Septembeb 2, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



301 



Evening: Illustrated lecture, Big Game, Ar- 

 thur Kadclyffe Dugmore, New York. 



September 7 — Morning : " Eational Taxa- 

 tion of Resources," Dr. Francis L. McVey, 

 president of the University of North Dakota; 

 "The Interest of the Eailways of the South 

 in Conservation," W. W. Finley, president of 

 the Southern Eailway Company ; " Laws That 

 Should Be Passed," Francis G. Newlands, 

 Senator from Nevada ; " Making Our People 

 Count," Dr. Edwin B. Craighead, president of 

 Tulane University ; " The Press and the Peo- 

 ple," D. Austin Latchaw, Kansas City Star. 

 Afternoon : " Farm Conservation," James 

 Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture; "Cattle, 

 Food and Leather," Jonathan P. Dolliver, 

 United States Senator from Iowa ; " Conser- 

 vation and Country Life," Professor Liberty 

 Hyde Bailey, Cornell University ; " Soils, 

 Crops, Food and Clothing," James J. Hill, of 

 St. Paul. Evening: Illustrated lecture, 

 "Birds," Frank M. Chapman, curator, de- 

 partment of birds. New York City. 



September 8 — Morning : " Pan-American 

 Conservation," John Barrett, Bureau of 

 American Republics, Washington ; " This 

 Continent as a Home for our People," Dr. 

 W J McGee, United States Department of 

 Agriculture ; " The Forest and the Nation," 

 Henry S. Graves, United States Forester; 

 " Life and Health as National Assets," Dr. 

 F. F. Wesbrook, Minneapolis. Afternoon : 

 " The Natural Resources Belong to the Peo- 

 ple," James R. Garfield, former Secretary of 

 the Interior ; " Are We Mining Intelligently ?" 

 Thomas L. Lewis, president of the United 

 Mine Workers of America ; " Education and 

 Conservation," Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, 

 United States Commissioner of Education. 

 Evening : Illustrated lecture, " Personal and 

 National Thrift," B. N. Baker, president of 

 the National Conservation Congress. 



September 9 — Morning : " Conservation 

 True Patriotism," Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, 

 president-general of the National Society, 

 Daughters of the American Revolution; 

 " Saving Our Boys and Girls," Judge Ben. B. 

 Lindsey, Denver; "The Conservation Pro- 



gram," Gifford Pinchot, president of the Na- 

 tional Conservation Association; reports of 

 committees. 



THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON 

 ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 



The Second International Commission on 

 Nomenclature was appointed in 1895 by the 

 third International Zoological Congress, held 

 at Leyden, Holland. It was directed to study 

 the various codes of nomenclature and to re- 

 port to a later congress. At the fourth (Cam- 

 bridge, England) congress, 1898, the commis- 

 sion was made a permanent body, and in- 

 creased to fifteen members, who later (at the 

 Berne congress, 1904) were divided into three 

 classes of five commissioners each, each class, 

 to serve nine years. 



During the interval between the congresses, 

 the commission has been in correspondence; 

 it has held one meeting (1897) between con- 

 gresses, and regular meetings during the tri- 

 ennial congresses. As a result of its labors, 

 the original Paris-Moscow (1889, 1892, the 

 Blanchard) code was taken as the basis, and 

 with certain amendments was adopted (Berlin 

 congress, 1901) by the International Congress. 

 Amendments were presented by the commis- 

 sion to the Boston congress (1907) and were 

 adopted. 



The Berlin meeting (1901) adopted a rule 

 that no amendment to the code should there- 

 after be presented to any congress for vote 

 unless said amendment was in the hands of 

 the commission at least one year prior to the 

 meeting of the congress to which it was pro- 

 posed to present the amendment. 



Prior to the Boston congress a desire had 

 developed among zoologists that the commis- 

 sion should serve as a court for the interpre- 

 tation of the code, and in accordance there- 

 with the commission presented to the Boston 

 congress five opinions which were ratified by 

 the congress. 



Since the Boston meeting, a number of 

 questions on nomenclature have been sub- 

 mitted to the commission for opinion. Owing 

 to the amount of time consumed in communi- 



