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upon it in 1846 the barbarous generic name Kogia, with the 
following diagnosis : 
“Head moderate, broad, triangular. Lower jaw wide be- 
neath, slender, united by a short symphysis in front. Jaw- 
bone * of the skull broad, triangular, as broad as long." 
In 1854, Mr. W: S. Wall, t ina "History and Description 
of the Skeleton of a New Sperm-whale [ ete. ] ", described in 
addition a new pygmy species, to which he gave the name 
FEuphysetes. Grayi, evidently inclining to the opinion that it 
would prove to be congeneric with Kogia breviceps, but on 
account of the inapplicability of Gray's generic diagnosis, 
refusing to identify it with that form; he "regretted that a 
barbarous and unmeaning name like Kogia should have been 
admitted into the nomenclature of so classical a group as the 
cetacea.” 
The name Kogia has also been repudiated, and Huphysetes 
adopted by Professor Owen, who has acknowledged the 
generic identity of the species on which they were respec- 
tively based ; in reference to it, that profound naturalist has 
remarked that he has "that confidence in the common sense 
and good judgment of [his] fellow countrymen and labourers 
in philosophieal zoology which leads [him] to anticipate a 
tacit burial and oblivion of the barbarous and undefined 
generic names with which the fair edifice begun by Linneus 
has been defaced." t 
Dr. Gray, defending his name, has observed that "Mr. 
MacLeay objects to the barbarous name of Kogia;” and the 
learned doctor of philosophy, with charming naivete, adds : 
"I have been asked, what does EHuphysetes mean? should it 
* Lest this character might be inexplicable, it is proper to state the author meant the 
ortion of the skull. . 
t The work quoted has been lately attributed to Mr. W. S. MacLeay, but as Mr. Wall 
has assumed the responsibility of authorship with the evident t of Mr. MacLeay 
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g accepting ez parte evidence in the case, or even 
for inquiring into the relations of the parties with regard to the contribution of scien- 
tific knowledge and literary skill; in this opinion, I simply concur with Professor 
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1 Owen, Mon. Brit. Foss. Cetacea Red Crag, No. 1, 1870, p. 27; (Ray Society). 
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