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Actinomyces scabies (Thaxter) Guessow = 

 Oospora scabies, Thaxter. 

 At the same time I shall rectify the genus 



and species as far as given by Saccardo under 



Nocardia as follows: 



Actinomyces Harz 18Y8 = Streptothrix Cohn 

 1875; Rossi Doria 1891 = Bacterium Afa- 

 nasiev 1888 = Oospora Sauvageau et Eadis 

 1892; Thaxter 1891 = Discomyces Eivolta 

 1878; R. Blanchard 1900 = Nocardia de 

 Toni et Trevisan 1889; E. Blanchard 1900 

 = Actinomyces Gasperini 1894 = Actino- 

 myce Meyen 1827 = Cladothrix Mace 1897. 



Actinomyces farcinica (Trev.) Guessow = 

 Nocardia farcinica Trev. 



Actinomyces boms (Harz) Guessow = J/'ocar- 

 dia Actinomyces Trev. 



Actinomyces Foersteri (Cohn) Guessow = 

 Nocardia Foersteri (Cohn) Trev. 



Actinomyces arborescens (Edingt.) Guessow 

 = Nocardia arborescens (Edingt.) Trev. 



Actinomyces ferruginea (Trev.) Guessow^ 

 Nocardia ferruginea Trev. 



H. T. GiJssow 

 DmsiON OF Botany, 



EXPEEIMENTAL FAKMS, 



Ottawa, Canada 



TEE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS 



The Central and Eastern Branches of The Amer- 

 ican Society of Zoologists met in joint session at 

 the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, De- 

 cember 29, 1913, to January 1, 1914, inclusive, in 

 conjunction with The American Society of Nat- 

 uralists, The American Society of Anatomists and 

 the Federation of American Societies for Experi- 

 mental Biology. 



At the meeting for business, held during the 

 afternoon of December 30, the following persons 

 were elected to membership in the society: 



central branch - 



James Edward Ackert, Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, Manhattan, Kan. 



Bobert Chambers, University of Cincinnati, Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. 



John Morton Elrod, Missoula, Montana. 



E. H. Harper, Northwestern University, Evanston, 

 111. 



Frederick Isely, Central College, Fayette, Mo. 



Euth Marshall, Rockford College, Eoekford, 111. 



H. L. Wieman, University of Cincinnati, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. 



EASTERN BRANCH 



Gardiner C. Bassett, Carnegie Station for Experi- 

 mental Evolution, Long Island, N. Y. 



Eaymond Binford, Guilford College, North Caro- 

 lina. 



Maynie E. Curtis, Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Orono, Me. 



Hubert Dana Goodale, Amherst College, Amherst, 

 Mass. 



B. H. Grave, Knox College, Galesburg, 111. 

 Emily Eay Gregory, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. 

 Louise Hoyt Gregory, Barnard College, New York. 

 George Lester Kite, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia. 



C. C. Little, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 

 E. Carlton McDowell, Yale University, New Haven, 



Conn. 

 Norman Eugene Mclndoo, Bureau of Entomology, 



Washington. 

 Edith M. Patch, University of Maine, Orono, Me. 

 Alice Eobertson, Wellesley College, Wellesley, 



Mass. 

 The "committee on organization and policy," 

 appointed at the meeting held at Princeton in 1911, 

 submitted its report in the form of a new consti- 

 tution, the text of which had been printed and dis- 

 tributed to all members of the society several days 

 prior to the meeting. This proposed constitution 

 was considered section by section and, with certain 

 amendments, was imanimously adopted. In its 

 adopted form, it is as follows: 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OP ZOOLOGISTS' CONSTITU- 

 TION 



Article I 

 Name and Object 

 Sec. 1. The society shall be called the American 

 Society of Zoologists. 



Sec. 2. The object of the society shall be the 

 association of workers in the field of zoology for 

 the presentation and discussion of new or impor- 

 tant facts and uroblems in that science and for the 

 adoption of such measures as shall tend to the ad- 

 vancement of zoological investigation in this 

 country. 



Article II 



Membership 



Sec. 1. Members of the society shall be elected 

 from persons who are active workers in the field of 

 zoology and who have contributed to the advance- 

 ment of that science. 



Sec. 2. Election to membership in the society 

 shall be upon recommendation of the executive 

 conunittee. 



Sec. 3. Each member shall pay to the treasurer 

 an annual assessment as determined by the society. 

 This assessment shall be considered due at the an- 

 nual meeting and the name of any member two 

 years in arrears for annual assessments shall be 

 erased from the list of members of the society; 

 and no such persons shall be restored to member- 

 ship unless his arrearages shall have been paid or 

 he shall have been reelected. 



