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interested audiences of the Congress. In the morning the 

 Eev. G. Wheeler, M.A., F.E.S., and Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker (delegates of our Society, with the President, the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., and Mr, H. Rowland-Brown) 

 introduced the subject of "Nomenclature with a communica- 

 tion from the Entomological Society of London," Mr. Bethune- 

 Baker's remarks being as follows : — 



" This question — having disturbed the minds of many 

 entomologists here — was brought to a head by the publication 

 of a paper in the E.M.M. for February 1912, by Meyrick, in 

 which he published a list of no less than ninety-four new 

 names as substitutes for a long series of new species described 

 by Kearfott in 1907, and published in the Trans. American 

 Ent. Soc, Vol, .33 (1907), and in the Canadian Entomologist for 

 the same year ; he also included three names of Busck's. The 

 matter was discussed veiy fully at two meetings of the Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., who appointed a sub-committee to consider the 

 whole question and to report, and after the report the 

 resolution I have moved was carried practically unanimously. 

 Without considering the propriety of Meyrick's substitutions 

 it was strongly felt that Kearfott's names were untenable, 

 primarily for the reason that to the ordinary person they are 

 quite unmemorable. It would not be possible for the ordinary 

 worker to memorise ninety plays on the syllable "ana," 

 without very serious effort and constant reference to the 

 originals ; in addition to this there are names such as 

 Enarmonia vana and wana ; Eucosma sandana, xandana, 

 zandana, vandana, wandana ; Phalonia foxana, voxana ; Eucos- 

 ma vovionana and womonana, and others somewhat similar. 

 The sound of Eucosma sandana, spelt with a.n s, x oy z, is 

 absolutely indistinguishable in English and other languages, 

 those beginning with v and w are indistinguishable in some 

 languages, and it was felt some steps ought to be taken to 

 prevent the recurrence of such a list of names. Besides these, 

 Kirkaldy published a series of what many consider objection- 

 able names, such as Polichisme, Ochisme, and it was considered 

 that such names could only bring Entomological science into 

 disrepute if they did not make it a laughing-stock to the 

 8cienti6c world. The resolution I have moved does not in 



