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and will submit them in its report to the International Congress, which 

 will then decide the questions with full knowledge. 



In consequence of the scattering of its members, the Permanent 

 International Commission is officially represented by its Executive 

 Committee, to which all communications should be addressed. It 

 cannot study the questions with full utility unless they are submitted 

 to it at least a year before the Trienaial Congress. 



The Permanent Commission is at the present moment occupied 

 with very important questions which will only come up for discussion 

 at the Seventh Congress at Boston in 1907. In order to render this 

 discussion more fruitful it has been decided to publish these questions 

 as soon as po.ssible, in order that all zoologists interested in them 

 may have time for their consideration. There will no doubt be many 

 of these, and it is likely that in many cases the required solution will 

 be suggested by some naturahst who is not a member of the 

 Commission. 



In thus making appeal to the enlightened consensus of all zoologists, 

 in holding at the time of each Congress open sittings where all will be 

 able to take part in the discussions, the Permanent International 

 Commission believes that it is doing a most useful piece of work, and 

 will thus establish an agreement which each day will render more 

 complete on one of the most delicate and one of the most fundamental 

 questions of zoology. Raphael Blanchard, 



President of the Pennanent International 

 Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. 

 Berne, August, 1^04. 



[Questions for the consideration of the Commission may be 

 addressed to Dr. F. C. von Maehrenthal, Zoologisches 

 Institut, Berlin. 



It is proposed to publish the Rules and Recommendations 

 in the next number of the Journal. — W.E.H.]. 



