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dature of any group to drop any given name or names from the Transi- 

 tional List, joint report to this effect is to be made to the International 

 Congress and the name or names in question are then to be removed from 

 the Transitional List. 



101) Resolved, That this action is not to be interpreted as in any 

 ■way restricting the application of the Law of Priority or of any other pro- 

 vision in the Rules of Nomenclature. 



102! Incidentally it may be stated that the Commission has for some 

 time had under informal discussion the advisability of a resolution by the 

 Congress placing in the hands of the Commission the plenary power of 

 suppressing entirely, in some way, certain names which it is claimed are at 

 present applied in an erroneous sense and which when transferred to the 

 correct genus or sjjecies under the Law of Priority are calculated to produce 

 unusual confusion. As yet the views of the Commission are not formulated 

 in a sufficiently safeguarded manner to make it advisable to report definitely 

 on the subject at the present Congress. (See below, Supplementary Report.) 



103) Although the resolution as rejjorted places in the hands of the 

 proposed Committee on Transitional List unrestricted power as to the selec- 

 tion of the names, this point does not raise any misgivings in the mind of 

 the Commission. Furthermore, the resolution gives to the Committee in 

 question unrestricted privilege of inviting cooperation and it safeguards 

 the list by requiring a two thirds majority in order to eliminate names from 

 the list. 



104) In reference to the personnel of the new Committee, the Commis- 

 sion presents the following resolution : 



105) Resolved, That, for purpose of organizing, the initial members 

 of the Committee on Transitional List shall be: Professor Brauer (Secre- 

 tary of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft), Doctor Mortensen (of 

 Kopenhagen), and Doctor Williston (of the University of Chicago) ; and 



106) Resolved, That these men be authorized and instructed to 

 complete the jiersonnel of the Commission. 



107) A ne w edition of the Code. — The Commission recommends 

 to the Congress the insertion into the proceedings of the present Congress 

 a copy of the revised Code of rules, and that the summaries of Opinions be 

 printed in the Appendix. 



108) Signed in name of the Commission, 



C. "W, Stiles, Secretary. 

 109) Supplemental Report. 



110) After the foregoing report was prepared, an additional proposition 

 was submitted to the Commission that had been adopted by the Section on 

 Nomenclature. This proposition, however, after presentation of the fore- 

 going and this supplemental report, the Section voted to reconsider, and 

 upon such reconsideration the Section approved in its place the resolutions 

 presented in this Supplemental Report. — C. "W. S. 



111) In presenting this Supplemental Report, the Secretai-y made a 

 verbal statement to the effect that these resolutions were not completed until 

 after the foregoing Report had been adopted by the Commission, hence 

 they could not be included in the regular Report. They were in fact not 



