18 PSYCHE [February 



Prof. V. S. Kellogg, Prof. Herbert Osborn, Prof. J. H. Comstock, Dr. P. P. Calvert, 

 Mr. F. M. Webster. 



Standing Commlitee on Nomenclature. 



To serve 3 years, Dr. H. T. Fernald, 



To serve 2 years. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 



To serve 1 year. Dr. E. P. Felt. 



Committee on Nomenclature: — Dr. Fernald moved, seconded by Dr. Smith, 



1. That the Entomological Society of America hereby endorses the Code of 

 Nomenclature adopted by the International Zoological Congress as the code which 

 should be used by the members of the Society so far as it can be applied. 



2. That cases not covered by this code v>diich may be presented to the Society 

 for consideration, be referred to a standing Committee on Nomenclature, to consist 

 of three members, one member of which shall be elected each year for a term of three 

 years, and the opinion of this Committee on cases referred to them, shall be reported 

 to the Society at the first annual meeting subsetjuent to their reference to the Com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. Bradley moved to amend by striking out the second clause, because ento- 

 mologv should not be treated as distinct from zooloo;v in general, and because the 

 Commission on Nomenclature established by the International Congress of Zoology 

 is the sufficient and proper body before which to bring such question for decision. 



Dr. Fernald stated that the reports of the Commission on Nomenclature of the 

 International Congress of Zoology are greatly delayed by the fact that the Congress 

 meets only once in three years, and by the rule that a question must be presented at 

 least a year before the meeting at which it is to be considered. It was not the inten- 

 tion of the mover that the Committee should act in opposition to or independently 

 from the Commission on Nomenclature, but that it should be instrumental in voic- 

 ing the needs of entomology before that body, which should be the final court of 

 reference. 



With that explanation, the amendment was withdrawn and motion passed. 

 Publication of a Journal: — 



Perhaps the most important act of the meeting was embodied in the following 

 resolutions adopted by the Executive Committee and confirmed by the Society: — 



1. That the Society undertake a publication to be called "Annals of the Ento- 

 mological Society of America," to be issued in quarterly fascicles. 



2. That it include only papers of importance or marked merit, and that each 

 be issued and bound separately as well as in fascicles so that each paper may be sold 

 separately. 



