112 The American Natu 



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eighteen misspellings out of a total number of 76S specific 

 and subspecific names, and the generic and other names 

 accompanying. These are of course not due to ignorance on 

 the part of the members of this body, some of whom are 

 distinguished for scholarship, but because of an extreme view 

 of the law of priority. 



In closing I wish to utter a plea for euphony and brevity in 

 the construction of names. In some quarters the making of 

 such names is an unknown art. The simple and appropriate 

 names of Linneus and Cuvier can be still duplicated if stu- 

 dents would look into the matter. A great number of such 

 names can be devised by the use of significant Greek prefixes 

 attached to substantiates which may or may not have been 

 often used. Personal names in Greek have much significance, 

 and they are generally short and euphonious. The unap- 

 propriated wealth in this direction is so great that there is 

 really no necessity for poverty in this direction. It should be 

 rarely necessary, for instance, to construct generic names by 

 adding prefixes and suffixes of no meaning to a standard gen- 

 eric name - already in use. 



SOME LOCALITIES FOR LARAMIE MAMMALS AND 

 HORNED DINOSAURS. 



By J. B. Hatcher. 



It is the purpose of tlii.s |»aper tu giv*> brief hut accurate de- 

 scriptions of the localities for the most important and best 

 preserved specimens of Laramie mammals and horned and 

 other dinosaurs collected by the writer for the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, and now carefully stored in the Yale Museum at New 

 Haven ; with a map of the most important locality at present 

 known and suggestions to collectors visiting this, or other local- 

 ities as to the most promising places and best methods to be 

 employed in order to attain the greatest degree of success. 



