

A 
LIST OF THE GENERA AND FAMILIES OF 
MAMMALS. 51 

Genus, authority, and date. 
In honor of— 



Pichipilus Ameghino, 1890 
Raneuleus Ameghino, 1891 
Ricardolydekkeria Ameghino, 1901... 
Ricardowenia Ameghino, 1901 
Romerolagus Merriam, 1896 
Rudolphius Gray, 1866 
Rutimeyeria Ameghino, 1901 
Scalabrinitherium Ameghino, 1883 ...| 
Selysius Bonaparte, 1841 
Sibbaldus Gray, 1864 
Smutsial Gray, | Sbojsassceee ree cee ee 
Stellera Bowdich, 1821 
Steno Gray, 1546 
Swinhoia Gray, 1866 
Thomashuxleya Ameghino, 1901 
Thomasomys Coues, 1884 ............. 
Trouessartella Cossmann, 1899 
Trouessartia Cossmann, 1899 ......... 
Victorlemoineia Ameghino, 1901 
Wagneria Jentink, 1886 
Washakius Leidy, 1873 
Wortmania Hay, 1899 
Zenkerella Matschie, 1898 
Pichipilu, an Araucanian Indian chief of Patagonia. 
| Raneuleo, an Araucanian Indian chief of Patagonia. 
Richard Lydekker, 1849- 
mammals, birds, and reptiles in the British Museum; 
; author of catalogues of fossil 
‘Geographical History of Mammals’; ‘Royal Natural His- 
tory,’ and numerous other works on mammals. Co- 
authorof ‘ Manualof Paleontology,’ 1889; and ‘Mammals, 
Living and Extinct,’ 1891. 
Sir Richard Owen. (See Euowenia.) 
Don Matias Romero, 1827-1898, Mexican Minister to the 
United States, 18638-1868 and 1882-1898, and who in his offi- 
cial capacity rendered valuable assistance to the U. 8. 
Department of Agriculture in connection with its investi- 
gations in Mexico. 
Karl Asmund Rudolphi, 1771-1832, professor at Greifswald 
and Berlin, comparative anatomist and authority on 

Entozoa; author of * Entozoa seu Vermium Intestinalium 
Historia Naturalis,’ 1808, ete. 
| Ludwig Rütimeyer, 1825-1895, professor of comparative 
| anatomy at Bern, 1853, and Bale, 1855; author of several 
monographs on ungulates, 1863-1881. 
Prof. Pedro Sealabrini, of Paraná, Argentina. 
| Baron Edmond de Sélys-Longchamps, 1813-1900, an. emi- 
nent naturalist and statesman, some time president of 
the Belgian Senate; author of ‘Etudes de Micromam- 
malogie,' 1839, and * Faune Belge,’ 1844. 
| Sir Robert Sibbald, 1641-1722?, author of a paper on the 
whales of Scotland, entitled ‘Balenologia nova,’ 1692, 
and reprinted in 1773. 
Johannes Smuts, a Dutch naturalist who visited Cape 
Colony in the early part of the nineteenth century, 
author of ‘Enumeratio Mammalium Capensium,’ 1832. 
George Wilhelm Steller, 1709-1745, discoverer of the sea 
cow. 
Nikolaus Steno, 1638-1687, a celebrated Danish anatomist 
and geologist. 
Robert Swinhoe, 1836-1877, British consul at Amoy, Shang- 
hai, Ningpo, Cheefoo, and Formosa. 
Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895; author of ‘The Theory 
of the Vertebrate Skull,’ 1859; ‘Evidence of Man’s Place 
in Nature,’ 1863; ‘Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated 
Animals,’ 1871; and many special papers on anatomy and 
zoology. 
Oldfield Thomas. 

(See Oldfieldthomasia. ) 
Vedonard Louis Trouessart. (See Edvardotrouessartia. ) 
J 
Victor Lemoine. 
Johann Andreas Wagner, 1797-1861, formerly professor of 
zoology at the University of Munich; author of the sup- 
plement to Schreber’s ‘Siiugthiere,’ 1840-1 
Washakie, a chief of the Shoshone Indians of Wyoming. 
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855. 
Jacob Lawson Wortman,1856- ,authorof numerous papers 
on vertebrate paleontology. 
G. Zenker, director of the * Yaunde-Station, East Africa, 
who collected the type specimen. 


