30 Occasional Xotcs. 



as the 13. 0. U. List — he has prepared a tahle which shows 

 that of 376 names therein included, no fewer than 200 would 

 require alteration ! This he considers is " so great a defect 

 in the projected change that the alterations could not be 

 effected." 



In this opinion we quite agree. 



It is a significant fact that in res[)onse to a circular issued 

 by the German Zoological Society, no fewer than 635 

 zoologists voted against the application of the rule of strict 

 priority as propounded by the International Zoological Con- 

 gress, and a similar opinion has been expressed in a vote of 

 the Scandinavian naturalists and a vote given by the com- 

 mittee of the British Association. 



Tliose of our readers who may be in doubt whether to 

 accept or reject the list now under consideration will do well 

 to await the appearance of a new edition of the B. 0. U. List, 

 which, we understand, is in active preparation. The simplest 

 way out of the difficulty, as it seems to us, is to ignore the 

 new list. — From 'The Field ^ of March SiJi, 1913. 



3. The following appeared in the ' Pretoria News," shortly 

 after the appointment on 1st January, 1914, which might 

 interest readers of this Journal : — 



The Zoo. The New Director. — The appointment has 

 been confirmed of Mr. Alwin K. Haagner as Director of the 

 Zoological Gardens, a position for which he is eminently fit- 

 ted. Born in tlie Eastern Province, he took to zoology as a 

 hobby at the age of 16. His first scientific paper was 

 published when he was only twenty, and since then he has 

 contributed very many articles to such magazines as * The 

 Ibis^ and 'The Zoologist.^ He also wrote the letterpress 

 of ' Sketches of South African Bird Life,' which met with 

 success, and a second edition of wdiich is now in the press. 

 In March 1909 lie received a diploma from the Hungarian 

 Department of Agriculture for ornithological work, and is an 

 Honorary Member of the British Ornithological Union and a 

 fellow of the Zoological Society of London. In March 190-1 



