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The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, V18 Part01 Volume 18. Part 1 5th December, 1960 pp. 1-96, 1 pi. THE BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE The Official Organ of THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Contents Page Secretary's Note 1 Notices prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology : Date of commencement by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of voting on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature ... ... ... ... 2 Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its plenary powers in certain cases 2 (continued inside back wrapper) LONDON: Printed by Order of the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature and Sold on behalf of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature by the International Trust at its Publications Office, 19, Belgrave Square, London, S.W.I 1960 Price Three Pounds Five Shillings (All rights reserved) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE A. The Officers of the Commission President: Professor James Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) Vice-President: Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (12 August 1953) Secretary : Mr. N. D. Riley (British Museum (Natural History), London) (23 July 1958) Assistant Secretary: Dr. W. E. China (c/o British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Boad, London, S.WJ) B. The Members of the Commission (Arranged in order of precedence by reference to date of election or of most recent re-election, as prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology) Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (S. Paulo, Brazil) (12 August 1953) (Vice-President) Professor J. R. Dymond (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) (12 August 1953) Professor J. Chester Bbadley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) (President) Professor Harold E. Yokes (University of Tulane, Department of Geology, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) Dr. Norman R. Stoll (Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) Dr. L. B. Holthuis (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (12 August 1953) Dr. K. H. L. Key (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia) (15 October 1954) Dr. Alden H. Miller (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.) (29 October 1954) Doc. Dr. Ferdinand Prantl (Ndrodni Museum v Praze, Prague, Czechoslovakia) (30 October 1954) Professor Dr. Wilhelm Kuhnelt (Zoologisches Institut der Universitdt, Vienna, Austria) (6 November 1954) Professor Ernst Mayb (Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massa¬ chusetts, U.S.A.) (4 December 1954) Professor Enrico Tortonese (Museo di Storia Naturale " G. Doria Genova, Italy) (16 December 1954) Dr. Per. Brinck: (Bunds Universitets, Zoologiska Institution, Lund, Sweden) (19 May 1958) Dr. Max Poll (Musee Royal de V Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium) (12 July 1958) Professor H. Boschma (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (23 July 1958) Mr. Francis Hemming (London, England) (23 July 1958) Dr. Henning Lemche (Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark) (23 July 1958) Professor Pierre Bonnet (Universite de Toulouse, France) (23 July 1958) Mr. Norman Denbigh Riley (British Museum (Natural History), London) (23 July 1958) (Secretary) Professor Dr. Tadeusz Jaczewski (Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) (23 July 1958) Professor Dr. Robert Mertens (Natur-Museum u. Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a.M., Germany) (23 July 1958) Professor Dr. Erich Martin Hering (Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany) (23 July 1958) Dr. D. V. Obruchev (Palaeontological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow B-71, USSR) (5 November 1958) Professor Tohru Uchida (Department of Zoology, Hokkaido University, Japan) (24 March 1959) Professor Dr. Rafael Alvarado (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain) (31 May 1960) Dr. Gwilym Owen Evans (British Museum (Natural History), London) (31 May 1960) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Volume 18, Part 1 (pp. 1-96) 5th December 1960 Secretary's Note Dr. Angel Cabrera. News was received early in September that Dr. Cabrera, the distinguished Argentinian mammologist died at La Plata on July 7th, 1960. Dr. Cabrera was elected a Commissioner as long ago as 1930 and throughout his period of service, had unfailingly discharged his duties promptly and with the care and attention required of Commissioners. He was 81 at the time of his death. Vacancies on the Commission. It will be noted that recent losses by death have created several vacancies. The death of the Commission's Honorary Life President, Dr. Karl Jordan was followed by that of Professor Bodenheimer, Professor Bela Hanko and now Dr. Cabrera. Zoologists who attended the Fifteenth International Congress of Zoology in London in 1958 will know that, amongst other decisions taken by the Congress affecting the Commission, there was one to the effect that its by-laws should be overhauled. The Com¬ mittee entrusted -with this task has already submitted its draft of a revised constitution, but it has not yet been possible to overhaul the by-laws. In consequence, as a guide for the purpose of the submission of nominations of new commissioners, the procedure laid down in the existing (incomplete) by-laws is quoted below " Every application for the election of a member of the Commission to be the representative of the zoologists of a particular country not at that time represented on the Commission or, where the zoologists of a country are so represented, for the election of an additional representative or repre¬ sentatives, should be submitted to the Commission either by some leading scientific institution or learned society of that country or by a Government Agency of that country or through that country's diplomatic representative in the country in which the headquarters of the Commission are situated, and no application submitted otherwise than as specified above should be taken into consideration." Subsequent paragraphs of the by-laws enjoin that the Executive Committee shall scrutinise the nominations and, provided that the candidates put forward satisfy the necessary requirements, as, for example, that they have the necessary technical knowledge, experience, energy and other requisite qualifications, authorise the Executive Committee itself to proceed to an election. Nominations should be addressed to me, at the British Museum (Natural History), London, S.W.7. Illness of the President. I am very glad to report that Professor Chester Bradley has made a remarkable recovery and is again taking an active interest in the affairs of the Commission. I was able to discuss a number of matters with him in Vienna on the occasion of the Eleventh International Congress of Entomology held there in August. He expects to remain at Waldau in Switzerland until the Spring of 1961. N. D. BILEY, Honorary Secretary. Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries 2 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature NOTICES (a) Date of Commencement of Voting.—In normal circumstances the Commission starts to vote on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature six months after the publication of each application. Any zoologist who wishes to comment on any of the applications in the present part is invited to send his contribution, in duplicate, to the Secretariat of the Commission as quickly as possible, and in any case in time to reach the Secre¬ tariat before the close of the six-month period. (b) Possible use of the plenary powers.—The possible use by the Commission of its plenary powers is involved in the following applications published in the present part of the Bulletin :— (1) Suppression of 56 generic names published by Meigen, 1800 (Insecta, Diptera) (Z.N.(S.) 191); (2) Suppression of the generic name Saduria Adams, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda) (Z.N.(S.) 412); (3) Validation of the generic name Encrinus Lamarck, 1801 (Crinoidea) (Z.N.(S.) 434); (4) Validation of the generic name Myelophilus Eichhoff, 1878 (Insecta, Coleoptera) (Z.N.(S.) 467); (5) Suppression of the specific name couchii Kent, 1883 (Lepidogaster [sic]) (Pisces) (Z.N.(S.) 1330); (6) Designation of a type-species for Woehrmannia Boehm, 1895 (Gastro¬ poda) (Z.N.(S.) 1346); (7) Designation of a type-species for Euceraphis Walker, 1870 (Insecta, Hemiptera) (Z.N.(S.) 1363); (8) Suppression of the specific name atratus Gmelin, 1788 (CW«&er)(Reptilia) Z.N.(S.) 1371); (9) Validation of the generic name Perla Geofiroy, 1762 (Insecta, Plec- optera) (Z.N.(S.) 1451); (10) Validation of the generic name Gari Schumacher, 1817, so spelt (Bivalvia) (Z.N.(S.) 1461); (11) Suppression of eleven, and validation of thirteen, specific names in Classes Reptilia and Amphibia (Z.N.(S.) 1449). c/o British Museum (Natural History), W. E. CHINA Cromwell Road, Assistant Secretary London, S.W.7, England. International Commission on 5th August, 1960. Zoological Nomenclature Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 3 APPLICATION TO SUPPRESS UNDER THE PLENARY POWERS ELEVEN SPECIFIC NAMES OF AMPHIBIA AND REPTILIA AND TO VALIDATE THIRTEEN NAMES WITH THEIR ORIGINAL AUTHOR AND DATE. Z.N.(S.) 1449. By Robert Mertens
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