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VOLUME 13. Part 6 28thJum 1957 pp. 169—200, 1 pi. 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: Notices prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology : Page Date of commencement by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature by voting on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature .. .. .. 169 Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers in certain cases .. 169 {continued on 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 Publication Office, 41, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7 1957 Price One Pound, Two 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 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 Natuurlijlce Historic, 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. Henning Lemche (Universiteteis Zoologislce Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark) (27th July 1948) Professor Teiso Esaki (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) (17th April 1950) 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-Inslitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M., Germany) (5th July 1950) Professor Dr. Erich Martin Hering (Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universitat 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 Bela Hanko (Mezogazdasagi Museum, 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 Historie, 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 (Narodni Museum v Praze, Prague, Czechoslovakia) (30th October 1954) Professor Dr. William Kuhnelt (Zoologisches Institut der Universitat, Vienna, Austria) (6th November 1954) Professor F. S. Bodenheimer (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. Doric ", Genova, Italy) (16th December 1954) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Volume 13, Part 6 (pp. 169—200, 1 pi.) 28th June 1957 NOTICES PRESCRIBED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ZOOLOGY The following notices are given in pursuance of decisions taken, on the recommendation of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (see 1950, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 4 : 51—56, 57—59), by the Thirteenth International Congress of Zoology, Paris, July 1948 (see 1950, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 5 : 5—13, 131). (a) Date of commencement by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of Voting on applications published in the " Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature " Notice is hereby given that normally the International Commission will start to vote upon applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature on the expiry of a period of six calendar months from the date of publication in the Bulletin of the applications in question. Any specialist who may desire to comment upon any of the applications published in the present Part (Vol. 13, Part 6) of the Bulletin is accordingly invited to do so in writing, and in duplicate, to the Secretary to the Commission, as quickly as possible and in any case, in sufficient time to enable the communication in question to reach the Secretariat of the Commission before the expiry of the six-month period referred to above. (b) Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers in certain cases Notice is hereby given that the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers is involved in aplications published in the present Part of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature in relation to the following cases :— (1) musicus Linnaeus, 1758 (Turdus), suppression of; iliacus Linnaeus, 1758 (Turdus), validation of neotype for (Class Aves) (Z.N.(S.) 1135); (2) Oeobia Hiibner, [1825], and its emendation Oebia, suppression of (Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera) (Z.N.(S.) 1149); Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries 170 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Notices prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology (continued) (3) Indiana Matthew, 1902, designation of type species for, in harmony with accustomed usage (Class Crustacea, Order Ostracoda) (Z.N.(S.) 1159); (4) globigerinidae Carpenter, Parker & Jones, 1862, to be given pre¬ cedence over orbtjlinidae Schultze, 1854 (Class Rhizopoda, Order Foraminifera) (Z.N.(S.) 1196). 2. Attention is also drawn to the proposed adoption of a Declaration clarifying and extending the provisions of the " Code of Ethics " (Z.N.(S.) 763). 3. Comments received in sufficient time will be published in the Bulletin : other comments, provided that they are received within the prescribed period of six calendar months from the date of publication of the present Part will be laid before the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature at the time of commencement of voting on the application concerned. 4. In accordance with the procedure agreed upon at the Session held by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in Paris in 1948 (see 1950, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 4 : 56), corresponding Notices have been sent to the serial publications Nature and Science. FRANCIS HEMMING Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 28 Park Village East, Regent's Park, London, N.W.I, England. 28th June 1957. Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 171 PROPOSED ADOPTION OP A "DECLARATION" CLARIFYING AND EXTENDING THE PROVISIONS OF THE "CODE OF ETHICS " By FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. (,Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) (Commission Reference : Z.N.(S.) 763) The purpose of the present paper is to place before the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature certain considerations relating to the wording and scope of the " Code of Ethics " and to suggest the adoption of a Declaration clarifying and in one respect extending the provisions of that Code. I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 2. Before setting out the points on which it is suggested that further action is necessary, it may be convenient briefly to recall the origin and purpose of the " Code of Ethics " and its subsequent history. The precise circumstances which led up to the adoption of the Code are not known and cannot now be ascertained, for the papers relating to this matter were included among that portion of the records of the Commission which owing to storage difficulties were destroyed in 1931. All that is known is that at its Session held at Monaco in 1913 the International Commission adopted a Resolution in which the " Code of Ethics " was propounded. The Commission's Resolution on this subject was embodied in its Report to, and was approved by, the Ninth International Congress of Zoology. Thereafter the " Code of Ethics " was published with all editions of the Ragles, although it was not formally a part of those Regies. When in 1943 the " Declarations " Series was inaugurated, the " Code of Ethics " was embodied in Declaration 1 (1943, Ops. Decls. int. Comm. zool. Nomencl. 1(A) : 1—6). 3. In 1935 the Commission received from Professor Dr. Eduard Handschin, then President of the Schweizerische entomologische