4 CODE OF NOMENCLATURE. 



their starting-point the first edition of the ' Genera Plantarum ' 

 of Linnaeus, published in 1737; others, his promulgation of 

 rules in the ' Philosophia Botanica,' 1751; others, again, his 

 'Species Plantarum,' 1753. But, furthermore, as some zoolo- 

 gists used the system methodically in works published prior to 

 I758, 1 and as generic names were employed in a strict sense by 

 some writers of eminence in zoology as early as 1732,2 the law 

 of priority is restricted in time by neither one of two important 

 codes recently promulgated, that of the Societe Zoologique de 

 France, i88i, 3 and that of the Congres Geologique International, 

 i882; 4 the only provisions for the inception of its operation 

 being, that a given name, to be available, shall have been prop- 

 erly published and clearly defined, conformably with the rules 

 of binomial nomenclature. 



The Stricklandian Code was nevertheless taken by the 

 International Geological Congress as its point of departure and 

 basis of procedure in the formulation of the Rules it adopted. 

 This code first promulgated by the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, at Manchester, in 1842, later 

 adopted by the American Association of similar name and 

 character, and reaffirmed and again adopted with little modi- 

 fication by the British Association, at Bath, in 1865 5 has 

 until recently been the principal code of zoological nomen- 

 clature ; it is still recognized as the highest authority by 

 most English-speaking zoologists, and is followed with more 

 or less reservation and evasion by naturalists at large. In 

 most respects excepting the rule which fixed the date of the 



1 As Artedi, Scopoli, Pallas, Clerck, etc. 



2 E. g. Breyn ; to which may perhaps be added Link, 1722, Klein, 1731 and 1734, 

 Linnaeus, 1735, and Tournefort, 1742. 



8 Societe Zoologique | de France | | De la | Nomenclature | des | etres orga- 

 nises | 1 Paris | Au Sieges de la Societe | 7, rue des Grands- A ugustins, 7 | j 

 1 88 1. Paper, 8vo, pp. 37. 



4 Regies a suivre pour etablir la nomenclature des especes. Rapport du Secre- 

 taire de la Commission H. Douville. < Congres Geologique International. Compte 

 rendu de la 2 me Session, Bologne, 1881, (pub. 1882,) pp. 592-608. 



5 See Notes on the modified Rules for Zoological Nomenclature, B. A., 1865, by 

 A. E. Verrill, in Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 2d Series, Vol. XLVIIL, July, 1869, pp. 

 92-110. 



