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on every specific point of nomenclature, considering the 

 opinions thus collected, laying a report before the Entomological 

 Congress, and then bringmg the matter before the International 

 Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for final consideration. 

 The Resolution of the Entomological Society of London was 

 then put. 



Hon. W. Rothschild said that it would not be legal to 

 adopt the Resolution in face of the action of the First Congress, 

 which had charged the Executive Committee with the nomina- 

 tion of a Committee on Nomenclature. 



Rev. G. Wheeler rejoined that to take out the words re- 

 ferring to the appointment of the National Committees was to 

 destroy the suggestion altogether, viz. that the national com- 

 mittees should appoint the central one, not the central com- 

 mittee the national ones. 



L. O. Howard objected that the Resolution was not in proper 

 form. It was a resolution of the Entomological Society of 

 London. The meeting might endorse its general provisions, 

 but the resolution must be brought before the Congress in a 

 definite form by the Executive Committee. Dr. Howard moved 

 " that the matter be referred to the Executive Committee, to 

 formulate a resolution applicable to the Congress, to be reported 

 at the General Meeting for the consideration of the present 

 Congress." 



L. DoNCASTER said that in the absence of the appointed 

 representative of Cambridge University to the Congress, he had 

 been asked to convey to the Congress the general support of 

 Cambridge entomologists for the principle of the Resolution 

 submitted by the Entomological Society of London. 



A. Seitz schlägt vor, dass das Komitee auch seinerseits ge- 

 wisse Garantien gibt, dass die eingereichten \'orschläge und 

 Anfragen innerhalb einer gewissen Zeit erledigt werden. Solche 

 Garantien würden geeignet sein, den Widerstand gegen den sehr 

 annehmbaren Vorschlag der Entomological Society zu brechen. 



H, Skinner had much pleasure in seconding L. O. Howard's 

 amendment. 



G. A. K. Marshall asked whether the Executive Committee 

 had not already considered the Ret:olution of the Entomological 

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