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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1912. 



At its recent meeting in Washington, the Entomological 

 Society of America voted down a proposition to the effect 

 that a recommendation be made to the Second International 

 Congress of Entomology that a list of nomina conscrvanda 

 of insects be prepared without strict reference to the rule 

 of priority. 



Those who regretted this action will be consoled to some 

 extent by an article (in English) in the Zoologischer Anseiger 

 for January 3, 1912, entitled, "A Vote against the strict 

 application of the Priority-Rule," by Dr. Th. Mortensen, of 

 the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. This vote was taken 

 among the professional Zoologists of Denmark, Finland, 

 Norway and Sweden, not including anatomists, palaeontol- 

 ogists or amateur zoologists, with the result that two Scan- 

 dinavian Zoologists, Dr. Sig Thor, of Skien, Norway, and 

 Dr. E. Wahlgren, of Malmo, Sweden, "are of opinion that 

 the law of priority should be strictly applied in all cases." 

 One hundred and twenty (120) "undersigned Scandinavian 

 and Finnish Zoologists protest against the strict application 

 of the laiv of priority in all cases and express the desire that 

 the most important and generally used names should be pro- 

 tected against any change on nomenclatorial grounds." [The 

 italics are our own.] 



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