Note 88 — Section A.

According to the letter of the Rules of the British Association, Ellis’s name ought to be retained, as it was published in 1758, the same year during which the 10th edition of the ‘Systema Naturæ’ appeared, in which edition the binomial method was first used. But as Ellis himself did not then know of, or follow this method, it might be disputed whether, according to the spirit of the law, his name ought to stand. The only other name given to this species is that of tulipa, affixed by Poli in 1791, but this name had been previously used by Müller in 1776, and by Chemnitz in 1785, for another species, the B. Hameri of this work; and likewise, also previously to Poli, by Bruguière in 1789, for still another species, viz., B. tintinnabulum of this work: under these complicated causes of confusion, I think it is highly advisable to adopt Ellis’s name. I may add that the B. tulipa of Mr. G. B. Sowerby is the B. tintinnabulum of this work. It is possible that the B. conoides of Brown, ‘Illustrations Conch.’ (1st edit. pl. 6, fig. 7), may be our present species; but without details of structure it is hardly possible to identify, in many cases, the species of Balanus.