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influencer. J'adhere en outre completement aux excellentes raisons 

 donnees par Mr. le Prof, Fernald* et Mr. Kirby** dans leurs 

 rdponses." 



[*Reply 5. **Reply 3. Durrant.'] 



8. AURIVILLIUS (C). 



"Everyone who approves of the law of priority must, I think, 

 also take as a starting-point the oldest work in which the binomial 

 system is applied to the organisms with which he is occupied. As 

 to the insects this work is, as far as I know, the lOth edition of 

 Systema Naturae, but, as Prof Thorell long ago has pointed out, 

 for the Aranea it is Clerck's Araneae Siiccicae (1757), and for the 

 plants Linne's Species Plantannn (1753). To reject the loth 

 edition of Systema Naturae, Clerck's Icones, Linne's Fauna Suecica, 

 and Museum Ludovicae Ulricae and other works published before 

 the 1 2th edition, is therefore inconsistent with the law of priority." 



9. Staudinger (O.). 5 March 1897. 



" Eine fiir die zoologische Wissenschaft durchaus nothwendige, 

 einheitliche, feststehende Nomenclatur ist ohne Beobachtung des 

 strengsten Prioritdtspriiicips unmoglich. Deshalb muss zweifellos 

 Linne's Editio X. reformata seines Systema Naturae (1758) als 

 Ausgangspunkt der heute giiltigen Linne'schen Binomenclatur 

 genommen werden. Wer die Editio Xll. (1766 — 1768) als Aus- 

 gangspunkt nimmt, verletzt sofort das Prioritatsgesetz ohne welches 

 eine feststehende zoologische Nomenclatur niemals zu Stande 

 kommen kann." 



10. Grote (A. R.). 25 May 1897. 



" I am in favour of adopting the loth edition of the Syst. Nat. 

 1758, and for the reasons given by Lord Walsingham* (also by 

 Dr Staudinger)**." 



[*Reply 2. **Reply 9. Durrani^ 



11. Hampson (Sir G. F.). 27 May 1897. 

 [Vide Hampson i. Dtirrant?^ 



" I find I must alter my opinion and adopt the loth edition of 

 Linnaeus as the basis of nomenclature, as authors in the other 

 branches of Zoology seem all to be adopting it, and consider that 

 its adoption gives, on the whole, the best results ; the Arachnologists 

 indeed are going back one year further to Clerck's At'aneae, 17 S7" 



12. Meyrick (E.). 18 July 1897. 

 [Vide Meyrick 4. Diirrant?\ 



"Finding that the tendency to adopt the lOth edition is so 

 strong, I am now prepared to agree with the majority on this point, 

 and will adopt it also ; we are therefore all agreed on this." 



