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regard to its flowers, leaves, or fruit ; and, finally, that it is of 
importance that the specific name should be very brief and 
concise.” 
Tournefort applied these principles mainly to Botany, and 
very many of his names are adopted by Linnzus, who fully 
recognized the great value of his work. 
M. Blanchard next emphasizes again very strongly the 
claims of C. N. Lang as the author of the Binomial system as 
regards Mollusca, and his immediate followers, Klein and 
Adanson. It introduces no matter of interest that had not 
been already dealt with at the former convention. 
The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., published in Nov., 
1894, and April, 1896, two very interesting articles,; which have 
since been reprinted as separate pamphlets, on the “ Rules ot 
Nomenclature in Zoology” and on ‘“ Random Publishing and 
Rules of Priority.” 
In the paper on “ Random Publication,” he suvvests the 
possibility of one central medium for each science, e.g., that all 
new Mollusca (p. 343) should be published in France or 
Germany. I am afraid this very Utopian scheme is impracti- 
able ; were it possible, I, for one, should vote for the Mollusca 
being published in British journals, 
In his pamphlet on the ‘ Rules of Nomenclature in 
Zoology,’ Mr. Stebbing criticizes the recent meeting of the 
Zoological Society of London, to which we have already alluded, 
and their discussion on the revision of the Stricklandian Code 
and that of the German Zoological Society. ‘The author seems 
to agree with the alterations proposed, as indeed do I, and it 
would be a very great satisfaction if this concession—for con- 
cession it is—on the part of the biologists of our country should 
tend in part to unite scientists of different countries more 
closely, and enable them to frame in unison an indisputable 
code that admits of no question and of no doubt. ‘ Natura 
+ ‘‘ Natural Science,” vol. v., Nov., 1804, and vol. viii., April, 18¢6. 
