802 THE PERMANENCY OF SPECIFIC NAMES. 
upon the progress of that work, and its methods as regards nomen- 
-elature. re is at least one mode of procedure announced which 
ply re 
— Say, the loose ethics of it. Assuredly he who is pre- 
ages to say that the “rule” demanding retention of specific names 
tis paying ut a poor com: : gee ‘ 
= : pliment to the dignity of Science to 
suppose that her interests may truly be subserved by our working, 
ae y kind. T 
oo that they ought not to do so will avail nothing; 
ts who respect the rule which makes for fixity follow 
on of their newly-coined names, an he 
, when by so doin 
Sai: Oa rule which they disrespect, and which 
: ‘iactions retted respect so long as other authors copy their in- 
__, One is not well able to see how the kind of 
nee } practice here con- 
So setoianig ot es likely to be the offspring of vanity than of a 
promote Science.” not v i 
cam mngenia Occupation in ing new and supposedly 
ee than in adopting the ready-made ones? There 
