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in zoological literature must be chaste simplicity, but journalese 
is not simple, nor is it chaste. Superfluous words, words 
issued to startle or confound without thought of their precise 
grammatical to write in describing an insect: ‘* body black ; 
the legs are brown.” 
_ I would advise every zoologist to study Sir Arthur Quiller- 
Couch’s lectures. On The Art of Writing. He will find some 
hard sayings. With many others, I have found the state- 
ment that a case can only meana box not a little disconcerting, 
from both a philological and a literary point of view but the 
fact that such statements make us feel uncomfortable proves 
that they contain an element of truth. 
Apart from literary style in the writing of zoological 
papers, the question of the mechanical preparation of the 
editor of the Record and Memoirs of the Indian Museum I often 
receive manuscripts that need many hours’ careful and trouble- 
some work before they can be sent to the printer. If it were 
name of the genus of the species has been changed since the 
adays are more than ‘‘ Scarabees.” This 1s an immoral met 
not only because no man has the right to narrow Pe ie? et . oO 
a single family of beetles, but also because the whole o : ‘4 logy 
is at present encumbered with uncoordinated details t _ g 
the machinery of progress instead of ve 08 arpa a 
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