INTRODUCTION. \-j 



At the eighth meeting (second session) of the Committee, 

 held March 8, 1884, the subcommittee appointed to "formulate 

 and codify the nomenclatural results reached by the Commit- 

 tee " presented its report ; whereupon the following resolution 

 prevailed : 



" That the report of the subcommittee on formulation and codifica- 

 tion of nomenclatural rules be accepted and affirmed ; and that the 

 subcommittee be instructed to prepare a fair manuscript copy of the 

 Code, to embody the Nomenclatural Rules which the Committee has 

 adopted and proposes to recommend to the Union for adoption ; 

 taking the Stricklandian Code as the basis of departure, disencumber- 

 ing that Code of whatever may be deemed superfluous or objection- 

 able, and engrafting upon it the Rules and Recommendations which 

 the whole Committee has approved." 



