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Congress has indicated a System and rules which may lead to 

 finality. Ail entomologists are agreed that the time is ripe for 

 action. The difficulty hitherto has been the adoption of methods 

 calculated to bring about the desired end. Those who heard 

 M. Charles Oberthiir's éloquent appeal : " Pus de bonne figure à 

 Vappid (Tune description, pas de nom valable ", cannot fail to 

 hâve been struck at once by the sincerity of the speaker and the 

 splendour of his ideas. But British entomologists cannot accept 

 the proposition, even when M. Oberthiir is prepared to concède a 

 photograph instead of a coloured figure, and though, in parlia- 

 mentary phrase, the motion was not pressed to a division, the 

 feeling of the Congress was obviously in favour of " words " as 

 opposed to " pictures ", and the arguments brought forward in 

 Mr. L. B. Prout's paper " On the Place of Figures in Descriptive 

 Entomology ", In the end, therefore, the résolutions sent up by 

 the Entomological Society of London were adopted in principle, 

 and it was decided to institute an International Committee to deal 

 with the subject of entomological nomenclature. The Congress 

 also advised the formation of national committees in each country, 

 to be elected by the various entomological societies, to collect 

 opinions and consider changes required in the International Code; 

 and further commissioned the International Committee to com- 

 municate their resolutions to the International Committee on 

 Zoological Nomenclature ". 



Je crois être agréable à mes Lecteurs français en donnant la 

 traduction de l'article de M. H. Rowland-Brown, comme suit : 



« NOMENCLATURE 



Au milieu de la confusion et de la divergence d'opinions qui 

 existent actuellement sur la question de la Nomenclature, il est 

 agréable de constater que le Congrès a indiqué un système et des 

 règles qui peuvent conduire à la conclusion. Tous les entomo- 



