Just leave the name alone. It doesn't matter at all what the organization is called. Anybody stumbling across it will read some of the material and decide to join or not based on the quality of content, not the name. The immediately preceding messages are all about the extensive taxonomic changes continually demanded by the ongoing need to produce new PhDs. And the general tone of the chatter seemed to be that name changes are really quite unrewarding except to journal publishers. After The Big One happens to California, will we need to change the name to The North American And New Western Island That Was Formerly California West Of The San Andreas Fault Bulb Society (TNAANWITWFCWOTSAFBS)? Besides, some of our most informative and interesting contributors are from South America, Europe and that island group off western Europe. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA