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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 553. 



The July number of the Journal of Nervous 

 and Mental Diseases opens with the presiden- 

 tial address delivered at the meeting of the 

 American Neurological Association, June 1, 

 1905, by Dr. William G. Spiller. Dr. Spiller 

 follows a custom more prevalent abroad than 

 at home on such occasions and discusses a 

 subject of general interest, namely, disturb- 

 ances in the associated movements of the eyes 

 as affording a sign of localizing value in 

 lesions of the brain. He makes an exhaustive 

 summary of the literature and adds reports of 

 a number of cases of his own, with numerous 

 illustrations. The paper is to be continued 

 in the next number. The second article is by 

 Dr. Smith Ely Jeliffe, of New York, on ' Dis- 

 pensary Work in Nervous Diseases,' being a 

 report of the clinic of Professor M. Allen 

 Starr for the year 1904. This is followed by 

 a paper by Dr. Eobert H. Chase, of Philadel- 

 phia, on ' Delusions of the Insane.' 



The contents of the Journal of Infectious 

 Diseases is as follows : 



Tii-ESTON, Wilder, and Locke, Edwin A. : ' The 

 Blood in Scarlet Fever.' 



WiTEKEY, Wm. B., and McDill, John E,. : ' Notes 

 on a Base of Hematochyluria, Together with Some 

 Observations on the Morphology of the Embryo 

 Nematode — Filaria Nocturna.' 



BuTTERFiELD, Elmoee E. : ' Case of Pulmonary 

 Infection Avith an Acid-fast Actinomycosis.' 



Edwards, Ralph T. : 'Bacillus Mycogenes {Bac- 

 terium Mucogenum) Nov. Spec, an Organism Be- 

 longing to the Bacillus Mucosus Capsulatus 

 Group.' 



Wherry, Wm. B. : 'A Search into the Nitrate 

 and Nitrite Content of Witte's " Peptone " with 

 Special Reference to its Influence on the Demon- 

 stration of the Indol and Cholera Red Reactions.' 



Weaver, George H., and Tunniclift, Ruth: 

 ' The Occurrence of Fusiform Bacilli and Spirilla 

 in Connection with Morbid Processes.' 



Manwareing, W. H. : 'A Quantitative Study 

 of Hemolytic Serum.' 



Manwareing, W. H. : ' The Absorption of 

 Hemolytic Amboceptor.' 



Robinson, G. C. : ' The Role of the Typhoid 

 Bacillus in the Pulmonary Complications of 

 Typhoid Fever.' 



Jordan, E. 0. : ' Thermostalbe, Hemolytic Pre- 

 cipitate from Nutrient Broth.' 



GwYN, N. B. and Harris, N. MacL. : ' A Com- 

 parison between the Results of Blood Cultures 

 Taken During Life and After Death.' 



Guthrie, CO.: 'A Contribution to the Clinical 

 Knowledge of Texas Fever.' 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



ANCIENT GREEK FISH AND OTHER NAMES. 



In Science for July 7 (p. 23) Dr. C. R. 

 Eastman has given some valuable references 

 to authors treating of the ancient Greek 

 names of fishes but has omitted notice of the 

 most important and trustworthy of all. Be- 

 sides other data, Olivier and Valenciennes, in 

 their ' Histoire Naturelle des Poissons ' (1828- 

 1849), have embodied quite full notices of the 

 ancient literature concerning the species they 

 treat of. Their greatly superior knowledge 

 of the fauna of the Greek peninsula ana archi- 

 pelago enabled them to make better identifica- 

 tions than any of their predecessors. It is 

 from the neglect of that great work, and not 

 of Artedi's, that Hoffman and Jordan have 

 failed to make their contribution as valuable 

 as it might have been. Had they used the 

 work they would not have fallen into the error 

 of confusing the accounts of the axaptio and 

 dTzdfio^ as they have done — and as Apostolides 

 also has done ! In most respects Hoffman 

 and Jordan's work is excellent. 



I can by no means assent to the estimate 

 as to ^ the extremely valuable historical and 

 bibliographical works of Artedi.' Indeed, 

 there are few errors more deplorable than 

 Artedi's misidentifications which have en- 

 tailed on ichthyological nomenclature such 

 monstrosities as the use of Esox (corrnpted 

 from a Gallic or Teutonic name of the stur- 

 geon) for the pike, of Echeneis (a blenny) 

 for the sea suckers, of Exocoetus (a goby or 

 blenny) for the flying fishes, of Trigla (a sur- 

 mullet) for the gurnards, and of Gallionymus 

 (a stargazer) for the dragonets. The example 

 thus set was followed by Linne and others, so 

 that most of the Greek names now in use for 

 fish genera have a signification neither justi- 

 fied by ancient usage nor by analogy. 



A new English translation of Aristotle's 

 zoological works is a great desideratum. The 

 old translations are poor and inferior to 



