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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 19, 



Bowditcli, Harvard Medical School ; Dr. F. 

 S. Lee, College of Physicians and Surgeons; 

 Dr. C. F. Hodge, Clark University; Dr. O. 

 S. Strong, Columbia College; Dr. C. S. Minot, 

 Harvard Medical School; Dr. J. S. Kingsley, 

 Tuft's College; Dr. J. P. McMurrich, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan; Dr. H. F. Osborn, 

 Columbia College. 



Applications for admission to the labo- 

 ratory for students and teachers should be 

 made to Prof. H. C. Bumpus, Brown Uni- 

 versity, Providence, E. I. 



The laboratory work in Botany (July 

 10- August 17) will be restricted to the 

 study of the structure and development of 

 types of the various orders of the crj^pto- 

 gamous plants, and especial attention will 

 be given to the study of the various species 

 of Marine Algae which occur so abun- 

 dantly in the waters about Woods Holl. 



The following colleges and societies con- 

 trolled private rooms or tables during the 

 season of 1894: 



Boston University School of Medicine, 

 Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, 

 College of Medicine, Syi'acuse University, 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Colum- 

 bia College, Hamilton College, Harvard 

 University (Professor Far low). Lake Forest 

 University (President Coulter), Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, Miami Uni- 

 versity, Mt. Holyoke College, Missouri Bo- 

 tanical Garden, Northwestern University, 

 Princeton College, Smith College, University 

 of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania (Provost Harrison) , 

 Vassar College, Wellesley college, "Williams 

 College, Women's College Baltimore, Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, American Society of Naturalists, 

 Beta Alpha Chapter of the K. K. G. Fra- 

 ternity of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 Lucretia Crocker Scholarship, Woman's 

 School Alliance Milwaukee. 



THE GENERIC NAMES OF THE THREE-TOED 

 ECHIDNA. 



The three-toed Echidna discovered by M. 

 Bruijn in northwestern New Guinea, and 

 described by Peters and Doria in 1876 as 

 Tacky glossit-i bruijnii, has been coninionlj' 

 recognized as belonging to a different genus 

 from the common iive-toed Echidna of Tas- 

 mania and Australia. Although the species 

 was described less than twenty years ago, 

 four generic names have been proposed for 

 it. Early in 1877 Dr. Theodore Gill erected 

 the genus Zaglos.ms* for it, and Gervais sepa- 

 rated it in November of the same j'ear 

 under the name Acanthoglosms ;y but a few 

 days later, finding that this name had been 

 pre-occupied, he renamed the genus Proe- 

 chidna.X Five years later M. Dubois pro- 

 posed to replace Acanthoglossus by Bruynia.^ 



Of these four names Proechidna has come 

 into general use, while Zaglossus Gill seems 

 never to have been mentioned by any sub- 

 sequent author. My attention was first 

 called to it several months ago by Dr. Gill 

 himself, who suggested that it would prob- 

 ably antedate Proechidna, but no copj' of 

 Gervais' Osteographie being at hand I could 

 not determine which name had priority. 

 Recently I have had an opportunity of ex- 

 amining a copy of the Osteogi-aphie des 

 Monotremes, and find that not only does 

 Zaglossxis antedate Proechidna, but in fact it 

 was the earliest name proposed for the 

 genus, and should be adopted to the exclu- 

 sion of all the others. 



The second chapter of the Osteographie, 

 apparently the only part of the text ever 

 published, contains the name Proechidna on 

 page 43. In the introductory foot-note on 



*Ann. Record of Science & ImUistry for 1876, 

 May 5, 1877, p. clxxi. 



fComptes Rendus, Ixxxv., No. 19, seance dn 5 

 Nov., 1877, p. '838. 



J Osteographie des Monotremes Viv. et Fossiles, 

 Nov. 30, 1877, p. 43. 



?Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, vi. No. 6 (1881) 1883, 

 pp. 267-270, pis. ix-x. 



