THE 
AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Art. I.— Notice of some Works, recently published, on the No- 
menclature of Zoology ; by Aucustus A. Goutp, M. D. 
Report of a Committee (of the British Association ) appointed 
“to consider the rules by which the Nomenclature of Zoology 
may be established on a uniform and permanent basis.” 
pp. 17, 8vo., Lond. 1842. 
Nomenclator Zoologicus, continens Nomina Systematica Gene- 
rum Animalium tam viventium quam fossilium, etc. ; auctore 
L. Agassiz. Ato. Soloduri, 1842. 
Tue British Association for the Advancement of Science has 
undertaken one task, for which it will receive the hearty thanks 
of zoologists. It has undertaken to interpose the weight of its 
authority in arrest of the growing abuses in nomenclature, and of 
the injustice which some zoologists have allowed themselves to 
practice towards their predecessors. None need this legislation, 
and none will have more cause to be grateful for it, than Ameri- 
can zoologists. We have now a host of naturalists rising up, 
none of them having made any great advances in science, con- 
scious that in this new country they must be surrounded with un- 
described objects, and each eager to attach his name to as many 
species as he may, as though this would indicate the measure of 
his attainments. rom an impatience at investigation, and from 
having no large libraries or standard collections of objects, by 
reference to which doubts might be readily solved, there has 
already arisen among us such a burden of synonyms as to be 
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