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I therefore recummciid that A'ltminulilcs and Lcpidocycluia be given vaUdity l)y 

 the International Commission. I feel, however, that exceptions should be made 

 only in extreme cases such as the ones here presented. 

 Signed : L. W. Stephenson. 



" I concur in the above statement." T. W. Stanton. 



'■ Concur." Edwin Kirk, C. \\\the Cooke, W. C. Mansfield, Chas. 



Butts. 



" Agreed, both as to making exceptions only in extreme cases and as 



applied here to Nummnlitcs and LcpidocycUna." George H. Girty. 



I believe that the substitution of Caiiicriiia, almost entirely unused and 



unknown, for Niiiiuiiulifcs, e.xtensively used for over a century, is a useless bit of 



hair-splitting legal procedure. It will lead to more confusion than clarity. Much 



the same is true with respect to Cyclosiphon and LcpidocycUna. I can see no 



profit whatever in going back into the literature of the dim past to dig up names 



that have only the legal show of validity and using them to replace widely used 



and well understood terms [irrelevant personal opinion-C. W. S.]. Let us keep 



Nmnmulitcs and LcpidocycUna. 



Signed: John B. Reeside, Jr., Jan. 25, 1920. 



" I agree with the above statement." P. \'. Roundy, Fel). 5, 1929. 

 " Amen and again Amen." Chas. Butts. 

 In cases in which the confusion arising from the resurrection of an older name 

 is obviously to the disadvantage of the science [relevant testimony-C. W. S.], 

 especially as in the cases under consideration in which no good save the restora- 

 tion of questionably earned rights to Ehrenberg and Bruguiere appear to offset 

 the ill it would do the science, I am opposed to replacing a well known and 

 generally used name by an older one that never attained common usage. There- 

 fore I am in favor of retaining LcpidocycUna and NtnninuUtcs. 

 Signed: E. O. Ulrich, Jan. 20, 1929. 



Letter from Edward Willard I'erry, of tlie Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore, U. S. A. : 



I understand that there is pending before the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature the decision whether to retain the generic use of 

 Numvnditcs and LcpidocycUna. 1 wish to go on record as being in favor of 

 retaining these two genera in the Classification. 



Tlie following are expressions of opinion from .Australian 

 specialists : 



Prof. Walter Howchin, F. G. S. : 



I am heartily in accord with you for the retention of the generic names 

 Nmninulitcs and LcpidocycUna. These names have become so thoroughly in- 

 corporated in the literature of the Foraminifera that their substitution would 

 involve serious inconvenience and confusion, priority notwithstanding. I hope 

 that the exceptions you suggest will be agreed to. 



W.J. Parr, F. R. M. S.: 



I think that the genera Nininnitlitcs Lamarck and LcpidocycUna Giimbel should 

 be retained as )ionun{i con.<!ci-i'anda in place of the earlier Camcrina Bruguiere and 

 Cyclosiphon Ehrenberg. 



