524) Letters, Extracts, and Notes. [Ibis, 



W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Zoology, 



University of Liverpool. 

 Sydney F. Hickson, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology, 



Victoria University of Manchester. 

 H. E". Johnston, G.C.M.G., D.Sc. 

 E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 

 P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., Secretary, Zoological Society 



of Loudon. 

 Robert Newstead, M.Sc, F.E.S., Professor of Entomology, 



University of Liverpool. 

 W. R.^ Ogilvie-Grant, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Keeper of Orni- 



thology, British Museum. 

 Montagu Sharpe, D.L., Chairman of Council, Royal Society 



for the Protection of Birds. 

 J. Arthur Thomson, LL.D., Regius Professor of Natural 



History in the University of Aberdeen. 



The B. 0. U. and Modern Nomenclatnre. 



Sir, — 111 view of what transpired at the Annual General 

 Meeting of the B. O. U. on March 13th, and of the regret- 

 table difference of opinion that exists in regard to the 

 present method of " advancing " ornithology, I ask myself 

 the question whether, at my time of life, it is worth while 

 to remain a member of the Union, now no longer deserving 

 of the name. It seems to me that the time has arrived for 

 me to come to some decision in the matter. One must 

 either continue to be a member of the Union and support 

 it, or leave it. I have decided to leave it for the following, 

 amongst other reasons, to which I have already referred in 

 a letter, of which only a portion was printed, in the last 

 number of ' The Ibis.' 



I feel that I can no longer subscribe to a journal which, 

 in spite of remonstrance, 



(1) Disregards the Stricklandian Code of Rules for 

 Zoological Nomenclature, which was unanimously 

 approved in 1812, 1863, 1878, and 1908 by com- 

 mittees of eminent British biolosrists : 



