430 Scientific Intelligence. 
claim priority for these, with the exception of H. and A, Adams, who 
e sometimes the first word of the binomial phrase for the generic 
name to be established! To this objection it is answered that wherever 
Klein’s names are (accidentally) uninomial, they must be adopted. But 
if this method of settling the question be allowed, we shall have all 
writers who are affected with the prevailing rage for change, seare 
through every forgotten and almost extinet work at all relating to 
natural history, which has appeared since the invention of printing 
seizing upon every case in which an author happened to designate & 
group of animals by a single name, and adding this to our already over- 
burdened synonymy, to the suppression of the name last in vogue. nd 
further, when we have got to the date of the invention of printing, 
there will be some who will insist that the distribution of a certain 
number of copies of a manuscript constitutes publication, a and 
back to the still older names given by writers who flourished during 
.and before the Middle Ages! Naturalists, averse to the more severe 
studies in the realm of nature herself, will parent archeologists, and 
cheaply earn reputation by seeking for prior names to replace those 
which have become well known. 
We have thus dwelt upon Klein’s case because it is one of impor 
tance, not only as a type of many, but on account of the great number 
with as much reason as the first = has been, 
But to drop the question of simple nomenclature, we may, in concli- 
h we 
a Numbers of species formerly huddled together in old ge 
ace in the 
very appropriate. We are now enabled catistactorily to el 
our Miocene fauna with that of Europe, and with that of i 
epoch on our own coast. *D. a 
vith —s y of Vermont——Announcement has been issued pe 4D. y 
Hager o af Teoadeneilie, Vt., that the Geological Report of ny TH : 
quarto will hereafter be disposed of by him at six dollars a copy: *™™ 
edition is nearly exhausted. ek 
VI. BOTANY AND gies 
un Nouveav oor, : 
outes shieres dans le Fruit des Chénes et sur ee meilleure eer : 
assiduously engaged in 
Prodro romus, and has had ise him the.authentie types 
ished species, and an amount of materials as to many of oe 
dried specimens may serve, leaves little to be rn al 
er a pur anical interest, and, sir 
Science, need 
