STRAY FEATHERS. 



Vol. V. NOVEMBER 1877. Nos. 5 & 6. 



REPRINT. 



RULES 



FOB 



ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 



BY TBE LATE 



HUGH E. STRICKLAND, M.A, OS. 



AUTHOKISED BY SECTION D 



OF 



BRITISH ^SSOCIi^TIOlSr 



AT MANCHESTER, 1842. 



Reform of the Nomenclature of Zoology was a subject which 

 occupied much of the time of the late Hugh E. Strickland.* 

 It was his object that this reform should be brought forward 

 under the auspices of the British Association, and at a meeting 

 of the Council of that body, held in London upon 11th Febru- 

 ary 1842, it was resolved — "That with a view of securing 

 attention to the following important subject, a committee, con- 

 sisting of Mr. C. Darwin, Professor Henslow, Rev. L. Jenyns, 

 Mr. W. Ogilby, Mr. J. Phillips, Dr. Richardson, Mr. H. E. 

 Strickland (reporter), Mr. J. 0. Westwood, be appointed, to 

 consider of the rules by which the Nomenclature of Zoology 



* See Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland, by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., p. clxxv. 



