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are grouped in the three classes specified by the Permanent Committee, 

 those receiving the highest number of votes being placed in the nine year 

 class, those receiving the next highest in the six year class, etc. Names in 

 the classes are arranged alphabetically. 



Elected for nine years. — (The term normally expires in 1948.) R. E. 

 Buchanan (U.S.A.), A. J. Kluyver (The Netherlands), E. G. D. Murray 

 (Canada), S. Orla Jensen (Denmark): Elected for six years. — (Term nor- 

 mally expires in 1945.) J. Howard Brown (U.S.A.), A.-R. Prevot (France), 

 J. Ramsbottom (Great Britain), Th. Thjotta (Norway); Elected for three 

 years. — (Term normally would have expired in 1942.) A. Lwoff (France), 

 R. Renaux (Belgium), A. Sordelli (Argentine), C. Stapp (Germany). 



This announcement was made (Sci., 97, 1943, 370) in the hope that some 

 plan for taking tentative action on questions of nomenclature could be 

 developed by those members of the Commission who could be reached 

 under war conditions. 



While no provision was made in 1939 for the contingencies that have 

 arisen, it is felt that those elected should serve until successors are elected. 

 Professor R. E. Buchanan has been asked to act as Chairman pro tern of 

 the Judicial Commission as there is no possibility of securing an election 

 under the rules as adopted. 



Tentative International Rules of Bacteriological Nomenclature were 

 presented to the Third International Congress of Microbiology by a U.S.A. - 

 Canadian Committee on Compilation of Proposals on Bacteriological Nom- 

 enclature. As it proved impossible to give adequate consideration to these 

 proposals during the Congress, the following recommendations of the Per- 

 manent Committee on Nomenclature were accepted: 



1. That a recognized Bacteriological Code be developed. 



2. That publication of such a proposed Code, when developed, be authorized with 



the proviso that it shall be regarded as wholly tentative, but in the hope that 

 it shall be widely tested so that it may be brought up for further considera- 

 tion and final disposition at the next Microbiological Congress which should 

 normally take place in 1942. 



Copies of this tentative Code have been issued in mimeographed form by 

 Prof. R. E. Buchanan, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A., Chairman 

 of the U.S.A. -Canadian Committee and may be obtained from him. 



