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UNDER the above heading, I wrote to NATURE of November 16, 1935, expressing consternation at the ever-increasing hypertrophy in the nomenclature of the Foraminifera. I have continued to correspond with my friend Dr. H. E. Thalmann, and it may interest readers of NATURE to note that, in the last six years, more than two thousand papers have been published upon these Protozoa. These papers give us sixty new families and sub-families, two hundred new genera and sub-genera, and two thousand four hundred new species and varieties. This gives us two to three new genera per month, and two new species per day.
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Dementia Nomenclatorica Americana. Nature 141, 558 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141558a0
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