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The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Vol 14, Intro VOLUME 14. Introductory Part 21th June, 1958 pp. i—xxviii THE BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE The Official Organ of THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Edited by FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature CONTENTS Official Text of the " Regies Internationales de la Nomenclature Zoologique " as it existed up to the opening of the Paris Congress in 1948 LONDON: Printed by Order ot 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, 41, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7 1958 Price Seventeen Shillings and Sixpence (All rights reserved) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE A. The Officers of the Commission Honorary Life President: Dr. Karl Jordan (British Museum (Natural History), Zoological Museum, Tring, Herts, England) President-. Professor James Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Vice-President: Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (12th August 1953) Secretary : Mr. Francis Hemming (London, England) (27th July 1948) 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) Professor H. Boschma (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (1st January 1947) Senor Dr. Angel Cabrera [La Plata, Argentina) (27th July 1948) Mr. Francis Hemming (London, England) (27th July 1948) (Secretary) Dr. Kenning Lemche (17niversitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark) (27th July 1948) Professor Pierre Bonnet (Universite de Toulouse, France) (9th June 1950) Mr. Norman Denbigh Riley (British Museum (Natural History), London) (9th June 1950) Professor Dr. Tadeusz Jaczewski (Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; Poland) (15th June 1950) Professor Dr. Robert Mertens (Natur Museum u. Forschungs-lnstilut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M., Germany) (5th July 1950) Professor Dr. Erich Martin Hering (Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt- Universitdt zu Berlin, Germany) (5th July 1950) Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (S. Paulo, Brazil) (12th August 1953) (Vice-President) Professor J. R. Dymond (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) (12th August 1953) Professor J. Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) (President) Professor Harold E. Vokes (University of Tulane, Department of Geology, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Professor B61a Hank6 (Mezogazdasdgi Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary) (12th August 1953) Dr. Norman R. Stoll (Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Mr. P. C. Sylvester-Bradley (Sheffield University, Sheffield, England) (12th August 1953) Dr. L. B. Holthuis (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histqrie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (12th August 1953) Dr. K. H. L. Key (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia) (15th October 1954) Dr. Alden H. Miller (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.) (29th October 1954) Doc. Dr. Ferdinand Prantl (Ndrodni Museum v Praze, Prague, Czechoslovakia) (30th October 1954) Professor Dr. William Ktthnelt (Zoologisches Institut der Universitdt, Vienna, Austria) (6th November 1954) Professor F. S. Bodenttbtmer (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) (11th November 1954) Professor Ernst Mayr (Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massa¬ chusetts, U.S.A.) (4th December 1954) Professor Enrico Tortonese (Museo di Storia Naturale " G. Doria", Genova, Italy) (16th December 1954) Dr. Per Brinck (Lunds Universitets, Zoologiska Institution, Lund, Sweden) (19th May 1958) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Volume 14, Introductory Part (pp.i-xxviii) 27th June 1958 OFFICIAL TEXT OF THE " REGIES INTERNATIONALES DE LA NOMENCLATURE ZOOLOGIQUE" (INTERNATIONAL CODE OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE) AS IT EXISTED UP TO THE OPENING OF THE PARIS CONGRESS IN 1948 By FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. Managing Director and Secretary to the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature At its coming meeting the Colloquium on Zoological Nomenclature will be called upon to examine the Draft of the English Text of the R&gles as revised by the Paris (1948) and Copenhagen (1953) Congresses prepared by Professor J. Chester Bradley which was published in 1957 in Parts 1 to 9 of the present volume (Volume 14) of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. The authority for that Draft is derived from three sources, namely : (a) the text of the Regies as adopted by the Berlin Congress of 1901 as slightly further amended up to 1930 (Padua Congress); (b) the amendments and additions adopted by the Paris Congress in 1948 ; (c) the further amendments and addi¬ tions approved by the Copenhagen Congress of 1953. 2. The Official Record of the amendments and additions to the Ragles adopted by the Paris Congress was published by the Trust in 1950 in Volume 4 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. The corresponding Official Record of the decisions taken by the Copenhagen Congress was published by the Trust in 1953 (Copenhagen Decisions zool. Nomencl.), Unfortunately, however, there exists no consolidated and up-to-date Official Record of the text of the Regies as these existed up to the eve of the Paris Congress of 1948. A text embodying the decisions taken by the Berlin Congress of 1901 was officially published in Paris in 1905. The text so promulgated was amended considerably by later Congresses, notably by the Boston Congress of 1907 ; the amendments so approved were officially published by the International Congresses concerned but no consolidated text of the Rigles as revised by successive Congresses was ever promulgated. A number of unofficial texts were published at different times, some of which attained a high degree of accuracy. Of these the best known are the text published by the Biological Society of Washington in 1926 and that included in successive editions of the work by Edward T. Schenk and John H. McMasters entitled Procedure in Taxonomy first published in 1936. Excellent as are these texts in many ways Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries ii Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature neither is absolutely complete or absolutely accurate. There exists therefore at the present time no published text of the Regies as they existed at the time of the opening of the Paris Congress which is both absolutely complete and absolutely accurate. 3. It appeared to the Trust that it would be a serious handicap to the forthcoming Colloquium in the discharge of its duties if it did not have at its disposal an authoritative edition of the Regies as these existed up to the time of the meeting of the Paris Congress of 1948, for that text must inevitably form the foundation of the Colloquium's work. The Trust has accordingly decided to publish the English text concerned in the present Introductory Part. Particulars are given in the Annexe to the present note of the amendments made in the original Berlin text by later International Congresses of Zoology up to, but not including, the meeting of the Thirteenth Congress held in Paris in 1948. 4. It will be recalled that in the period with which we are here concerned the French text was the sole substantive text, the English text being only an official translation of the substantive French text. It is not possible, however, to give here the substantive French text of the R&gles as amended to the time of the Paris Congress of 1948, because no provision was made by the successive Congresses for the maintenance of an amended substantive French text. The amendments to the Ragles made by the Congresses during the period under review are accordingly available in English texts only. FRANCIS HEMMING Managing Director and Secretary, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature 25th April 1958 Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature iii ANNEXE Particulars of amendments to the " Ragles Internationales de la Nomenclature Zoologique " made by International Congresses after the close of the Berlin (1901) Congress and before the opening of the Paris (1948) Congress Seven International Congresses of Zoology were held between the close of the Fifth International Congress at Berlin in 1901 and the opening in Paris in 1948 of the Thirteenth International Congress. No changes in the R&gles were made either by the Sixth International Congress at Berne in 1904 or by the Twelfth International Congress at Lisbon in 1935. Changes of varying importance were made at each of the five remaining Congresses held during the foregoing period. The Congresses concerned were the following :— (a) Seventh International Congress of Zoology, Boston, 1907 ; (b) Eighth International Congress of Zoology, Graz, 1910 ; (c) Ninth International Congress of Zoology, Monaco, 1913 ; (d) Tenth International Congress of Zoology, Budapest, 1927 ; (e) Eleventh International Congress of Zoology, Padua, 1930. The amendments to the Regies made by the foregoing Congresses are enumerated below, Article by Article. Article 4 The word " stem " was substituted for the difficult word " root
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