Agassiz (1846) and Herrmannsen (1846-1852), among others, very often
tried to improve the Latin of previous authors by emending their taxon
names, not legal by today's rules.  Checking out the original spelling
is important.

If you haven't found it yet, quite a lot of older literature (and some
more current) is now available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

The search tools are not perfect (for some reason, names in indexes
are found more often than in text, and there seems to be no way to
narrow a search to focus on, e.g., an obscure homonym swamped by
hundreds or thousands of mentions of a better-known name).

--
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"

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