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LES “HÉRÉSIES TAXINOMISTES” 
ALDPEIODNSE LL. TIERRA 
Membre de la Société Scientique 
** Antonio Alzate ” 
LETIRES DE MM. HUDSON, HAECKEL, ETC. 
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Liamorna, Dawlish. 
S. Devon. 
England. 
Dear Sir: 
I thank you very much for your paper on “Hérésies taxi- 
nomistes.” 
--.. I knew that scientific nomenclature was both absurd 
and detestable, but I had no idea that 16 was as bad as you ha- 
ve shown iu to be. 
Your notion of getting rid of the name of the Godfather of 
the species, and of adding where necessary the initial of the 
class is right. 
I am quite suro that jf the author you quote had said that 
he had seen an Elasmognathus and a Spindolis waltzing (!) toge- 
ther round a zena slejener 1 should not have been shocked; 
though if he had added that they did to the pipping of a 
Rofulteszecoryzhpnex, 
I think I should have been a little staggered. As for the 
Igotcropecten, Achymeus and the Ornotheca. 
I hope that Chrononhotonthologos and Alderberonteploskyphor- 
mis will feed them on ZLepadotemachoselacho galeocraniobipsano- 
drimups, ete., etc., etc. (you know the rest). The Greeks, when 
