120 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



ripe just now, and they do not cross with sufficient readiness for my 

 purpose. I expect to remain in Naples until September 6. ' 



A meeting of zoologists was held in London on March 31 to consider 

 what steps should be taken to maintain a table at the Zoological Station 

 at Naples for investigators of British nationality. As a result of that 

 meeting a promise has been received of financial assistance, not exceed- 

 ing 1001., extending over a period of two years, pending arrangements 

 to be made for placing the British table on a permanent footing. 



As some time may yet elapse before the necessary arrangements can 

 be completed, the Committee ask for reappointment by the British 

 Association with a grant of half the usual amount — 501, 



Index Generum et Specierum Animalium. — Report of the Committee, 



consisting of Dr. Henry Woodward (Chairman), Dr. F. A. Bather 



(Secretary), Dr. P. L. Sclater, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 



• Dr. W. E. Hoyle, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and Lord 



Walsingham. 



Since the 1910 Report systematic search through literature has pro- 

 ceeded up to the letter E. Further, a group of especially troublesome 

 and difficult books has been dealt with, e.g. : — • 



Oken's 'Isis,' 41 vols., 1817-48; 



Froriep's ' Notizen,' 102 vols., 1821-50; 



Ersch and Gruber, ' Allgem. Encyclopaedic, ' 103 vols., 1818-50; 

 and many other volumes have been indexed out of the general order as 

 asked for or required — as, for instance, the works of Jacob Huebner, 

 which are now in. Mr. Sherborn's hands in hope that he may obtain 

 some further information as to the dates of their publication. 



The search for rare literature continues, and Mr. Sherborn desires 

 to thank Dr. Karpinski for obtaining for him the second volume of the 

 Trudui of the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society, 1831 ; Dr. 

 Bashford Dean and Mr. O. F. Cook for a complete set of ' Brandtia ' 

 1896-97, both of which works will find a resting place in the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.) when done with. He also desires to thank Mr. 

 Tom Iredale for much valuable help in obscure bird genera. 



The following papers have been written in connection with the 

 Index :- — 



' On the dates of publication of Costa's " Fauna del Regno di 

 Napoli " 1829-1886,' ' Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.' (8) v., 1910, 132. 



'A collation of J. C. Chenu's " Illustr. Conch." and a note on 

 P. L. Duclos' "Hist. Nat. gen. et part. Coquilles " ' (with Mr. 

 Edgar A. Smith), ' Proc. Malac. Soc.,' ix., March 1911. 



' Note on John Curtis ' " British Entom." ' (with Mr. J. Hartley 

 Durrant), ' Entom. Month. Mag.,' xlvii., April 1911. 



Your Committee confidently recommend their reappointment, and 

 earnestly ask the Association further to support this valuable work by 

 a grant of 100?, 



