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scurity of erroneous synomyms? What can be more encouraging — 
to one of that class of persons than the certainty that if he names 
and describes a species, no matter how poorly, or in what false 
relations, or under what wrong genus, his name must nevertheless 
always remain attached to it? ‘The effect of the “ American” cus 
tom is certainly to induce naturalists to attach more importance to 
the study of the structure and true relations of species, and less to 
mere descriptions of new species. And in this country, where any 
naturalist can easily obtain at least 50 new species in an excursion 
of a single day, this is of much consequence for the future progress 
of the science. | 
16. New Zoélogical Periodicals.*—No less than three zodlogical — 
periodicals have lately made their appearance, and judging 
S ic 
adds a purely zodlogical archive to its list, edited by Professor a 
Selenka. The first number contains a tolerably complete embry: 
ology of one of the naked Gasteropods by Selenka, and a long paper 
by C. K. man on the anatomy of Echinoderms; aa 
re excellently illustrated. Professor Selen 
issue his Niederlandische Archiv fiir Zodlogie whenever 
material is at hand ; he solicits articles either in German, 
or English. : 
17. Hast India Crustaceans. On Indian and Malayan i 
the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The 
* Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. Sous la Direc 
caze iers. Paris—Niederlindische Archiv fiir Zoologie a pa 
Em. Selenka. Haarlem—Leipzig.—Journal de Zoologie par Paul Gervais 
