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In the discussion of these questions all personal considerations should 
be toh rejected. The smallest interest or convenience to the science 
ts ses z ; 
_ to distinguish it from some other to which the same name has been 
4 qnaake applied; as, Pleurotoma violacea, Hinds, non Mighels. In 
__ lls view, how ludicrous it appears, to hear, as we often do, naturalists com- 
. Plain that if the custom of placing after a species the name of that author 
an ‘Placed it in its proper genus is adhered to, more than one-half 
{tTinné's species will be wrested from him. the fame of the great 
; Sm Ms the object of a name? Surely, the main object is to enable 
8 'stinguish one thing from another, and from all others, that when 
, tha 
: mo Hal possible) some character of the object, which it may after 
tome, 2 Common with an hundred others? Greek fase om are by 
» ona exhausted yet, and if they were, we might fall 
nee - 
Mist gon ak POS than that it should remotely indicate (which is the 
© eyes of some. The custom of using the same name for many 
centres 18 productive of serious inconveniences. If we have stars, 
minerals, plants, vertebrates, articulates, mollusks and radiates, 
acts ; : 
ity ph Oud great numbers of the Arizona petula (infusorium) living in 
sil, yee 
Pa oracity 
: e poi ‘ : ) 
«yet point. A genus may contain a vast number of species, and 
| fom want of profound svete no one may see the propriety 
