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action in respect to the vacancies be confirmed by the Congress by the adop- 

 tion of the following resolution : 



9) Resolved, That the informal action taken by the International 

 Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in regard to filling vacancies be 

 approved and ratified by this Ninth Congress and be made formal. 



10) In order to provide for similar contingencies in the future, the 

 Commission recommends to the Congress the adoption of the following re- 

 solution : 



11) Resolved, That in case of vacancies in the Commission on Zoo- 

 logical Nomenclature by death or resignation during the interim betwjeeu 

 Congresses, said Commission is emjoowered to fill said vacancies temporarily, 

 with the understanding that the appointes shall hold office until the vacan- 

 cies in question are filled by the next succeeding Congress. 



12) Expiration of term of service. — The term of service expires 

 at the close of this (1913, Monaco) Congress for the following five membei'S 

 of the class of 1913: 



J. A. Allen, of New York; Ph. Dautzenberg, of Paris; Hubert 

 Ludwig, of Bonn; F. C. von Maehrenthal, deceased, of Berlin, succeeded 

 temporarily by K. Apstein, of Berlin; W. E. Hoyle, of Cardiff. 



13) Nominations. — In accordance with custom obtaining since the 

 Cambridge (1898) Congress, the Commission, after careful consideration as 

 to details of the work, of countries, languages, specialities, etc., herewith 

 has the honor to submit nominations to fill the seven vacancies that will 

 exist upon adjournment of the present Congress. These nominations are: 



Class of 1919: Professor C. Apstein, of Berlin, Germany, (Professor 

 von Maehrenthal's successor in the office of Das Tierreich) vice Prof. 

 Louis Dolio, of Brussels, resigned. 



Professor Roule (of the Paris Museum) vice Gr. A. B oui eng er, 

 resigned. 



Class of 1922: Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, N. Y., vice J. A. Allen, term expired. 



Ph. Dautzenberg, of Paris, vice Ph. Dautzenberg, term expired. 



Prof. H. J. Ko lb e , of the Berlin Museum, vice Prof. Hubert Lud- 

 wig, of Bonn, tei'm expired. 



Dr. Wm. Evans Hoyle, Director of the National Museum of "Wales, 

 at Cardiff, vice W. E. Hoyle, term expii-ed. 



Dr. Karl Jordan, Secretary of the International Committee on Ento- 

 mological Nomenclature, vice F, C. von Maehrenthal, deceased and term 

 expired. 



14) Proposition to enlarge the Commission. — This Commission 

 originally consisted of five members, elected at the Leyden Congress in 1895. 

 Upon recommendation of the original Commission, the Cambridge (1898) 

 Congress increased the number of commissioners to fifteen. The present 

 Commission is of the opinion that it is now in the interest of the subject 

 to increase the membership from 15 to 18 with the understanding that the 

 three new commissioners shall be so arranged that one joins the Class of 

 1916, one that of 1919, and one that of 1922. The Commission is led to 

 this recommendation by several reasons, notably by the three following: 

 1) there exists at present an excellent opportunity to cooperate in work on 

 the nomenclature of Entomology and the situation is such that the Com- 



