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While a circumstantial report of the work accomplished at Naples 
has never been required, those whose applications are approved are 
requested to notify the Secretary at the close of a session, and at 
the same time to present a brief outline of their investigations. In 
this way the institution is able to keep in touch not only with the 
work of its special appointees, but also to obtain an interesting insight 
into the admirable methods employed at the Station for the accommo- 
dation of investigators. A summary of the data thus submitted has 
appeared at intervals in the Smithsonian publications, the action of 
the Institution in this connection being designed to interfere in no 
way with the plans of the author as to publication elsewhere. 
Doctor J. B. JonNson of the West Virginia University occupied 
the Smithsonian table from September 1, 1904, through February, 
1905, during which time he completed an article on “ The Morphol- 
ogy of the Vertebrate Head from the Viewpoint of the Functional 
Divisions of the Nervous System,” and a paper on “ The Cranial 
Nerve Components of Petromyzon.” He also made a study of 
Amphioxus and devoted some time to the comparative study of the 
brain of selachians. Additional papers containing further results 
of his work will be published later. 
Doctor Stewart Paton, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, 
occupied the table for three weeks from April 1, 1905. 
NoTE ON THE NAME HENDERSONIA 
In SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, quarterly issue, 
No. 1590, p. 187, July 1, 1905, I proposed the name Hendersonia 
for a remarkable new genus of Urocoptide from Mexico. I am 
now informed that in a publication by Wagner (Vienna, 1905) en- 
titled ‘ Helicineen Studien,’ which has not yet reached our library, 
the same name has been proposed for our well known Helicina 
occulta Say. 
I would therefore modify the name proposed by me into Hender- 
soniella in order to avoid the conflict which renders the later use of 
the name impracticable——WILLIAM HEALEY DALL, July 12, 1905. 
