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NATURALISTS have long needed a reference book to the names of genera and species. Such a want has already been partially supplied by Agassiz, Bronn, Morris, Marschall, Scudder, Waterhouse, and others—only Bronn and Morris having attempted palæontological species—but no one book including references to all names given to living and fossil animals has yet been attempted. Botanists, more fortunate, will soon possess Daydon Jackson's index to flowering plants. The idea has therefore suggested itself to me to begin at the end of June next, such an “Index Generum et Specierum Animalium,” taking the following rules for guidance:—
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SHERBORN, C. “Index Generum et Specierum Animalium”. Nature 42, 54 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042054c0
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