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exist upon adjournment of the present congress. 

 These nominations are: 



Class of 1919: Professor C. Apstein, of Berlin, 

 Germany (Professor von Maehrenthal 's successor 

 in the ofB.ce of Das Tierreieh), vioe Professor 

 Louis Dollo, of Brussels, resigned. 



Professor Eoule, of the Paris Museum, vioe G. 

 A. Boulenger, resigned. 



Class of 1922: Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, vice J. 

 A. AUen, term expired. 



Ph. Dautzenberg, of Paris, vice, Ph. Dautzen- 

 berg, term expired. 



Professor H. J. Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum, 

 vice Professor Hubert Ludwig, of Bonn, term ex- 

 pired. 



Dr. Wm. Evans Hoyle, director of the National 

 Museum of Wales, at Cardiff, vice W. E. Hoyle, 

 term expired. 



Dr. Karl Jordan, secretary of the International 

 Committee on Entomological Nomenclature, vice 

 F. C. von Maehrenthal deceased and term ex- 

 pired. 



(14) Proposition to enlarge the Commission. — 

 This commission originally consisted of five mem 

 bers, elected at the Leyden congress in 1895 

 Upon recommendation of the original commission, 

 the Cambridge (189S) congress increased the num 

 ber of commissioners to fifteen. The present com 

 mission is of the opinion that it is now in the 

 interest of the subject to increase the membership 

 from fifteen to eighteen with the understanding 

 that the three new commissioners shall be so ar- 

 ranged that one joins the class of 1916, one that 

 of 1919 and one that of 1922. The commission is 

 led to this recommendation by several reasons, 

 notably by the three following: (1) there exists 

 at present an excellent opportunity to cooperate 

 in work on the nomenclature of entomology and 

 the situation is such that the commission desires 

 the services of two additional entomologists in 

 this connection; (2) the work of the commission 

 has increased to such an extent that it seems in 

 the interest of the subject to have three more men 

 available' for service; (3) the commission feels 

 that it is desirable to return to its former policy 

 of having a paleontologist among its members and 

 in view of the present amount of work before us 

 this wiU be difficult unless authority is given for 

 the appointment of the additional men requested. 

 If the congress authorizes the three additional 

 men, the commission is prepared to make the nom- 

 inations required, as follows: 



Class of 1916 : Dr. Henry Skinner, of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Class of 1919: Dr. Geza HorvSth, of Budapest. 



Class of 1922: Dr. F. A. Bather, assistant keeper 

 of geology, British Museum of Natural History, 

 London. 



(15) Offers of Cooperation. — It is a pleasure to 

 report that two nomenclatorial committees have, 

 since the last congress, made overtures to the 

 commission to cooperate in work. 



One offer of cooperation has come from the 

 Committee on Nomenclature of the American 

 Paleontological Society and consisting of Wm. H. 

 Dall, P. H. Knowlton and S. W. Williston (sec- 

 retary). 



Another offer of cooperation has come from the 

 International Committee on Entomological Nom- 

 enclature. 



(16) In this connection it may be stated that a 

 working arrangement has been made between the 

 secretary of the International Committee on Ento- 

 mological Nomenclature and the Secretary of the 

 International Commission on Zoological Nomen- 

 clature, in accordance with which all questions on 

 entomological nomenclature will be referred to 

 the International Committee on Entomological 

 Nomenclature for study as to premises and for 

 report before any opinion on them is issued by the 

 International Commission, and attention is in- 

 vited to the fact that the secretary of the Com- 

 mittee on Entomological Nomenclature has been 

 nominated for membership in the International 

 Commission. Whether the time will ever come 

 that the International Commission on Zoological 

 Nomenclature will consist chiefly or exclusively of 

 the secretaries of various international committees 

 representing special groups remains to be seen. 



(17) By-laws. — The commission has made no 

 amendment to its by-laws since 1910, but attention 

 may be invited to the fact that the president is 

 the presiding officer and that the secretary is the 

 administrative oflicer. If, therefore, any person 

 desires to submit propositions to the entire com- 

 mission, time wUl be saved if they are sent di- 

 rectly to the secretary, whose permanent address 

 is: Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health 

 Service, Washington, D. C. 



(18) In order to avoid misunderstanding in the 

 future, attention may be invited to the fact that 

 the commission does not feel called upon to con- 

 sider any communication addressed to it only 

 through the medium of journals or the proceedings 

 of learned societies. To insure consideration of 

 communications the latter may best be sent direct 



