300 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ' I2 



The Vote on Priority in Nomenclature. 



The Editorial in the NEWS for March, 1912, page 128, 

 called attention to a vote taken among the zoologists of Den- 

 mark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as to their preferences 

 on the question of the strict application of the law of priority 

 in nomenclature, and stated that the NEWS would be glad to 

 receive and print the votes of American entomologists and 

 zoologists on the same alternatives as were submitted to the 

 Scandinavian voters. 



Some discussion of the question appeared in our issues for 

 April (pages 181-182) and May (pages 226-228) and Pro- 

 fessor J. Chester Bradley sent us the results of a vote taken 

 in the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University. The 

 total number of ballots received was very small, however, so 

 that we sent out postal cards to the working entomologists 

 of North America with a statement of the two Scandinavian 

 alternatives (in order that the vote here might be strictly com- 

 parable with that taken on the other side of the Atlantic) and 

 a request for a vote on them. 



The list of those to whom these cards were sent was com- 

 piled from the lists of American entomological contributors 

 to the journals of the last two years, especially the News, the 

 Transactions of the American Entomological Society, The 

 Canadian Entomologist, the Proceedings of the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of Washington, the Journal of Economic Ento- 

 mology, Psyche, the Journal of the Nciv York Entomological 

 Society, the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 

 the Reports of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and the 

 publications of the Bureau of Entomology, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. About 400 cards were sent out to 

 all of the authors on these lists whose present addresses could 

 be ascertained. As announced in the June number, page 270, 

 we print below the names of those from whom votes have 

 been received. 



To complete the bibliographical references to this ques- 

 tion, the editorial in the May NEWS, page 224, and the discus- 

 sion by a number of writers in those for June, pages 271-276, 

 and July, pages 325-327, may be mentioned. 



