THE 



JOURNAL OF MALACOLOGY. 



No, I. March 25TH, 1901. Vol. VIII. 



NOTES ON THE REFERENCES FOR 



AUTHORSHIP OF SPECIES, AS GIVEN IN JEFFREYS, 



BRITISH CONCHOLOGY, VOLUMES ll-V. 



By the Rev. A. H. COOKE, M.A., F.Z.S., 

 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Head Master of Aldenham School. 



I WAS enabled to publish, in Vol. vii of this Journal, pp. 59 — 64, 

 some Notes on the nomenclature of British Nudibranchiata, with 

 special reference to Jeffreys, British Condi., vol. v. The corrections 

 there found necessary were extensive and, in some cases, of importance. 

 I have been asked to continue the process then initiated, and to 

 apply it to the remainder of "Jeffreys." The present paper is the 

 result. 



The notes must be read throughout with close reference to the 

 pages of Jeffreys. It has not been attempted to introduce uniformity 

 into his citations of the same work or volume, but only to correct them 

 when erroneous. For instance, he refers in successive pages (iii, 246) 

 to"Prodr. Zool. Dan.," and (iii, 248, 250) to " Prodr. Z. D.," and 

 (iii, 252) to "Prod. Z. D.," but I have made no correction, though 

 the title of the work is Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus. But I have 

 thought it desirable, when Linne has described a species as e.g. Venus 

 Gallina, not to acquiesce in his being reported as describing it as 

 Venu^ gallina. Qivite apart from the question of fact, important 

 results may follow from observing the use of the capital or the small 

 letter, as I have endeavoured to show in this Journal, in a paper 



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