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properly cared for, both by the collector and the Curator. 
Among the ends which the Curator of the Dept of Ethnology is very anxious to accomplish and for which he begs the cooperation of his scientific brethren, no one seems to be more important than a correct nomenclature of the different classes of objects with which he has to deal. On the one hand an utter disregard of nomenclature is so vicious that no argument need be urged against it. On the other hand there is a danger of overloading the subject with too many difficult names tending rather to confusion than to perspicuity. The following rules found to be of the greatest service to anthropo-biologists, will certainly meet with favor from all comparative technologists.
[[underlined]] First. [[/underlined]] Every class or species of objects and every distinct part of each object should have a name. 
[[underlined]] Second. [[/underlined]] Each class or part should have but one distinctive name, although synonyms well understood may be allowed.
[[underlined]] Third. [[/underlined]] Distinctive names should apply to only one class of objects or parts.