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MAY I direct the attention of your readers to an exhaustive article, dealing specially with “species” among the reef-corals, by Prof. Döderlein in the current number of the Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie? It is somewhat hard to find myself there blamed for continuing to use the word “species” in relation to a group in which it is totally inapplicable, for I laid the whole subject before the Linnean Society a year ago. I stated the difficulty and suggested a provisional alternative method of designating specimens. I carefully explained that I was proposing a method of work in order that we might discover the true species by gradual arrangement of the variations. In the autumn of the same year I made a brief statement at the International Congress of Zoologists in Berlin, but the report has not yet appeared; and again, later in the year, I read a paper before the Cambridge Philosophical Society. This has appeared in the last number of the Proceedings of that Society under the title “On the Unit of Classification for Systematic Biology.”
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BERNARD, H. The Species Problem in Corals. Nature 65, 560 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065560a0
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