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d Herculais, Dr. Blanchard, Dr. Jousseaume, Dr. Jullien, 
and the Report was prepared by M. Chaper. 
Certain changes from the proposals of the British and 
N. American Reports are recommended. 
One important rule suggested for the future is that the 
genitival termination shall be used for personal names. 
And, as regards the law of priority, it is pointed out that 
Tournefort de Pitton, in 1700, consistently applied for the first 
time the binomial principle in his “ Institutiones rei herbariz,” 
that the same author towards the close of his life, in 1708, 
attempted to apply the same rule to the mollusca, and that 
Gualtieri, in 1742, published this posthumous work. 
It is also shewn that Lang, in 1722, published his ‘* Metho- 
dus nova et facilis testacea marina in suas debitas classes, 
genera, et species distribuendi.” Here Groups, Families, and 
Orders are not signalized, but to some extent Genera and 
Species are handled. 
J. T. Klein, 1731—1753, is next mentioned as still further 
perfecting the system, especially as regards the mollusca. 
Breyn is shewn, in 1732, to have expressly mentioned, at 
the head of the first chapter of his treatise, that he contemplated 
treating ‘“‘Speciatim de methodo testas in classes genera et 
species distribuendi.” 
Linneeus is then quoted, with regard to the first edition 
(1735) of his “Systema Naturae;” genera also here being 
unequivocally dealt with, and no species being cited. Lang, 
it is further argued, had, thirteen years previously, solved the 
question Linnzeus had hardly begun to work out. 
As regards Mollusca, the published names of genera and 
species of J. T. Klein and Adanson are then brought forward, 
and it is urged that they should be all adopted in preference to 
the Linnzan or Lamarckian. It is shewn that Klein had 
established the genera Zympanotonos and Vertagus ; Adanson 
