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REPORT OF THE 



BRITISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



The National Committees on Nomenclature owe their 

 existence to the action of the second International Congress 

 of Entomology held at Oxford in 1912, which pronounced 

 unanimously in favour of their creation in consequence of 

 a resolution put before it by the Entomological Society of 

 London, by whom it had been adopted at their meeting on 

 June 5th, 1912 (Proc. Ent. Soc. 1S12. p. Ixv-lxvii). The 

 formation of these National Committees was entrusted to 

 the Entomological Societies of the different countries (Proc. 

 2nd Int. Congr. Ent. 1. p. 119-121), and the Entomological 

 Society of London was invited, through its Council, to 

 nominate at first two, and afterwards three, members of the 

 British Council. The I'econnnendations of the Council were 

 adopted by the Society at their meeting on March 5th, 1913 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc. 1913. p. xiii), and it was at the same time 

 resolved to form a permanent Committee of their own, con- 

 sisting of the President and one of the Secretaries of the 

 Society, their three members of the National Committee, 

 the British member of the International Committee and two 

 elected members. As the only member of the National 

 Committee elected by any other British Society (the Birming- 

 ham Entomological Society) had already been elected as one 

 of their unofficial members by the Entomological Society of 

 London, the Committee formed by the latter eventually be- 

 came and was recognised as the " British National Committee 

 of Entomological Nomenclatui'e." 



The duties assigned to the International Committee by the 

 Congress were : — 



To collect, in co-operation with the National Committees, 



