122 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1919. 



Zoological Bibliography and Publication. — Report of the Com- 

 mittee consisting of Professor E. B. Poulton {Chairman), 

 Dr. F. A. Bather {Secretary), Mr. E. Heron-Allen, Dr. 

 W. Evans Hoylb, and Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. 

 Since the last published report, the attention of a few societies has 

 been drawn to their custom of issuing authors' reprints without the 

 required bibliographic details. 



So far as work germane to tliis Committee is concerned, the 

 activities of its secretarj^ have mainly consisted in service on two com- 

 mittees, appointed respectively by the Conjoint Board of Scientific 

 Societies and by the Council of the Eoyal Society to report on the 

 futm'e of scientific bibliography. 



In Science for July 5, 1918, there appeared a set of rules adopted 

 by the Entomological Society of Washington to govern publication in 

 its Proceedings. Some of these are essentially the same as those 

 already issued as suggestions by the Committee. Others, which seem to 

 us worthy of general adoption, are the following: — 



Eule 1. — No description of a new genus, or subgenus, will be pub- 

 lished unless there is cited as genotype a species which is established in 

 accordance with the current practice of zoological nomenclature. 



Eule 2. — In all cases a new genus, or subgenus, must be charac- 

 terised, and, if it is based on an undescribed species, the two must be 

 characterised separately. 



Eule 3. — No description of a species subspecies, variety, or form 

 will be published unless it is accompanied by a statement which includes 

 the following information, where known : (1) the type-locality ; (2) of 

 what the type material consists — with statement of sex, full data on 

 localities, dates, collectors, etc. ; and (3) present location of type 

 material. 



Eule 5. — The ordinal (or class) position of the group treated in any 

 paper must be clearly given in the title or in parentheses following 

 the title. 



Suggestion 3. — In discussion of type-material modern terms indi- 

 cating its precise nature will be found useful. Examples of these 

 terms are : type [or holotype] , allotype, paratype, cotype [or syntype] , 

 lectotype, neotype, etc. 



Suggestion 4. — In all cases in the serial treatment of genera or 

 species, and where first used in general articles, the authority for the 

 species, or genus, should be given; and the name of the authority 

 should not be abbreviated. 



Suggestion 6. — When a species discussed has been determined by 

 some one other than the author, it is important that reference be made 

 to the worker making the identification. 



We would also add, as a Eule, That when a new genus, sub-genus, 

 species, or variety is introduced, it should be accompanied by a dis- 

 tinct statement that it is new, e.g. by the addition of 'n.sp.,' etc. 

 Also that a species, etc., should not be described as new when it has 

 been introduced in a previous publication. 



Your Committee asks for reappointment, with a grant of £10 to 

 defray the expense of circulating these and its previous suggestions 

 among editors of zoological and cognate publicntions. 



