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Zool. A)i.::., V. 44, pp. 630-632, July 28, 1914. Accordingly, the 

 conditions required respecting" public notification of the zoologi- 

 cal profession have been complied with. Further, the names were 

 sent out by the Secretary in Circular Letter No. 3, April 1915. 

 to about 350 zoologists and zoological institutions. Up to August 14. 

 1915, 66 replies were received to Circular Letter No. 3. The views 

 expressed were tabulated and submitted to the Secretary of the 

 Advisory Committee on Nomenclature of Mammals (Aug. 14, 1915, 

 Circular Letter No. 12). This Advisory Committee appeared to be 

 so divided in its views as to the advisability of suspension of rules 

 that the entire matter was submitted to the Commission by the Secre- 

 tary of the International Commission (September, 1916, Circular 

 Letter No. 31) with recommendation that the case be tabled, without 

 prejudice, until March i, 191 7, in order to give interested persons 

 an opportunity to complete the evidence. Of eight votes returned in 

 reply to this recommendation, six were afiirmative and two were in 

 favor of accepting the names. 



New briefs were submitted by Mr. Oldfield Thomas in the name 

 of the signers of the original ])apers asking suspension. The Advisory 

 Committee on Mammalian Nomenclature was so hopelessly divided 

 in regard to these cases that it was useless to submit to said Commit- 

 tee these new presentations by Oldfield Thomas. Accordingly these 

 new briefs with all the earlier documents were forwarded by the 

 Secretary to Commissioner Allen (since, deceased) for ^tudy and 

 re]:)ort. 



The documents in respect to these cases are voluminous and in 

 view of present cost of printing the Secretary does not feel justified 

 in requesting the Smithsonian Institution to publish them. 



The correspondence on the cases conducted by the Secretary with 

 the Commissioners, with the appellants and others, covers a period 

 of II years and no good purpose would be served by abstracting it 

 for publication. 



Discussion. — Commissioner Allen studied the cases and his rcixirt 

 was submitted to the Commission. Summaries of the names are tabu- 

 lated as follows : 



(jroup A. Suspension Recommended Favorably l)y Commissioner 

 Allen: (i) Cercopithccus, (2) Cacclla. (3) FN f^f^ of rag its. (4) Lagid- 

 ium, (5) Nycteris. 



(i) Cercopithccus. Application of Name Advocated by A])])ellaiits. To the 

 Guenon Monkeys, from Briinnich, Zoologiae Fundamenta, p. ,^4, 1772, with 

 C. mona {Simia nioiia Schreb.) as genotype. 



Asserted Code Application — To the Tamarin Marmosets, from Gronow, 

 Zoophylacium, p. 5, 1763, with Simia midas Linn, as genotype. [See Opinion 89.] 



