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Barbarous names and mythological terms, applied without 
reason, are deprecated. 
Comparative names, with the affix -zdes, -ordes, -formis, etc., 
to be avoided as much as possible. 
Generic and specific names from persons to be used with 
care, and only when the persons have deserved such commemo- 
ration. 
Hybrid and corrupt names derived from Latin and Greek, 
English and Latin, etc., to be severely discountenanced, as also 
names too nearly resembling each other, though not quite 
identical. Nonsense names likewise come under this category. 
Synonyms had better not be resuscitated again as new 
genera, as this would cause confusion. 
Generic names to be written with a capital, and all specific 
names, even those derived from persons, with a small letter. 
The name of the author of the species to follow in abbre- 
viated form, whether written or printed, and it is recommended 
that the authority for a specific name when not applying to the 
generic name also, should be followed by the distinctive expres- 
sion ‘‘sp.,” or be placed within brackets. 
IV.—REVISION OF THE STRICKLANDIAN CODE, 1864. 
In 1864, at the Meeting of the British Association at Bath, 
a committee was appointed to report on any revision it might be 
necessary to make in the above rules, as drawn up by Mr. 
H. E. Strickland.* Unfortunately that gentleman had died 
eleven years previously. The ten surviving members of the 
original committee had already been re-appointed, with Sir 
William Jardine, Bart., as reporter, as long ago as the Oxford 
Meeting in 1860, to consider this question, but nothing had 
been done in the matter, mainly owing to the extreme difficulty 
of bringing such a committee together. Accordingly, a new 
* Hugh Edwin Strickland, F.R.S., born 1811, accidentally killed at Clarborough, 
near Gainsborough, 14th September, 1853, wéde ‘‘ Memoirs,’ by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., 
1858, ‘‘ Atheneum,” 1853, p. 1125. 
