May 1890
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Nature, Volume 42, Issue 1071, pp. 28 (1890).
Physics
Scientific paper
IN his excellent article on the extermination of the American bison, ``R. L.'' remarks (NATURE, p. 11) on the transatlantic practice of miscalling that animal a ``buffalo'' but on the next page he writes of ``its European congener the Lithuanian aurochs.'' This is to perpetuate a common error at least as bad. The ``aurochs'' (= ox of yore), Latinized by Cæsar in the form urus, is or was the Bos primigenius or B. urus of scientific nomenclature. It is wholly by mistake that in its extinction as a wild animal its ancient name was transferred to the bison, or Zubr. I would invite ``R. L.'' to turn to the word ``Bison'' in Dr. Murray's ``New English Dictionary,'' where he will find a reference to an article ``Wisunt'' in Schade's ``Altdeutsches Wörterbuch,'' which ought to settle the question. I only wish one could ascertain to what animal the name ``buffalo'' strictly belongs. There unfortunately Dr. Murray does not help us.
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