xiV International Code of Nomenclature 



Foreword 



R. S. Breed and R. St. John-Brooks as Permanent Secretaries of the 

 International Committee also became ex officio members and Perma- 

 nent Secretaries of the Commission. 



The records of the Congress showed a membership of 62 on the 

 International Committee on Bacteriological Nomenclature as of 

 August 1939. There were representatives of Microbiological Societies 

 of 24 nations as follows: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bul- 

 garia, Canada, Denmark, Deutsches Reich, Eire, France, Great Britain, 

 Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Roumania, Spain, 

 Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America, Union of Soa iet 

 Socialist Republics, and Uruguay. 



It was expected that the mandate of the Congress to the Judicial 

 Commission to develop and publish a tentative proposal for a Code 

 of Bacteriological Nomenclature would be followed promptly. The 

 final determination of the constitution of the Judicial Commission 

 itself was long delayed because of the outbreak of World War II 

 while the New York Congress was in session. It soon proved im- 

 practicable to circulate copies of the nomenclatural proposals and 

 to secure comments from all members of the Commission. 



Dr. Ralph St. John-Brooks of the Lister Institute, London, one 

 of the Permanent Secretaries of the International Committee in 

 March 1942, spent some days with the Chairman of the Commission 

 in conference and in editing the manuscript which had been re- 

 viewed by the Committee at the New York City meeting. 



THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL CONGRESS 

 (Copenhagen, 1947) 



The Proposed Bacteriological Code of Nomenclature as author- 

 ized by the Third International Congress for Microbiology was 

 printed in June 1947 in a limited edition for distribution and for 

 use by the Judicial Commission and the International Committee at 

 the Fourth International Congress in September 1947. 



At the Copenhagen Meeting the proposed Code was considered, 

 revised, and approved for publication by the Judicial Commission, 

 the International Committee and the Plenary Session of the Con- 

 gress. The English text was published in March 1948 in the Journal 

 of Bacteriology, later (Sept. 1949) in the Journal of General Micro- 

 biology. A Spanish translation (1949) by Prof. Verna was published in 

 Argentina in De Archives de Farmacia y Bioquimica del Tucuman and 

 a German translation by Dr. med. Hubert Bloch (1950) in the 

 Schweizerische Zeitschrift fiir allgemeine Pathologie und Bakteri- 

 ologie. A French translation by Dr. Pre\ot and a Japanese translation 

 were also issued. 



