Contributions to the anatomy of anthropoid apes / by Frank E. Beddard.
- Frank Evers Beddard
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Contributions to the anatomy of anthropoid apes / by Frank E. Beddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Note on the Use of the Name Gemellaria.—The name Gemellaria was first invented for a genus of Bryozoa by J. C. Savigny somewhere about the year 1810; it was not, however, published till 1826 [Audouin, No. i, p. 242J, and then only in the Erench form of Gemellaire ; so far as I am aware, it was first used in a Latinized form in 1830 by Blainville [No. 2, p. 425], who did not himself accept it. Before the publication of Gemellaria or Gemellaire the genus had been described in 1821 by Lamouroux [No. 2, p. 7], who named it Loricaria. Audouin, who completed Savi guy’s work when the latter was disabled by ill-health, of course treated “ Gemellaire ” as a manuscript name and accepted Loricaria. Most subsequent authorities, however, have accepted Gemellaria and date it from 1805, 1809, or 1811. Johnston [No. 2, p. 293, footnote] seems to have entertained doubts as to the accuracy of this proceeding, but accepted it on the idea that copies of some work of Savigny’s had been placed in the principal libraries : he obviously could get no reliable information regarding it. Mr. Hincks accepts the genus and quotes as its author “ Savigny, 1811.’’ The only reference he gives in his Bibliography [No. 2, p. 588] to Savigny is “ Iconographie des Zoophytes de l’Egypte,” from the ‘Description de l’Egypte.’ Miss Jelly [No. 1, p. 284] quotes the same work, and so does Macgillivray [No. 3, p. 223], who, however, adds “ not seen by me.” I regret to have been unable to find any such work; there is none such in the Natural History Museum copy of the ‘ Description de l’Egypte,’ nor is any referred to in “ A Bibliographical Account and Collation of ‘ La Description de l’Egypte ’ ” (London Institution : private circulation, 1838, 8vo, 76 pp.). None of tho ordinary bibliographical works of reference give any information regarding it, I therefore cannot help concluding that the authorities who have quoted this mysterious “ Iconographie ” really refer to Audouin’s “ Explication sommaire des planches de Zoophytes de l’Egypte ” That the date of this is 1S26 and not 1811 admits of no doubt: the work was only entrusted to Audouin for completion in 1825, and monographs issued in 1S21 are quoted. Loricaria has therefore the prior claim to adoption, but unfortunately it had been previously used among fishes. Eleming [No. 1, p. 541], therefore, in 1828 renamed it Notamia. N. loricata he clearly regarded as the type, for the only other species he associated with it (A. bursaria) he made the type of a new genus, Episiornia. Lamouroux did not include this latter species in his Loricaria, but in the Sertularian Dynanema [No. 1, p. 79]. Fleming, it must be remembered, only proposed Notamia as a change of name owing to the preoccupation of Loricaria. The name Notamia, cannot therefore be separated from its type species and applied to one which both Lamouroux and Eleming assigned to another genus. There is therefore no option but to follow Eleming and substitute Notamia for Gemellaria and regard the species bursaria as the type of Episiornia. The only alternative is to accept Blainville’s name Gemicellaria [No. 1, p. 425], proposed in 1830, but there does not seem any sufficient reason for a departure from the ordinary rule of nomenclature. Suborder ATHYEIATA. Family MEMBRANXPORIDiE. Subfamily Membeanipoeinj. Genus Membranipora, Blainville, 1834. [Blainville, No. 2, p. 447.] Diagnosis.1 Membraniporidse in which the opesial aperture is generally of a simple form and the lamina is absent or but slightly developed. 1 It will be seen from this diagnosis that in deference to recognized opinion Amphiblestrum is accepted ; it appears to be an artificial but very convenient group. vol. xiii.—part vi. No. 2.—June, 1893. 2 l](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28141386_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
