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Mr. H. C. Strickland, Mr, J. O. Westwood, to draw up and 
report a code of rules “ by which the nomenclature of zoélogy 
may be established on a uniform and permanent basis.” To 
this committee were afterward added W. J. Broderip, Profes- 
sor Owen, W. E. Shuckard, G. R. Waterhouse and W. Yarrel. 
This committee in 1842 submitted to the Association a “ series 
of propositions,” which were adopted and printed in the Re- 
port for that year.* They were also published separately for 
private distribution. 
A committee was afterward appointed by the Association of 
American Geologists and Naturalists to consider this subject. 
The committee reported at the sixth meeting, 1845, in favor 
of adopting the British Association’s Rules, with slight mod- 
 ifications, the principal objection being to the writing of 
_- proper names of species without an initial capital, a change 
_ since introduced also by the British Association. The report 
4 neformatory influence of these rules, thus brought so promi- 
 nently to 
Birmingham meeting in 1865, a Report was submitted and 
adopted by the Association,} recommending the following :— 
I. That Botany should not be introduced into the Strick- 
land rules and recommendations. 
II. That the permanency of names and convenience of prac- 
tical application being the two chief requisites in any code of 
rules for scientific nomenclature, it is not advisable to disturb 
* Report of the twelfth meeting, 1842, p. 106—also reprinted in Annals of 
atural History; Philosophical Magazine; translated into French, in the Journal 
_of ‘ L’Institut’; and translated into Italian and approved by the Scientific Con-. 
gress a in 1843. See also reviews in this Journal, vol. xlv, p. 1, 1842; 
and 2d series, vol. iii, p. 302, 1847. 
se amended rules were printed in this Journal, 2d series, vol. ii, p. 423, 
846. 
$ Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Birming- 
ham, 1865, p. 28. 5 
