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The following resolution in reference to the above was also recom- 

 mended by the Standing Committee of the American Association, and 

 adopted : — 



" Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement of 

 " Science hereby endorses the accompanying memorial, and invites the 

 " Entomological Societies to call yearly meetings of their members, in 

 " accordance with the request therein contained." 



Mr. Riley, from the Committee appointed a year ago on Nomen- 

 clature, requested that in view of the absence of some of its members, the 

 Committee be dismissed. On motion a new Committee was appointed, 

 consisting of Messrs. Edwards, Scudder, Riley, Bethune, and LeConte, to 

 report at the next annual meeting of the American Association, a code of 

 rules, to be discussed and adopted at said meeting, regarding a uniform 

 nomenclature for the guidance of American Entomologists. 



Several Entomological papers were read before Section B. of the 

 American Association ; one being by Mr. Grote, entitled " Remarks on 

 the Origin of Insects, and on the Antennal Characters in the Butterflies 

 and Moths ; " another by Dr. J. L. LeConte, " Hints for the Promotion 

 of Economic Entomology in the United States ; " a third by P. R. Uhler 

 " On a Remarkable Group of Wasps' Nests Found in a Hollow Stump in 

 Maryland; " a fourth by Cyrus Thomas, " On the Identity of the Locust 

 of the Prophet Joel with the Ccdipoda migratoria of Europe," and a fifth 

 by W. L. Coffinberry, "On Spiders." 



The meeting was a very pleasant one to the Entomologists, and 

 enabled them not only to freely exchange opinions respecting subjects of 

 wide spread interest, but also to get a glance at the interesting Fauna of 

 the regions which they visited. 



THE LAW OF PRIORITY IN NOMENCLATURE. 



BY H. K. MORRISON, OLD CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



In a recent article in the Entomologist it is proposed to obviate the 

 confusion in which our nomenclature is involved, by accepting the names 

 most generally in use and allowing the law of priority (if it does not 

 make too much trouble !) to determine all questions which may hereafter 

 come up ; ignoring entirely the claims of older authors and of writers 

 holding different opinions from the proposers of the scheme. This 



