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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



GILL, Theodore — Continued, 

 examples of words "erroneously defined and 

 illustrations [that] do not illustrate," Ophidium 

 and Ophidioid are noted and Ophidioid rede- 

 fined. 



"Eulachon" and its variants. 



Notes and Queries (9), xn, Dec. 5, 1903, 

 pp. 444, 445. 

 In answer to a request for information, the 

 Variants of the name of the Candle-fish of 

 Washington and British Columbia (Thaleich- 

 thys pacificus) are enumerated and in some 

 instances commented on. "In chronological 

 sequence of publication they are Ulken (Gass, 

 1807), Olthen (Lewis and Clark, 1814), Uth- 

 lecan (Irving, 1836), Oulachan (Richardson, 

 183G), Eulachon (Lord, 1866), Oulacon (Scam- 

 mon, 1874), Hoolakin (J. and G., 1881), Oola- 

 chan (Nature, 1881), Oolackan (Baillie-Groh- 

 man, 1886), Oulachon (Century Diet., 1890), 

 Oolakan (N. £. D. 1903). 



A remarkable genus of fishes — the 



Umbras. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls, xlv, Quar. issue, 

 I, pts. 3, 4, Apr. 11, 1904, pp. 295-305, 

 with 5 figs. 

 A summary is given of (1) the bibliograph- 

 ical history of the genus, followed by (2) a 

 notice of its place in the system; (3) an ac- 

 count of the habits of the species is the most 

 prominent feature; (4) the distinctive char- 

 acters of the three species, and (5) a notice of 

 the desiderata to complete the biographies. 



The Encyclopaedia Americana on 



Ichthyology. 



Science (new series), xix, No. 486, Apr. 

 22, 1904, pp. 675, 676. 

 Attention is called to the careless editorial 

 handling of an article on "Ichthyology" by 

 Dr. D. S. Jordan, and the misnaming of many 

 (twelve) figures. The act is declared to be a 

 wrong to the public as well as author of the 

 article; the latter should be relieved of re- 

 sponsibility for the errors noted. 



Vernacular names of animals. [A 



notice of Nemnich's "Allgemeines 

 Polyglotten Lexicon der Naturges- 



chichte."] 



Am. Naturalist (xxxvui), No. 447, March, 

 1904 (published May 3, 1904), pp. 241, 242. 



"Horses" not horses. 



Science (new series), xix, No. 488, May 6, 

 1904. pp. 737, 738. 

 A notice of a number of errors in a little 

 book entitled " The Tree Dwellers,'' in which 

 the assumption is made that the ancestors of 

 the horses had live toes and lived partly in 

 trees. The error of such an assumption is 

 pointed out and protest is made against the 

 use of the word horse for the ancient forms, 

 which really belonged to a different family 

 from the recent horses. It should certainly 



GILL, Theodore — Continued. 



not be used for the eocene many toed form 

 named Hyracotherium, which is differentiated 

 " as the representative of a peculiar family — 

 the Hyracotheriids." Objection is also made 

 •' to the assumption that the early represent- 

 atives of the equine phylum were striped like 

 a zebra. * * * The evidence, such as it is, 

 is against the assumption.'' 



Non-education of the young by 



parents. 



scii nee (new series), xix, No. 492, June 3, 

 1904, pp. 861,862. 

 In connection with pending discussions, 

 attention is called to the ••annual fishes'' of 

 the family of Gobies known as Aphya pellu- 

 cida and Crystallogabius » ilsson ii. The parents 

 die when the breeding season is over, and con- 

 sequently the young have no care takers or 

 exemplars. An analogous instance is fur- 

 nished by the salmons of the genus Oncorhyn- 

 chus, the parents dying soon after their pro- 

 creative duties have been discharged. As all 

 the parents die. " the young can not have the 

 benefit of parental instruction or of learning 

 through association with their elders." 



The name mammal and the idea 



expressed. 



Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1903 (1904), pp. 

 537-544. 

 The main portion of "The story of a name — 

 mammals," published by the author in the 

 Popular Science Monthly for September, 1902, 

 are embodied in the present article, but much 

 additional matter and literary illustrations 

 are intercalated and added. 



GIRTY, George H. Tritidtes, a new- 

 genus of Carboniferous foraminifers. 



Am. Journ. Sci., xvn, Mar., 1904, pp. 234- 

 240, text figures. 

 Calls attention to the American so-called 

 Fusvlina, that they have not the interior 

 structure of the Russian genus, and therefore 

 proposes Triticites for the American form 

 passing as Ftisidina cylindrica. This should be 

 called Triticites secalicus Say. 



New molluscan genera from the 



Carboniferous. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xxvn, No. 1372, 

 June 1, 1904, pp. 721-736, pis. 45-47. 



This paper defines the new genera Limipee- 

 trn, Plriinipkorella, and Clavulites. Also the 

 new species L. texanvs, L. ti.nanis ffrandicos- 

 tahts, J', papillosa, and C. howardensis. The 

 genus Orthotetes Fischer de Waldhcim proves 

 to be the same structurally as Waagen's later 

 proposed Derbya, and the latter is, therefore, 

 a synonym. For Waagen's redefinition and 

 misinterpretation of Ortliotlittcs, the present 

 author proposes the new name Schuchertella, 

 using as his genotype Streptorhynchus lens 

 White. 



