual 

 prejudice or reactionary pleas. 



Ernst Hartert. 



f. c. 11. jourdain. 



N. F. TlCEHURST. 

 H. F. WiTHERBY. 



February 24tli, 1913. 



Sir, — I have just received tlie January number of 'The 

 Ibis/ and I lose no time in telling you how pleased I have 

 been in reading Mr. P. L. Sclater's paper on Zoological 

 nomenclature. I fully agree with him in every respect. 

 Last summer I received from a German Society an invita- 

 tion to subscribe to a protest against the law of priority. I 

 refused to do it, or, more exactly, I did not answer it. More 

 recently I have received from Dr. Hartert a second 

 invitation to strictly adhere to that law. I told him that I 

 admit the law of priority, bur cum grano satis, and beginning 

 with the twelfth edition of Linnaeus. The acceptance of the 

 tenth edition has been the excuse of the actual confusion. 

 For my part I shall stick to the twelfth edition to the end. 



Perhaps it would be possible to draw up a list of names of 

 those who follow the Stricklandian code, in opposition to 

 those of the new school. 



I am. Sir, 



Yours &c., 



T. Salvadori. 



Turin, 

 January 25th, 1913. 



Sir, — I have read with much interest Dr. Sclater's 

 commentary on the new ' Hand-List of British Birds/ as 

 his claim for the Stricklandian Code is important at the 

 present time. 



I have been called an ultra-prioritarian, and it should be 

 remembered that Strickland was the father of the Law of 

 Priority, and by his own writings would now be considered 



