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IN answer to Dr. Lucas's letter (NATURE, Aug. 29, p. 315) it may be said that although scientific names need not be literature, and therefore need not follow any philological rules, yet where they pretend to be derived from Greek, or Latin, or any other particular language, good taste demands that they should conform to the structural system of that language.
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ALLEN, F. The Word “Australopithecus” and Others. Nature 116, 397 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116397c0
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