September 29, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Trinil remains. This is very interesting. 

 The author gives ns the names of the three 

 groups of anatomists who consider the remains 

 human, simian and intermediate, respectively. 

 The first group is essentially English, the sec- 

 ond German and the third composite. Duck- 

 worth joins the last group, though admitting 

 that the femur may be human. It is un- 

 fortunate that, having given so much space 

 to this interesting question, he has not dis- 

 cussed the evidence that the pieces belong to 

 one individual. 



There are many other points which it would 

 be interesting, at least to your reviewer, to 

 discuss at length; but enough has probably 

 been said to show that in his opinion it is a 

 very good and useful hand-book. 



T. D. 



School Science and Mathematics. The bio- 

 logical section, of which Professor Caldwell 

 was formerly editor, has been divided into two 

 sections, a zoological section and a botanical 

 section. Professor Caldwell remains the 

 botanical editor. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The September issue of the Journal of 

 Comparative Neurology and Psychology con- 

 tains the following articles: 'A Study of the 

 Functions of Different Parts of the Prog's 

 Brain,' by Wilhelm Loeser. The brain was 

 experimentally examined by the extirpation 

 of various regions (twenty-two operations) 

 and study of the deficiency phenomena and 

 other symptoms. ' The Central Gustatory 

 Paths in the Brains of Bony Fishes,' by C. 

 Judson Herrick. This paper (which was 

 awarded the Cartwright prize for this year) 

 is a continuation of the author's previous 

 studies on nerve components, in course of 

 which the peripheral gustatory system has 

 been isolated and experimentally studied in 

 fishes. Selecting the types in which this sys- 

 tem attains its maximum development, the 

 central gustatory paths are demonstrated by 

 various microscopical methods, the research 

 including a description, accompanied by forty 

 figures, of the conduction paths for all of the 

 important gustatory reactions which have been 

 experimentally observed in the normal life of 

 these fishes. The central gustatory centers 

 are found to be more closely related to the 

 central olfactory system than to any other part 

 of the brain. 



Professor Prank Smith, of the University 

 of Illinois, has been made zoological editor of 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



THE LETTER K IN ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



There are some influential zoologists who, 

 in their zeal for the integrity of scientific 

 Latin (or Neolatin), propose to change the 

 letters k and w, wherever they occur, into 

 c and V. Thus Sir G. P. Hampson, in his 

 great work on the moths of the world, cites 

 a species as Episilia voccei, the specific 

 name being a new rendering of wochei, orig- 

 inally proposed by Moeschler. Unfortunately, 

 this method results in some unexpected dupli- 

 cation of names. Thus Gray, in 1846, ap- 

 plied the generic name Kogia to the pygmy 

 sperm whale. Butler, in 1870, used Cogia for 

 a valid genus of butterflies, which is recog- 

 nized to-day by Dr. Dyar as occurring in our 

 own fauna. Now Dr. D. G. Elliot, in a recent 

 work, amends the name of the whale to Cogia, 

 and if this is accepted the name of the butter- 

 fly-genus must fall. It is true "that Elliot's 

 Cogia is later than Butler's, but it is proposed 

 as the correct way of spelling Gray's genus, 

 and not intended in any sense as a new name. 



Theobald has lately proposed Cellia as the 

 name of a genus of mosquitoes. But in 1822 

 Turton named a valid genus of mollusca 

 Kellia. According to the Hampson-EUiot 

 method this becomes Cellia, and the mosquito- 

 genus name is a homonym. 



Kallima was proposed by Westwood in 1850 

 as the name of a well-known genus of butter- 

 flies. In 1860 Clemens named a valid genus 

 of moths Callima. Now Dr. Dyar, because of 

 Kallima, has named the moth genus Epical- 

 lima. 



Again, Cnephasia, Curtis, interferes with 

 Knephasia, Tepper. 



A curious case occurs in a genus of African 

 moths, Xanthospilopteryx. In 1893 Carpenter 

 named a species X. Mrhyi, but it is a synonym 

 of pardalina. Walker. In 1897 Holland 



