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completed until the morning of the last day of the Congress. Prior to the 

 meeting of the Section on Nomenclature , most of the members of the Com- 

 mission had approved the resolutions, and the Section took a recess in order 

 to permit the other Commissioners to consider them. All Commissioners 

 approved the resolutions and the Secretary was instructed to present them 

 to the Section and the Congress as a Supplemental Report. From a pai'lia- 

 mentary point of view, they are accepted by the Commission as addition to 

 the subject discussed in paragraph ^102) of the Report and as part substi- 

 tute for several of the proposals that had been presented as amendments to 

 the Code. The subject matter was first presented to the Commission during 

 its Graz meeting, and since that time has been under more or less con- 

 sideration. It was discussed during the Monaco (1913) meeting of the Con- 

 gress, but the form of the proposition was not agreed upon until immediately 

 prior to its presentation at the joint session of the Commission and of the 

 Section on Nomenclature. — C. W. S. 



112) The Commission unanimously recommends to the Congress the 

 adoption of the following resolutions : 



113 Ì Resolved, That plenary power is herewith conferred upon the 

 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, acting for this Con- 

 gress, to suspend the Règles as applied to any given case, where in its judg- 

 ment the strict application of the Règles will clearly result in greater con- 

 fusion than uniformity, provided, however, that not less than one years 

 notice shall be given in any two or more of the following publications, na- 

 mely. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Monitore zoologico, 

 Nature, Science (N. Y.), and Zoologischer Anzeiger, that the question of a 

 possible suspension of the Règles as applied to such case is under considera- 

 tion, thereby making it possible for zoologists, particularly specialists in the 

 group in question, to present arguments for or against the suspension under 

 consideration; and provided, also, that the vote in Commission is un- 

 animously in favor of suspension; and provided, further, that if the vote 

 in Commission is a two-thirds majority of the full Commission, but not a 

 unanimous vote in favor of suspension, the Commission is hereby instructed 

 to report the facts to the next succeeding International Congress ; and 



114 Resolved, That in the event that a case reaches the Congress, 

 as hereinbefore described, with two-thirds majority of the Commission in 

 favor of Suspension, but without unanimous report, it shall be the duty of 

 the President of the Section on Nomenclature to select a special board of 

 3 members, consisting of one member of the Commission who voted on each 

 side of the question and one ex- member of the Commission who has not 

 expressed any public opinion on the case, and this special board shall review 

 the evidence presented to it, and its report, either majority or unanimous, 

 shall be final and without appeal, so far as the Congress is concerned; and 

 115) Resolved, That the foregoing authority refers in the first in- 

 stance and especially to cases of the names of larval stages and the trans- 

 ference of names from one genus or species to another; and 



116 Resolved, That the Congress fully approves plan that has been 

 inaugurated by the Commission of conferring with special committees from 

 the special group involved in any given case, and that it authorizes and 

 instructs the Commission to continue and extend this policy. 



