454 MELVILL : THE PRINCIPLES OF NOMENCLATURE. 
Answer: No. 32 votes. 
WES 5 .ViOLes. 
(V.) Does the reading of a paper before a scientific body con- 
stitute a publication of the descriptions, or names of 
animals or plants contained therein ? 
Answer: No. 39 votes. 
Doubtful. 2 votes. 
Yes. "4. votes. 
(VI.) Is a name in the vernacular of the publishing author, or 
a vernacular rendering from a classical root unaccompanied 
by a Latin or Greek form of the name, entitled to a recog- 
nition, except in Bibliography ? 
Answer: No. 36 votes. 
Doubtful. 2 votes. 
WES AACIES: 
Four questions follow, VII., VIII., [X., X., mostly over- 
whelmingly negatived, asking whether generic terms founded 
without proper specification of characters, description, or 
diagnosis should be admitted or recognized, and whether names 
once given should be arbitrarily changed, on assumptive evidence 
only of some error in derivation or the like, by a subsequent 
author. 
(XI.) Should a generic name, otherwise properly constituted, 
but derived from the specific name of its typical species, 
or similar to that of one of the species included under it, 
be rejected on that account ? 
Answer: No. 40 votes. 
Doubtful. 4 votes. 
Wess an vote: 
(XII.) Shall a subsequent author be permitted in revising a 
composite genus (of which no type was specified when it 
was described) to name as its type a species not included 
by the original author of the genus ? 
J.C., viii., Oct., 1897. 
