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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 
This report does not form a proposition to be acted on by the 
Section, or by the Association in a final manner at the present 
time. It is merely an attempt at a complete presentation of the 
subject, without which no well advised action by naturalists as a 
body can be expected or is to be desired. So far as is known to 
the Reporter, no such compilation has hitherto been attempted in 
modern times. 
Many of the difficulties with which authors are confronted, are 
the result of efforts by specialists to remedy confusion in their 
particular departments without reflection on the general bearing 
of the usages which they have attempted to introduce. 
When free discussion, assisted by the light which this report 
may tend to throw upon nomenclature, shall have tested the opin- 
ions expressed and the reforms which have here and elsewhere 
been suggested, a fit time will have arrived to consider a more 
concise and definitive code of rules and the subject of their recom- 
mendation by the Section. For the present this Report with its 
appendices is respectfully submitted. 
Wm. H. Dale, 
Committee. 
