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burg), G. Neumann (Dresden), C. Ph. Sluiter (Amsterdam), F. Todaro 

 (Rome). 



Discussion. — According to the premises submitted, these cases 

 call for an exercise of the Plenary Power granted to the Commission 

 by the Monaco Congress to suspend the Rules of Nomenclature 

 under certain conditions. As this is the first instance of this kind 

 that comes to vote, attention is invited to the wording of the resolu- 

 tions ^ upon which said power is based. 



In accordance with the provisions of §113^ notice that the names 

 in question had been submitted for action under the Plenary Power, 

 by suspension of the Rules, was duly published.^ 



^ See Proceedings Ninth International Congress on Zoology, Monaco (1913), 

 1914, pp. 890-891 : 



(§113) Resolved, That plenary power is herewith conferred upon the Inter- 

 national Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, acting for this Congress, to 

 suspend the Regies as applied to any given case, where in its judgment the 

 strict application of the Regies will clearly result in greater confusion than 

 uniformity, provided, however, that not less than one year's notice shall be 

 given in any two or more of the following publications, namely, Bulletin de 

 la Societe Zoologique de France, Monitore Zoologico, Nature, Science (N. Y.), 

 and Zoologischer Anzeiger, that the question of a possible suspension of the 

 Regies as applied to such case is under consideration, thereby making it 

 possible for zoologists, particularly for specialists in the group in question, to 

 present arguments for or against the suspension under consideration; and 

 provided, also, that the vote in Commission is unanimously in favor of sus- 

 pension ; and provided further, that if the vote in Commission is a two-thirds 

 majority of the full Commission, but not a unanimous vote in favor of sus- 

 pension, the Commission is hereby instructed to report the facts to the next 

 succeeding International Congress ; and 



(§114) Resolved, That in the event that a case reaches the Congress, as 

 hereinbefore described, with two-thirds majority of the Commission in favor 

 of suspension, but without unanimous report, it shall be the duty of the Presi- 

 dent of the section on Nomenclature to select a special board of 3 members, 

 consisting of one member of the Commission who vo'cd on each side of the 

 question and one ex-member of the Commission who has not expressed any 

 public opinion on the case; and this special board shall review the evidence 

 presented to it, and its report, either majority or unanimous, shall he final and 

 without appeal, so far as the Congress is concerned ; and 



(§115) Resolved, That the foregoing authority refers in the first instance 

 and especially to cases of the names of larval stages and the transference of 

 names from one genus or species to another. 



^ See Science (N. Y.), v. 39, pp. 619-620, April 24, 1914; Bulletin de la 

 Societe Zoologique de France, v. 39, pp. 142-144, May 12, 1914; Monitore 

 Zoologico Italiano, Anno 25, pp, 74-76; Zoologischer Anzeiger, v. 44, pp. 238- 

 240, May 12, 1914. 



