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he makes the following reference to Dr. Berthold Laufer's paper, 

 published in part 2 of the present volume of the Quarterly Issue. 



"In the paper by Mr. Laufer on the relations of the Chinese to the 

 Philippines, I find, on page 277, a reference to a statement by Ver- 

 biest (1673) regarding a tree in the Philippines that causes the death 

 of those approaching it. 



"The tree in question is the so-called 'Upas tree' of Malayan fables, 

 Antiaris toxicara, regarding which the most fabulous accounts have 

 been written, and which are admirably summarized by Robert Brown 

 in Bennett, Brown and Horsefield, Plantae Javanicse Rariores, pp. 53- 

 63, in English, while an extensive account of it is also given by Blume 

 in Rumphia 1 : 56." 



Change oe Name Ethelumoris to Ethelomorus 



In Dr. Harriet Richardson's paper on Terrestrial Isopods of the 

 family Eubelidse, published September ]2, 1907, in part 2 of the 

 present volume of the Quarterly Issue, an error of transcription was 

 made by the author in the spelling of the genus name Ethelomorus 

 (misspelled Ethelumoris) . Inasmuch as this is equivalent to a typo- 

 graphical error, according to the rules in nomenclature it should be 

 corrected and the spelling Ethelomorus adopted. The name is de- 

 rived from the related genus Ethelum and the Greek 'd/xopos, neigh- 

 bor. — Harriet Richardson. 



