ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1912. 



Up to the date of reading the second proofs of the present 

 number of the NEWS (May 22), 84 North American entomol- 

 ogists have sent in their ballots that the law of priority in no- 

 menclature should be strictly applied in all cases. On the other 

 hand 173 North American Entomologists have informed us 

 that they vote against the strict application of the law of pri- 

 ority in all cases and express the desire that the most important 

 and generally used names should be protected against any 

 change on nomenclatural grounds.* 



In our July number we propose to print the names of those 

 in favor of each one of these alternatives. In the meantime 

 we hope to receive votes from others who have not yet re- 

 sponded to our invitations to take part in this "preferential bal- 

 lot." Some additional contributions to the discussion of the 

 nomenclature question will be found under the caption "Notes 

 and News," on another page. 



As the Editor expects to be away from Philadelphia during 

 the summer, part of the time in attendance on the International 

 Congress of Entomology at Oxford (where he hopes to see 

 many of his American colleagues), all communications re- 

 specting the NEWS should be addressed to the Associate Edi- 

 tor, at the Academy of Natural Sciences, from June 15 to 

 October I, 1912. 



*The Zoologischcr Anzcificr for April 10, 1912, page 365, announces 

 the result of the votes of the German Zoologists (see the NEWS for 

 May, p. 227) as u for, and 115 against, strict priority. 



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