26 report — 1865. 



suggestions were received from eminent zoologists at home and abroad. The 

 " plan " was further considered by the Committee during the Meeting at 

 Manchester, " and the Committee having thus given their best endeavours 

 to maturing the plan, beg now to submit it to the approval of the British 

 Association under the title of — ' Series of Propositions for rendering the 

 nomenclature of zoology uniform and permanent ' "*. 



The propositions were printed in the Reports of the British Association, 

 and a grant of money was voted to print copies for circulation. The rules 

 thus laid down were very generally adopted by zoologists, both in this 

 country and abroad; but in Great Britain having been printed only in 

 the volumes of the British Association, 'Annals of Natural History,' and 

 'Philosophical Magazine 'f, or depending on private circulation, it was 

 deemed advisable that greater publicity should be given to them, and at the 

 Meeting at Oxford in 1860 it was resolved, that " The surviving members of 

 the Committee appointed in 1842, viz., Mr. C. Darwin, Rev. Professor 

 Henslow, Rev. L. Jenyns, Mr. W. Ogilby, Professor Phillips, Sir John 

 Richardson, Mr. J. 0. Westwood, Professor Owen, Mr. "W. E. Shuckard, 

 and Mr. G. R. "Waterhouse, for the purpose of preparing rules for the esta- 

 blishment of a Uniform Zoological Nomenclature, be reappointed, with Sir 

 W. Jardine, Bart., and Dr. Sclater. That Sir W. Jardine, Bart., be the 

 Reporter, and that the sum of £10 be placed at their disposal for the pur- 

 pose of revising and reprinting the Rules "J. 



Prom the difficulty of bringing such a Committee together, nothing was 

 done since the time of its appointment ; but the resolution and a grant of 

 money were again renewed at the late Meeting in Newcastle, as follows : — 

 "That Sir W.- Jardine, A. R. Wallace, J. E. Gray, Professor Babington, Dr. 

 Francis, Dr. Sclater, C. Spence Bate, P. P. Carpenter, Dr. J. D. Hooker, 

 Professor Balfour, H. T. Stainton, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, A. Newton, Professor 

 T. H. Huxley, Professor Allman, and G. Bentham, be a Committee, with 

 power to add to their number, to report on the changes, if any, which they 

 may consider it desirable to make in the Rules of Nomenclature drawn up 

 at the instance of the Association by Mr. H. E. Strickland and others, with 

 power to reprint these Rules, and to correspond with foreign naturalists and 

 others on tbe best means of ensuring their general adoption, and that the 

 sum of £15 be placed at their disposal for the purpose." 



Accordingly the Rules, as originally approved of, were reprinted, and 

 zoologists were requested " to examine them carefully, and to communicate 

 any suggestions for alteration or improvement, on or before the 1st of June, 

 1864, to Sir William Jardine, Bart., Jardine Hall, by Loclerby, N. B., who 

 will consult with the members of the Committee, and report upon the sub- 

 ject at the next Meeting of the British Association appointed to be held at 

 Bath." 



Erom the press of business at Bath the Committee did little there to com- 

 plete further the code of Zoological Nomenclature, and I was directed to 

 take some opportunity while in London to call together as many members 

 of the Committee as possible. Accordingly in the month of June last I sent 



* Report of Twelfth Meeting, 1842, p. 106. 



t At the Scientific Congress held in 1843 at Padua, the late Prince C. L. Buonaparte 

 submitted to the meeting an Italian translation of the ' British Association's Code of Rules,' 

 which was generally approved of. A French translation of the Report appeared in the 

 scientific journal ' L'Institut,' in which paper much stress was laid on the importance of 

 the measure. A review of it was also printed in the ' American Journal of Science.' 



% Reports of the British Association held at Oxford, I860, p. xlvi. 



