The South Australian Naturalist. 
S7 
MALACOLOCICAL SECTION. 
In answer to repeated requests, Mr. Kimber has expressed 
his willingness to meet a number of members who are desirous of 
studying the shells and the life history of the animals that make 
them. Will members who are desirous of forming such a circle 
communicate with Mr. Kimber, at Joslin, ’phone Norwood 1114. 
AllSTRALIAN BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURIC 
At a meeting of the Botanical Section of the Australian Asso- 
ciation for the Advancenient of Science, held in Adelaide in August 
of last year, it was resolved to appoint a committee to draw up 
recommendations for stabilising the nomenclature of Australian 
plants, the recommendations to be submitted to the international 
Botanical Congress to be held at Itiiaca. N.Y., ILS.A. in lime, 
1926. I his is the first international congress convened since that 
which met at Brussels rn 1910. The Committee was composed of 
the following members: — 
New South Wales — Professor v\. Anstruther Lawson, D.Sc.. 
l)e[nirtment of Botany, University of Sydney; Dr. G. P. DarnelL 
Smith, Government Botanist; Air. Edwin Cheel, Curator New 
South Wales National Ilerbariiim; Air. j. H. Maiden, I.S.O., 
IvR.S.. IvL.S.. I.'ite CNvcernment Botanist, 
\hctoria — Professor A. J. Ewart, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., De- 
partment of Botany, University of Melbourne; Air. Wdlliam Laid- 
law, (iovernment Botanist; Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S., Curator \'ic- 
torian National Herbarium. 
Queensland — Professor It. J. Goddard, D.Sc., Department of 
Biology, University of Brisbane; Air. C. T. White, F.L.S., Govern- 
ment Botanist. 
South Australia— Professor 4. G. B. Osborn. D.Sc., Depart- 
ment ol Botany, X'niversity of Adelaide; Air. J. AL Black. Hon. 
Secy, ol Committee. 
\\ estern Australia — Air. W. M. Came, Government Botanist. 
1 asmania — Air. L. Rodway, C.AI.G., Government Botanist; 
Air. R. A. Black, Botanist of Agricultural Department. 
It was deterrnined. either unanimously or by a large majority, 
that the Ithaca Congress^ be asked to place on the list of nomxiia 
conservanda the following generic names: — Mvehleuheckia, 
Meisn., Denhamia^ Aleisn., Oreomyrrhis , End!., Leucopogon, R. 
.,An giant hvs , W endl., and Olearia, Aloench, and to place on 
the list of nomina rejicienda the names, Calacitnnn, Rafin., Karki- 
vrtron, Rafin., Sarcogoxivm, G. Don, Leucocarpinn, A. Rich., Caf- 
( nsia. Lag., Perojoa, Cav., Si/oxerus, Labill., and Shau'ia, Forst. et 
