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MANY years ago, Dr. Eigenmann, of the University of Indiana, finding certain small fresh-water fishes of South America very perplexing, decided to turn them over to one of his most capable students, Miss Marion Durbin. In due course of time Miss Durbin published a new genus and twelve new species of Tetragonopterid Characins, small fishes of a type which has since become very popular in parlour aquaria. Miss Durbin married Dr. Max Ellis, and papers on South American fishes, with new species, were afterwards written by each. As the species are usually cited, they are credited to Ellis, and the reader may or may not know that if they belong to a certain family they are of Max Ellis, if of another they were described by the former Miss Durbin. The first initial being the same in both cases, it is necessary to cite two initials to indicate which is which. In 1921 some new South American birds were published by G. K. Cherrie and Mrs. E. M. B. Reichenberger. There has just appeared an admirable revision of the birds of Matto Grosso, by Mrs. Naumburg. But Mrs. Naumburg is identical with the former Mrs. Reichenberger.
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COCKERELL, T. The Designation of Women Biologists. Nature 126, 957 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126957b0
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