vi International Code of Nomenclature 



Foreword 



became evident that rules in Botany formulated primarily by those 

 interested in the taxonomy of flowering plants, ferns and mosses did 

 not fit too ^\cll the needs of the bacteriologist. 



THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL CONGRESS (1930) 



J'he desire that s]>ecial attention should Ix- paid to the 

 peculiar needs of bacteriology was voiced at the First International 

 Congress of Microbiology convened in Paris in 1980 by the Inter- 

 national Society for Microbiology under the auspices of the Pasteur 

 Institute. As the result of recommendations made by several of the 

 delegates to the Congress, a Commission on Nomenclature and 

 Taxonomy was constituted to prepare and report recommendations 

 to the Plenary Session of the Congress. 



The members of this commission were E. Pribram, Chicago, 

 U.S.A., Chairman: A. R. Prevot, Paris, France, Secretary: R. E. 

 Buchanan, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.; K. Kisskalt, Germany; J. C. G. 

 Ledingham, London, England; Reiner Miiller, Koln, Germany; R. 

 St. John-Brooks, London, England, and I. Yamasaki, Fukuoka, Ky- 

 ushu, Japan. 



Several resolutions prepared by the Commission were approved 

 unanimously by the Plenary Session. These resolutions (in their 

 English text) were as follows: 



/. The founding of the International Society for Microbiology and 

 the establishment of Congresses of Microbiology make possible 

 for the first time adecpiate international cooperation relative to 

 certain problems of microbial nomenclature. It is clearly recog- 

 nized that the living forms with which the microbiologists con- 

 cern themselves are in part plants, in part animals, and in part 

 primitive. It is further recognized that insofar as they may be 

 applicable and appropriate the nomenclatural codes agreed upon 

 by international Congresses of Botany and Zoology should be 

 followed in the naming of microorganisms. Bearing in mind 

 however the peculiarly independent course of development that 

 Bacteriology has taken in the past fifty years and elaboration of 

 special descriptive criteria which bacteriologists have of necessity 

 developed, it is the opinion of the International Society for Micro- 

 biology that the bacteria constitute a group for which special 

 arrangements are necessary. Therefore, the International Society 

 for Microbiology has decided to consider the subject of Bacterial 

 Nomenclature as part of its permanent programme. 



//. The International Society for Microbiology is of the opinion that 

 the interests of bacterial nomenclature will best be served by 

 placing the subject in the hands of a single International Com- 



