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consonant, as in the above examples; and -us, gen. -iv, when it 
ends with a vowel, as Latreille, Latreillii, &c. 
In converting Greek words into Latin the following rules must 
be attended to :— 
Greek. Latin. Greek. Latin. 
a: becomes 2. 6 becomes th. 
és 1 1. () 7S Soh 
og terminal, us. x sr ee 
ov 9 um, x ” Cc. 
ov becomes u. YX, >. nea, 
Ol 2 oe. VY » ng. 
U 29 y- : ry) h. 
When a name has been erroneously written and its orthography 
has been afterwards amended, we conceive that the authority of 
the original author should still be retained for the name, and not 
that of the person who makes the correction, 
PART ILI. 
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING THE NOMENCLATURE 
IN FUTURE. 
The above propositions are all which, in the present state of the 
science, it appears practicable to invest with the character of laws. 
We have endeavoured to make them as few and simple as pos- 
sible, in the hope that they may be the more easily comprehended 
and adopted by naturalists in general, We are aware that a large 
number of other regulations, some of which are hereafter enume- 
rated, have been proposed and acted upon by various authors who 
have undertaken the difficult task of legislating on this subject ; 
but as the enforcement of such rules would in many cases under- 
mine the invaluable principle of priority, we do not feel justified 
in adopting them. At the same time we fully admit that the 
rules in question are, for the most part, founded on just criticism, 
and therefore, though we do not allow them to operate retrospec- 
tively, we are willing to retain them for future guidance. Although 
it is of the first importance that the principle of priority should 
be held paramount to all others, yet we are not blind to the desir- 
ableness of rendering our scientific language palatable to the 
scholar and the man of taste. Many zoological terms, which are 
now marked with the stamp of perpetual currency, are yet so far 
defective in construction, that our inability to remove them with- 
out infringing the law of priority may be a subject of regret. 
With these terms we cannot interfere, if we adhere to the prin- 
ciples above laid down; nor is there even any remedy, if authors 
