"Entomological Nomenclature. — The undersigned, considering the confu- 

 sion with which entomological nomenclature is threatened (and from which 

 it is already to no small extent suffering) by the reinstatement of forgotten 

 names to supersede those in universal employment, urge upon entomologists 

 the desirability of ignoring the names so brought forward, until such time 

 as the method of dealing with them shall be settled by a common agree- 

 ment. 



H. W. Bates Frederick Bond 



Alfred K. Wallace J. Jenner Weir 



William C. Hewitson E. Shepherd 



Francis P. Pascoe Edward W. Jausou 



T. Vernon Wollaston Edward Newman 



John A. Power E. T. Higgins 



Samuel Stevens Pi. F. Logan 



Edward Sheppard J. Greene 



Ferdinand Grut Thomas H. Briggs 



J. W. Dunning W. C. Boyd 



Frederic Moore Howard Vaughan," 



W. Arnold Lewis 



Prof. Westwood stated that he had recently published some remarks ou 

 the law of priority in nomenclature in the ' Academy ' ; he considered a 

 law similar to that which limits adverse claims to real property in this 

 country to a period of twenty years, might with equal advantage be applied 

 in Zoology. 



November 4, 1872. 



Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,' vol. xxviii. 

 pt. 2; vol. xxix. pt. 1 ; Proceedings, Session 1871-72; Journal, No. 55 ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Nos. 135, 

 136 and 137 ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of 

 the Zoological Society of London,' 1872, pt. 1 ; by the Society. ' BuUettino 

 dclla Societa Entomologica Italiana,' iv. trim. 2 & 3 ; by the Society. 

 ' Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft,' vol. iii. 

 No. 9 ; by the Society. ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes 

 de Moscou,' 1872, No. 1 ; by the Society. ' The Transactions of the Ento- 

 mological Society of New South Wales,' vol. ii. pt. 4 ; by the Society. 

 'Annales de la Societe Linueenne de Lyon,' N. S. tome xviii. ; by the 



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