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national Congress giving its authority to tlie formation of a List of 

 Zoological Names, the significance of which should not be. altei'ed 

 by application of the rules of the Intei-national Code. It was 

 vmanimously agreed to accept the action of the Congress if it 

 would adopt this coui'se. 



Report of the iNTERiifATiONAL Commission on 

 ZooLoaiCAL Nomenclature. 



Financial Aid from the Smithsonian Institution. — Owing to 

 the amount of clerical work connected with the studies conducted 

 by the Commission, it has been found veiy difficult in the past 

 for the Commission to render its decisions as promptly as desirable. 

 This difficulty has now been overcome by the genei'ous grant of 

 the sum of $2700 by the Smithsonian Institution ; said sum is 

 available at the discretion of the Commission at any time during 

 the three years following the grant. 



In addition, the Smithsonian Institution has placed at the 

 disposal of the Commission the siim of iS500 to be used in p;il)- 

 lishing the " Opinions " rendered by the Commission in its 

 function as a Court of Appeal. An aiTangement has been made 

 between the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 Secretary of the Commission, whereby the " Opinions " Avill be 

 published by the Institution and forwarded to 1100 libraries, to 

 the Members of the International Zoological Congress, and to a 

 limited list of specialists. 



Opinions rendered. — Since October, 1909, the Commission 

 has rendered 23 " Opinions " (Nos. 6-28), which are now in press 

 and which will soon be sent to all Members of the Congress. A 

 number of cases are still befoi-e the Commission for study and 

 will be passed upon in the near future. The svimmaries of 

 Opinions 6-28 are as follows : — 



6. In case of a genus A, Linnaus, 1758, with two species Ah and Ac. — When 



a latei" author rlivicles the genus A, species Ah and Ac, leaving genus A 

 only species Ah, and genus C, nionotypic, with species Cc : 



The second author is to be consti'ued as having fixed the type of the 

 genus A. [See Article oO.] 

 Vote : Affirmative 14 ; negative 0; not voting 1. 



7. On the interpretation of the expression "n. g., n. sp." under Article 30 {a). — 



The expression " n. g., n. sp.," used in publication of a new genus for 

 which no other species is otherwise designated as genotype, is to be 

 accepted as designation under Article 30 (a). 

 Vote : Affirmative 8 ; negative 3 ; not voting 2 ; vote both ways 2. 



8. On the reteniion of ii or i in specific patroni/'inic names, under Article 14 (c) 



and Article 19. — Specific patronymics originally published as ending in 

 ii (as schrankii, ehheshornii) are, according to Article 19, to be retained 

 in their original form, despite the provision of Article 14 (c), which 

 provides that they should have been formed with only one i. 

 Vote: Afiirnialive 11 ; negative 1 ; not voting 2 ; vole both ways 1. 



