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VI. The recommendation, ““ Specific names to be written 
with a small initia The Committee propose that this re- 
commendation should be omitted. It is not of great impor- 
_ tance, and may be safely left to naturalists to deal with as 
_ they think fit. 
These are the chief alterations and modifications the Com- 
mittee have to suggest. Itis scarcely possible to make any 
code of rules for a subject so extensive as zodlogy either per- 
fect in itself or such as will meet the opinions of every one. 
t must be a matter of compromise, and as working by no 
rules is creating great confusion and an immense increase in 
_ synonymy, the Committee would ask this Section to approve 
_ their present report or finding, and to give their sanction to 
these Rules and Recommendations as now proposed to be 
modified. 
Signed on ie part of the members of Committee present 
at Birmingham* by Ww. Jarvine, Reporter. 
» On the preceding Report being read to Section D, upon 
Paestay: 19th September, the following motion was made and 
carried unanimously :— 
Moved by Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, seconded by Dr. Sclater,— 
That the Report now read be approved of and adopted by 
the Section, and that the Rules or propositions, as thereby al- 
tered and amended, be printed in the Reports of the British 
Association and ‘recommended for the general use of zoolo- 
gists. 
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PART I. 
RULES FOR RECTIFYING THE PRESENT ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 
_ [Limitation of the m to Systematic Nomenclature.|—In proposing a 
measure for the sctablioheneee of a perfanent and universal zodlogical no 
-menclature, it must be premised that we refer solely to the Latin Or aystematic 
language of zodlogy. We have nothing to do with vernacular appellations. 
One great cause of the neglect and corruption wich prevails in the scienti- 
fic scraciulghire ot pores has been the frequent and often exclusive use 
of vernacular names in lieu of the Latin binomial desi ee which form 
the only legitimate ranpoage of epstemati zoblogy. Letu ee endeavor 
* The members of Committee gris at Birm vilinaghading re A. R. wil, 
Babington, Dr. Francis, Dr. Sclater, C. Spence Bate, ?. P, Bec prea 
Professor Balfour, H. T "Stain ton, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, A. Newton, 
and Sir W. Jardine, Bart. (Reporter). 
