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FOR the last twenty years, the “Zoological Record” has contained an appendix of the new generic and subgeneric names, recorded annually in its pages. These lists have been combined, with the addition of such names of earlier date as were omitted from Dr. Scudder's “No-menclator Zoologicus,” published in 1882, and the result is the present volume, which includes the period from 1880 to 1900. The value of such a compilation to working zoologists cannot be overestimated, and the author and editor, as well as those gentlemen by whom they were assisted, by the completion of their laborious task have earned a debt of gratitude beyond the power of thanks to repay. The present volume includes about 40,000 names, of which some 6000 belong to the period before 1800; an idea may therefore be formed of the enormous rate at which new names are growing. Many of these, like those in earlier lists, are, of course, synonyms, but the editor is of opinion that some 80,000 generic and subgeneric names are actually used in zoology. A glance at almost any page in the volume before us will show that much still remains to be done in purging the list on account of the same name being used for two or more groups, but this did not come within the province of the compilers.
Index Zoologitus.
C. O. Waterhouse D. Sharp. Pp. xii + 421. (London: Zoological Society, 1902.)
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L., R. Index Zoologitus . Nature 67, 295 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067295c0
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