336 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal : 



Surgeon General Rupert Blue, U. S. Public Health Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Professor Henry Edward Crampton, Barnard College, Columbia 

 University, New York City. 



Dr. Heinrich Hasselbring, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. George Grant Hedgcock, Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. George Samuel Jamieson, Bureau of. Chemistry, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Professor Arthur Becket Lamb, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 

 and American University Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Mr. S. J. Mauchly, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. 



The Executive Committee of the Entomological Society of Washing- 

 ton has recently adopted the following rules and suggestions governing 

 articles published in the Proceedings of the Society: 



Rules 



Rule 1. No description of a new genus, or subgenus, will be pub- 

 lished unless there is cited as a genotype a species which is established 

 in accordance with current practice of zoological nomenclature. 



Rule 2. In all cases a new genus, or subgenus, must be character- 

 ized and if it is based on an undescribed species the two must be char- 

 acterized separately. 



Rule 3. No description of a species, subspecies, variety, or form will 

 be published unless it is accompanied by a statement which includes 

 the following information, where known: (1) the type locaHty; (2) of 

 what the type material consists— with statement of sex, full data on lo- 

 calities, dates, collectors, etc. ; (3) present location of type material . 



Rule 4. No unsigned articles, or articles signed by pseudonyms or 

 initials will be published. 



Rule 5. The ordinal position of the group treated in any paper must 

 be clearly given in the title or in parentheses following the title. 



Suggestions 



1. All illustrations, accompanying an article, should be mentioned 

 in the text and preferably in places where the object illustrated is 

 discussed. 



It is desirable in describing new genera and species that their taxo- 

 nomic relationship be discussed, and that distinguishing characters be 

 pointed out. 



