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Baden-Baden/ and Dr. C. W. Stiles made a report to the Congress at 

 Cambridge on the work of this Conference. 



Dr. Sclater then proposed to enlarge the Permanent International 

 Commission by the nomination of ten new members, and to remit to 

 it all questions relating to zoological nomenclature and to request it 

 to present a definitive report to the Fifth International Congress. 



This motion was adopted ; the Congress at Cambridge proceeded 

 to the election of the new members, and the Permanent International 

 Commission was then composed of the following fifteen members : — ■ 

 Messrs. R. Blanchard (Paris), J. V. Carus (Leipzig), R. Collett 

 (Christiania), R. HoRST(Leyden), F. A. Jentink (Leyden), F. C. von 

 Maehrenthal (Berlin), H. Saunders (London), F. E. Schulze 

 (Berlin), P. L. Sclater (London), D. Sharp (Cambridge), E. Simon 

 (Paris), L. Stejneger (Washington), Ch. W. Stiles (Washington), 

 Th. Studer (Berne), and R. R. Wright (Toronto). 



Professor Blanchard was elected President of the Commission, 

 and Dr. C. W. Stiles, Secretary. 



The Fifth Congress met at Berlin in 1901, when a special section 

 of nomenclature was established, the proceedings of which will be 

 found in the report of that Congress.^ Dr. Stiles presented the report 

 on the work of the Permanent Commission, and it was decided not 

 to fill up immediately the places of Messrs. Saunders and Sclater who 

 had resigned. Amongst other matters, all modifications which the 

 Commission had adopted unanimously and which had been submitted 

 to the Congress at Cambridge without arousing opposition, were 

 adopted. Finally, a sub-committee composed of Messrs. Blanchard, 

 F. C. VON Maehrenthal, and C. W. Stiles was appointed, the 

 duties of which were as follows : — 



1. To codify the rules of nomenclature, separating the rules from 

 the recommendations. 



2. To draw up an official text in French, German, and English. 



3. To introduce any necessary editorial corrections without alter- 

 ing the meaning either of the rules or recommendations. 



The task thus laid down was a very delicate one ; it could not be 

 carried out by correspondence, and it was absolutely necessary that 



1 " Regies de la Nomenclature zoologique propos^es au Congres de Cambridge par la Com- 

 mission internationale, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 22, p. 173-185, 1897 ; also published 

 separately. 



" Report on Rules of Zoological Nomenclature to lie submitted to the Fourth International 

 Zoological Congress at Cambridge by the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature." 



" Hericht iiber Regeln der Zoologischen Nomenclatur dem Vierten internationalen Zoolo- 

 gischen Congresse in Cambridge vorzulegen von der Internationalen Nomenclatur-Comniission," 

 Zool. Anseigcr, vol. 21, p. 397-411, 1898 ; also published separately. 



2 " Verhandlungen des V. Internationalen Zoologen-Congresses zu Berlin, 1901," Jena, 1902 

 (c/. p. 87.J-890). 



