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same date, but authors desiring especially prompt publication 

 may secure it by paying the cost of mailing. 



Section 7 . No description of a new species shall be published 

 unless a type be designated and its present location and place of 

 collection given, if this is known, and no description of a new 

 genus unless the type species be definitely stated. 



Section 8. The whole of the manuscript and all plates for 

 figures shall be in the hands of the Committee on Publications 

 before any paper is accepted for publication. 



Section 9. Proofs of letter-press and illustrations shall be 

 submitted to authors, or persons designated by them, whenever 

 practicable, but printing shall not be unduly delayed by reason 

 of absence or incapacity of authors. 



Section 10. All details relating to abbreviations, the use of 

 capitals and citations, and all matters of form not involving a 

 change of meaning, shall rest with the Committee on Publi- 

 cations. 



Section 11. The text of each brochure of the Proceedings of 

 the Biological Society of Washington shall liegin under its pro- 

 per title on an odd-numbered page. It shall be accompanied 

 by the illustrations pertaining to it, the plates consecutively 

 numbered for the volume, and it may contain a synoptic list of 

 contents, prepared by the author, and, at the option of the 

 Committee on Publication, an alphabetic index, provided the 

 same be prepared by the author. 



Section 12. The author of each memoir shall receive twenty- 

 five copies gratis and shall be authorized to order, through the 

 Committee on Publications, any edition of exactly similar 

 brochures, to be printed as author's separates, at cost of paper* 

 and press-work; but no author's separates of memoir brochures 

 shall l)e issued except in this regular form. 



Section 13. If special paper covers are desired for the author's 

 edition of a brochure, they shall bear at the top of the first page 

 the title of the volume, limiting pages and date of publication, 

 and at the bottom the imprint of the Society. 



Section 14. The bottom of each signature and of each initial 

 page shall bear a signature mark, giving an abbreviated title of 

 the serial, the volume, and the year, and every page shall be 

 numbered, the initial pages at the bottom. 



