NO. I HISTORY OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE; — STEJNEGER 



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Baden August 5-7, 1897. The International [Paris-Moscow] Code 

 was made the basis for the revision which was to be presented to the 

 Congress at its coming meeting in Cambridge, England, in 1898. This 

 revision, containing 61 articles in the French language edited by 

 Blanchard (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1897, pp. 173-185), followed as 

 closely as possible the sequence of the original [Paris-Moscow] Inter- 

 national Code. Carus and Stiles were to present an official version in 

 German and English, respectively, with the understanding that the 

 French text was to be considered standard in case of doubt of inter- 

 pretation. However, in presenting their individual reports side by 

 side under one cover (Leipzig, Breitkopf and Hartel, 1898, 33 pp.) 

 they changed the sequence and divided the articles in two sections 

 under " A. Rules," and " B. Recommendations," the former again, 

 into 7 chapters, each subdivided into articles numbered from 

 Art. I up. 



The articles interesting us here are as follows : 



Blanchard 



Art. I 



La nomenclature adop- 

 tee pour les animaux est 

 binominale. 



Art. 33 



Le nom attribue a 

 chaque genre et a chaque 

 espece ne peut etre que 

 celui sous lequel ils ont 

 ete le plus anciennement 

 designes, a la condition : 

 2°. Que I'auteur ait effec- 

 tivement entendu appli- 

 quer les regies de la no- 

 menclature binaire. 



Stiles 



I. Art. I 



Zoological nomencla- 

 ture is binominal. 



VII. Art. I 



The name of a genus or 

 species can only be that 

 name under which it was 

 first designated, on the 

 condition : 



b. That the author has 

 properly applied the prin- 

 ciples of binominal no- 

 menclature. 



Carus 



I. Art. I 



Die zoologische Nomen- 

 clatur ist binominal. 



VII. Art. I 



Giiltiger Name einer 

 Gattung oder einer Art 

 kann nur der Name sein, 

 mit dem sie zuerst be- 

 zeichnet worden ist, unter 

 der Bedingung, dasz. 



b. der Autor den Grund- 

 satzen der binaren No- 

 menclatur folgte. 



Several points are to be noted here : 



1. Blanchard's version is identical with that of the French Zoologi- 

 cal Society and the International (Paris-Moscow) Code, leaving out, 

 however, the word " binaire" in Art. i, but retaining it in Art. 33. 



2. Carus' German version of Art. i changes the word bindr of the 

 code of the German Zoological Society to binomial, but retains it in 

 Art. 33. 



It seems evident that Blanchard's dropping of binaire from Art. i 

 and Carus' change of bindr in the same article to binomial was due 

 to a compromise, as the article is simply meant to establish the fact 



