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be connected with the attachment of a man’s name to a species, 1s 
of little or no account; but if it were of more importance, justice 
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who have, like Linné, Lamarck, Fabricicus, and many others, 
described vast numbers of species under useless or artificial general 
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and understand, are not deserving of m 
later systematists, who by a prolonged and careful study of the 
anatomy have shown their true structure, and have thus arranged | 
them in natural groups, and so brought them properly into the 
“domain of science.” 
3d. As to the matter of convenience, or saving of time, it seem 
for the same specific name may occur many times. Thus, if any 
one not | egrneomd familiar with conchological literature undertakes 
or instance, the Genera of Recent Mollusca, by H. & A. 
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has met with similar inconvenience and loss of time in using this 
work, Th 
“Check Lists of Shells,” constructed on the same plan, find the 
© do poor or hasty work for the sake of perpetuating their names 
48 “authorities.” we have found that the actual result 1s just ais 
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upon such a pore than the certainty that, if he makes a 
mistake in hastily describing a species, before h 
its true stracture. sen pelacsone is name will drop into the ob- 
