Excerpt from Science-Gossip, Vol. 4: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Nature and Country-Lore and Applied Science The wish of all naturalists must be to see the various open questions of nomenclature finally settled, for both present and future satisfaction and future advancement, and it is to be hoped that this will soon be done through the agency of an International Congress of interested men of science. Shiftiness of nomenclature is one of the greatest stumbling-blocks in the way of the study of species and the encouragement of students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.