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III. ZOOLOGY. 
1. On Botanical and Zoological Nomenclature ; by Wm. Stimpson.— 
A more careful attention to the subject of nomenclature is urgently 
demanded of the followers of all branches of Natural History. It is 
a subject to which too little attention has been paid in an abstract or 
eral sense, and too much perhaps in particular cases. compre- 
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ny additions, as any one may observe who at- 
| to decide by them all questions which occur in his experience. 
h, will arrive at what appears to him to be a certain and final con- 
‘~Mtsion that the true Orthonymus aliquis is such and such a species. 
_ *he hext writer who succeeds him in the same field will triumphantly 
_ Move in ten pages that it is not that species at all, but the O. neminis, 
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Sad it may appear at the first glance that the application of the law 
‘ Wigan 1s exceedingly simple. The name given by the first describer 
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4 ‘he 1 another to include two or three distinct forms, and so on. Some 
Rul smitations of the law of priority have been laid down in the 
*pplying the great law, the most difficult question of all immedi- 
; by atises,——What constitates a description? or, When has an author 
ject ated his species that his name for it should hold? On this sub- 
are every variety of opinion, from that of the German ornithol- 
: Who consider that a simple published name, referring to a specimen 
- ae Vor. XXIX, No. 86.—MARCH, 1860. 
