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General Consideration 3. 



GENERAL CONSIDERATION 3. Provisions (Chapter 4) for emendations of 

 rules, for special exceptions to rules, and for their interpretation in doubtful 

 cases have been made through the establishment of an International Com- 

 mittee on Bacteriological Nomenclature for the International Association of 

 Microbiological Societies and of its Judicial Commission. 



ANNOTATIONS 



General Consider atioyi 3. Chapter 4 (p. 123) includes Provisions 

 made for selection of a large committee with representation from all 

 countries having microbiological societies which desire representa- 

 tion. This International Conmiittee on Bacteriological Nomenclature 

 (or more briefly, the Nomenclature Committee) elects a Judicial 

 Commission of twelve, to which the two permanent secretaries of the 

 Committee are added, making a total membership of fourteen. Chap- 

 ter 4 assigns to the Nomenclature Committee and the Judicial Com- 

 mission many legislative, judicial and editorial functions. The 

 Nomenclature Committee was authorized and organized in 1930, the 

 Judicial Commission in 1939. 



The Nomenclature Committee has appointed several subcommit- 

 tees to consider the problems of certain taxonomic groups. 



Botanists, by action of International Botanical Congresses, have 

 developed a Nomenclature Section, several Nomenclature Committees 

 and an affiliated International Association for Plant Taxonomy and 

 Nomenclature. 



The zoologists have a corresponding but somewhat different series 

 of legislative and judicial agencies authorized by the several Inter- 

 national Zoological Congresses. 



See Chapter 4 and its Annotations for details. 



