NO. 5 OPINIONS 98 TO 104 13 



OPINION 101 

 NOMENCLATORIAL StATUS OF DaNILEWSKY, " CONTRIBUTION A 



l'etude de la microbiose malarique " IN Annales de l'Institut 

 Pasteur, 1891, Vol. 5, pages 758-782. 



SUMMARY. — The technical Latin designations used by Danilewsky, 1891, 

 Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, Vol. 5 (12), pp. 758-782, are not in harmony 

 with the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature and are therefore 

 not subject to citation or the Law of Priority on basis of said publication. 



Statement of case. — Ernest Hartman, School of Hygiene and 

 Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, lialtimore, has submitted 

 the following case for Opinion : 



In looking over the paper of Danilewsky, " Contriliution a l'etude de ki 

 microbiose malarique " in Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, 1891, Vol. 5, pages 

 758-782, I am unable to interpret his naming under the present rules of the 

 Commission. I refer this paper to the International Commission on Zoological 

 Nomenclature for an interpretation of the names therein or iov elimination as 

 a source of zoological names. 



Discussion. — The Contribution under consideration was published 

 at a time when there existed very divergent views regarding the mala- 

 rial parasites and many articles on this subject were written by per- 

 sons who were obviously not entirely at home in respect to the pre- 

 vailing conceptions of genera, species, and varieties, and who were 

 unfamiliar with the principles and practices of zoological nomencla- 

 ture. 



Some of these authors were obviously under the impression that 

 zoological nomenclature consisted in using i, 2, 3, or 4 Latin names 

 as designations of organisms, but they evidently did not use the words 

 in the sense of the system of nomenclature proposed l)y Linnaeus 

 and adopted by zoologists and botanists, l-'urthermore, sonie of the 

 zoologists who publi.shed on this subject either did not consider them- 

 selves governed by zoological rules or were unfamiliar with them. 

 The result is that the nomenclature of the parasites of malaria in man 

 and birds represents one of the most confusing chapters in the entire 

 history of zoological nomenclature. To straighten out the difficulties 

 authors familiar with the jirinciples and practices of zoological no- 

 menclature have obviously endeavored to interpret the rules as applied 

 to this field with the utmost consideration for their colleagues who 

 were less familiar with nomenclatorial customs. 



