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and instructed to complete the personnel of the 

 committee. 



(107) A New Edition of the Code. — The com- 

 mission recommends to the congress the insertion 

 into the proceedings of the present congress a 

 copy of the revised code of rules, and that the 

 summaries of opinions be printed in the appendix. 



(108) Signed in name of commission. 



C. W. Stiles, 



Secretary 



(109) SUPPLEMENTAL KEPOET 



[(110) After the foregoing report was pre- 

 pared, an additional proposition was submitted to 

 the commission that had been adopted by the Sec- 

 tion on Nomenclature. This proposition, however, 

 after presentation of the foregoing and this sup- 

 plemental report, the section voted to reconsider 

 and upon such reconsideration the section approved 

 in its place the resolutions presented in this sup- 

 plemental report. — G. W. S.] 



[(Ill) In presenting this supplemental report, 

 the secretary made a verbal statement to the effect 

 that these resolutions were not completed until 

 after the foregoing report had been adopted by 

 the commission, hence they could not be included 

 in the regular report. They were in fact not com- 

 pleted until the mornuig of the last day of the 

 congress. Prior to the meeting of the Section on 

 Nomenclature, most of the members of the com- 

 mission had approved the resolutions, and the 

 section took a recess in order to permit the other 

 commissioners to consider them. All commissioners 

 approved the resolutions and the secretary was 

 instructed to present them to the section and the 

 congress as a supplemental report. From a par- 

 liamentary point of view, they are accepted by the 

 commission as addition to the subject discussed in 

 paragraph (102) of the report and as substitute 

 for several of the proposals that had been pre- 

 sented as amendments to the code. The subject 

 matter was first presented to the commission dur- 

 ing its Gratz meeting, and since that time has been 

 under more or less consideration. It was discussed 

 during the Monaco (1913) meeting of the con- 

 gress, but the form of the proposition was not 

 agreed upon until immediately prior to its presen- 

 tation at the joint session of the commission and 

 of the Section on Nomenclature. — C W. S.] 



(112) The commission unanimously recommends 

 to the congress the adoption of the following 

 resolutions : 



(113) Hesolved, That plenary power is herewith 

 conferred upon the International Commission on 



Zoological Nomenclature, acting for this congress, 

 to suspend the Eagles as applied to any given case, 

 where in its judgment the strict application of the 

 Efegles will clearly result in greater confusion than 

 uniformity, provided, however, that not less than 

 one year's notice shall be given in any two or 

 more of the following publications, namely, Bulle- 

 tin de la Soc. zoologique de France, Monitore 

 zoologico. Nature, Science (New York) and 

 Zoologisohe Angeiger, that the question of pos- 

 sible suspension of the B6gles as applied to such 

 ease is under consideration, thereby making it 

 possible for zoologists, particularly specialists in 

 the group in question to present arguments for or 

 against the suspension under consideration; and 

 provided, also, that the vote in commission is 

 unanimously in favor of suspension; and provided 

 further that if the vote in commission is a two 

 thirds majority of the full commission, but not a 

 unanimous vote in favor of suspension, the com- 

 mission is hereby instructed to report the facts to 

 the next succeeding International Congress; and 



(114) Eesolved, That in the event that a case 

 reaches the congress, as heretofore described, with 

 a two thirds majority of the commission in favor 

 of suspension, but without unanimous report, it 

 shall be the duty of the president of the Section on 

 Nomenclature to select a special board of three 

 members, consisting of one member of the com- 

 mission who voted on each side of the question 

 and one ex -member of the commission who has not 

 expressed any public opinion on the case, and this 

 special board shall review the evidence presented 

 to it and its report, either majority or unanimous, 

 shall be final and without appeal, so far as the 

 congress is concerned; and 



(115) Besolved, That the foregoing authority 

 refers in the first instance and especially to cases 

 of the names of larval stages and the transference 

 of names from one genus or species to another; 

 and 



(116) Eesolved, That the congress fully ap- 

 proves the plan that has been inaugurated by the 

 commission of conferring with special committees 

 from the special group involved in any given case, 

 and that it authorizes and instructs the commission 

 to continue and extend this policy. 



ACTION OP THE SECTION ON NOMENCLATURE AND OP 

 THE CONGRESS ON THE FOREGOING REPORTS 



At the Saturday morning session of the Section 

 on Nomenclature the chairman gave the floor to 

 the secretary of the Commission on Nomenclature. 

 The secretary invited attention to the fact that the 



