106) 8. A. Miller—Glyptocrinus and Reteocrinus. 
substitute as its type a species unknown to the original author 
of the generic name, or not included by him, among his types 
of the genus, or not, itself, originally made or intended to be 
made the t 
I deny that the subsequent author has any such _ privilege, 
under the laws and rules of science, and affirm that no matter 
how learned the naturalist, how eminent the scientist, or inhe- 
rently able and accurate the diagnosis may be, such work is an 
absolute nullity. 
The issue is then, as before remarked, one of law, and the 
importance of determining it is not co onfined, in its scope, to the 
genera under consideration, nor to paleontology, but extends 
ban le Natural History. If I am right and shoul 
e to convince Messrs. Wachsmuth and Springer, that such is 
the: case, there is no doubt, they would, notwithstanding pre- 
vious opinions, follow the law, because they are not only learned 
paleontologists but devotees of science. 
I will quote from the rules for rendering the nomenclature of 
Zoology uniform and permanent adopted at the 12th meeting of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 
1842. 
and is, therefore, devoid of all authority. If those persons were 
to object. to such names of men as ong, Little, Armstrong 
