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Leland Stanfoi'd Junior University Publications | university series | The 

 Genera of Fishes | from Linnaeus to Cuvier, 1758-1833, seventy-five 

 years, | with the accepted type of each. | A contribution to the 

 stability of scientific nomenclature. | By | David Starr Jordan | 

 assisted by | Barton Warren Evermann | Stanford University, Cali- 

 fornia I published by the University | 1917 | Paper, 1-161. Price, $1. 



This publication considers the status of the genera of fishes 

 that have been proposed in 164 publications by one hundred and 

 odd authors, beginning with the tenth edition of the Systema of 

 Linnseus, 1758, and ending with the Poissons Fossiles of Louis 

 Agassiz, 1833. 



The object of the work has been the fixation of the generic 

 types and, incidentally, the determination of the validity of the 

 genera treated. Doctor Jordan very appropriately calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that "efforts to secure stability in nomenclature 

 by fiat," using names more or less current, without serious re- 

 gard to the law of priority, should be resisted. "To accept this 

 plan would merely accentuate the confusion already existing and 

 which has arisen through just such disregard of fundamental 

 rules." The generic names, with their types, proposed by each 

 author are listed under the respective publications. Notes on 

 the status of publications, names, and synonyms, and much other 

 information that will be of help to the Commission of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Zoology when it undertakes to rule on the 

 status of these various genera are given. 



R. C. McG. 



Population of the Philippine | Islands in 1916 | (Foblacion de las Islas Filipinas 

 en 1916) | Prepared under the direction of | Preparado bajo la direc- 

 cion de | H. Otley Beyer | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 

 University of | the Philippines, and Curator, Bureau | of Science 

 Museum. | [ornament] | Manila | Philippine Education Co., Inc. | 

 1917 I pp. 1-95. Full blue cloth, ^1.60; paper, 1?=1.10. Extra, if 

 to be sent by mail, ?0.15. 



The book is printed in English and Spanish side by side. The 

 Spanish translation is well rendered, and the text is unusually 

 free from typographical errors. 



In the introduction on page 17 the author states that there 

 are several Tagalog dialects. The example he cites of the dif- 

 ference in the spoken Tagalog of Batangas from that of Bulacan 



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