The Secretary: Why should we do that when we have already a committee on nomenclature? What is the use of a special committee?
Mr. Potter: The special committee will report quicker.
The President: If it belongs to the committee on nomenclature to consider the matter it will be best to do it now, immediately. If the names are to be changed they ought not go another year, and if not to be changed it ought to be known. The chair will be glad to entertain a motion that the committee report tomorrow on it.
Mr. Potter: I make a motion that the matter be referred to the committee on nomenclature and that they be ordered to report tomorrow.
The President: Do I hear a second?
A Member: I second the motion.
C. A. Reed: I am the chairman of that committee and I could not report tomorrow so I will ask that if it is to be taken up by committee that a special committee be appointed.
The President: It is Mr. W. C. Reed who is the chairman of that committee, to which committee was added C. A. Reed and R. L. McCoy.
Professor Close: I would like to ask Mr. Reed if he is absolutely sure about the rule he has just quoted of the American Pomological Society, that a name cannot be changed. I don't remember that rule.
Mr. Reed: Mr. Taylor was the framer of that rule and in actual practice he has adhered to the first name used, and did at the time he was secretary of that society.