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RESOLUTION OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 



LONDON. 



Moved by G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



On behalf of the Entomological Societ\" of London. I beg to 

 move the following resolution : — 



" The present independent and irrespon>ible methods of giving 

 and adopting names having resulted in much unnecessary 

 synonymy, and even graver abuses, the Entomological Society 

 of London feels that the time has arrived when some check 

 should be placed upon the practice of more weight than that 

 which can be exercised by any single individual, society, or 

 publication, and would urge upon the International Congress the 

 establishment of a permanent International Committee to deal 

 with questions of nomenclature as affecting Entomologx' ; to 

 consider what elucidations, extensions, or emendations, if anv, are 

 required in the International Code ; and to confer with the Inter- 

 national Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. The Entomo- 

 logical Society of London recommends that the International 

 Entomological Committee, when formed, shall take such action 

 as to ensure the adequate representation of Entomolog\' on the 

 International Zoological Commission. The Society also recom- 

 mends that, considering the difficulty of frequent International 

 meetings, the leading Entomological Societ\' of each country be 

 invited to appoint a Committee whose dut\- it shall be to deal 

 \vith all questions arising in their own country, subject to reference 

 to the International Committee ; and suggests that the Inter- 

 national Committee be composed of two or three members of each 

 of the National Committees, elected either b\- the Conuuittees, 

 or directly by the electing societies." 



This question — having disturbed the minds of many ento- 

 mologists here — was brought to a head by the jniblication of a 

 paper in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for Februarx lou, 

 by Meyrick. in which he published a list of no less than 



