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period by so keen and discriminating a naturalist and one who 

 had shown a life-long devotion to the Aculeates, not only as 

 specimens, but as living beings — nothing except the Miillerian 

 principle could be suggested as the cause of the Coloui'-groups, 

 then it was far more reasonable to conclude that the in- 

 sufficiency of the evidence was due to changed conditions 

 brought about by man,* than to suppose that there existed in 

 these restricted areas some set of. causes hitherto unsuspected 

 and unknown. 



Wednesday, June 5th, 1912. 

 The Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Election of a Fellow. 



Mr. Henry Francis Carter, Assistant Lecturer and 

 Demonstrator in Medical and Economic Entomology, Liver- 

 pool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society, 



Pi'ocedure. 



The President announced that it was requested that for 

 the future the names of intending exhibitors should be handed 

 in at the beginning of the meeting, in order that they might 

 be called upon from the Chair. 



Report of the Committee on Nomenclature. 

 The Eev. G. Wheeler read the following Report : — 



"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, 



"The Committee appointed on April 3rd, 1912, 'to 

 consider the subject of nomenclature, and report to the June 

 meeting with a view to the coming International Congress,' 

 has endeavoured to deal carefully and minutely with the 

 matter entrusted by you to its attention. 



" In accordance with the powers conferred on the members 



* Dr. Perkins describes the immense changes that have taken place in 

 the bird fauna within his own memory, and argues that, if the Colour- 

 groups were formed by the Miillerian principle, it was under conditions 

 that do not now exist. 



PROC. ENT. SOC. LQNP., II. 1912. B 



