160 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Sir Sidney S. Saunders communicated some " Further notes on the 

 Caprification of domestic Figs, with reference to Dr. Paul Mayer's comments 

 thereon." 



Part V. of the 'Transactions' for 1883 (Index, &c.) was on the table. 



March 5, 188 i. — Special General Meeting. — J. W. Dunning, Esq., 

 M.A., F.L.S., &c.. President, in the chair. 



Pursuant to a requisition presented to the President and Council, and 

 in accordance witli chapter xix. of the Bye-Laws, a Special JMeetinpf was 

 convened for this dny, to consider the desirability of obtaining a charter 

 incorporating the Society. 



Prof. Westwood, Hon. Life-President, proposed : — 



"That it is desirable to obtain for the Society a Royal Charter of 

 Incorporation." 



Mr. Stainton seconded the proposition. 



The meeting was addressed by Mr. Verrall, Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. Slater, 

 and the President. 



On being put to the vote, the proposition was carried ncni. con. 



Ordinary Meeting. — Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c., Hon. 

 Life-President, in the chair. 



Mr. J. W. Dunning called attention to a paper entitled " Description 

 of a Fieris new to science — Pieris Spilleri, mihi," by A. J. Spiller, published 

 in 'The Entomologist,' vol. xvii., p. 62, and spoke discouraging the hasty 

 imposition of personal names. If the attempt of one entomologist by this 

 means to confer honour (often undeserved) upon another might be excused, 

 what could be said for the man who is not content to wait till the compli- 

 ment is paid him by another, but insists upon crowning himself? The 

 President believed the case to be without precedent, and, as it was certainly 

 a departure from good taste, he trusted Air. Spiller would not find an 

 imitator. 



Whilst on the subject of paronymic nomenclature, the President desired 

 to enter a protest agaiust such grotesque barbarisms as Huxelhydrus, 

 TyndalUiijdrus, Darwinhydrus, and Spencerhydrus, which met his eye on 

 perusing the pages of the ' Zoological Record' for 1882. Such hideous and 

 unmeaning forms only tend to bring scientilic nomenclature into contempt. 



Prof. Westwood recommended a study of the principles laid down in 

 Linne's ' Philosophia Botanica' and in Fabricius' ' Philosophia Entomo- 

 logica' to all nomenciators. 



Mr. E. Saunders read the concluding part of his " Synopsis of the 

 British Hymenoptera Aculeata — Part Hi. Ajjida." Also " Further Notes 

 on the terminal segments of Aculeate Hymenoptera." — E. A. Fitch, Hun. 

 Secretary. 



