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circulation. The rules thus laid down were very generally adopted 
by zoologists, both in this country and abroad; but having been 
only printed in the volumes of the British Association, ‘‘ Annals 
of Natural History,” and ‘‘ Philosophical Magazine,”’* or depend- 
ing on private circulation only, it was deemed advisable that 
greater publicity should be given to them, and at the meeting at 
Oxford in 1860 it was resolved, that ‘‘The surviving members 
of the committee appointed in 1842—viz., Mr C. Darwin, Rev. 
Professor Henslow, Rev. L. Jenyns, Mr W. Ogilby, Professor 
Phillips, Sir John Richardson, Mr J. O. Westwood, Professor 
Owen, Mr W. E. Shuckard, and Mr G. Waterhouse—for the pur- 
pose of preparing rules for the establishment of a uniform zoolo- 
gical nomenclature, be re-appointed, with Sir W. Jardine, Bart., 
and Mr P. L. Sclater. That Sir W. Jardine be the Secretary, and 
that the sum of L.10 be placed at their disposal for the purpose 
of revising and reprinting the rules.” t 
From the difficulty of bringing such a committee together, 
nothing was done since the time of its appointment ; but the reso- 
lution and the grant of money were again renewed at the late meet- 
ing in Newcastle, as follows :—“ That Sir W. Jardine, A. R. 
Wallace, J. E. Gray, C. C. Babington, Dr Francis, P. L. Sclater, 
C. Spence Bate, P. P. Carpenter, Dr J. D. Hooker, Professor 
Balfour, H. T. Stainton, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, A. Newton, Professor 
T. H. Huxley, Professor Allman, and Mr Bentham, be a com- 
mittee, with power to add to their number, to report on the 
changes which they may consider it desirable to make, if any, in 
the rules of nomenclature drawn up at the instance of the Asso- 
ciation by Mr Strickland and others, with power to reprint these 
rules, and to correspond with foreign naturalists and others on 
the best means of insuring their general adoption.—L.15.” 
Accordingly the rules, as originally circulated, are now re- 
printed, and zoologists are requested to examine them carefully, 
and to communicate any suggestions for alteration or improve- 
ment, on or before 1st June 1864, to Sir Wilkam Jardine, Bart., 
Jardine Hall, by Lockerby, N.B., who will consult with the mem- 
bers of the committee, and report upon the subject at the next 
meeting of the British Association appointed to be held at Bath. 
Jardine Hall, 8th Sept. 1863. 
* At the Scientific Congress held in 1843 at Padua, the late Prince C. L. 
Buonaparte submitted to the meeting an Italian translation of the ‘ British 
Association’s Code of Rules,” which was generally approved of. A French 
translation of the report appeared in the scientific journal ‘“ L’Institut,” in 
which paper much stress was laid on the importance of the measure, A 
review of it was also printed in the ‘“‘ American Journal of Science.” 
Tt Reports of the British Association held at Oxford, 1860, p. xlvi. 
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