CODE OF NOMENCLATURE. 



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It nas therefore seemed to your Committee advisable to take 

 the original Stricklandian Code as the initial point of departure ; 

 to reaffirm and reproduce as many of its rules as may be de- 

 sirable, without reference to the changes made in it in 1865, — 

 changes which, witn one exception, do not appear to your 

 Committee to be available for adoption, although, for the sake 

 of historical completeness, they may be dulv noted in their 



held in London, February ii, 1S42, consisted ot Mr. C. Darwin, Professor Henslow, 

 Rev. L. Jenyns, Mr. W. Ogilby, Mr. J. Phillips, Dr. Richardson, Mr. J. O. West- 

 wood, and Mr. H. E. Strickland (reporter) ; to whom were afterward added, W. J. 

 Broderip, Professor Owen, W. E. Shuckard, G. R. Waterhouse, and W. Yarrell. 

 The result of their labors appeared in a ' Series of Propositions for rendering the 

 Nomenclature of Zoology uniform and permanent,' first printed in th« Report of 

 the Twelfth Meeting of the British Association, held at Manchester, June, 1S42, p. 106 

 etssq. They also appeared in the ' Annals of Natural History,' and in the ' Philo- 

 sophical Magazine.' C. L, Bonaparte submitted an Italian translation to the Scien- 

 tific Congress held at Padua in 1843. A French translation also appeared in ' L'ln- 

 stitut' (lie Ann., No 498, pp. 248-251, 13 Juil, 1843), and a review by Dr. A. A. 

 Gould of the 'Propositions' was printed in the * American Journal of Science and 

 Arts '(Vol. XLV., 1843, pp. 1-12). 



At the B. x\. meeting at O.xford in i860, it was "resolved, that the surviving 

 members of the Committee appointed in 1842 — viz., Mr. C. Darwin, Rev. Professor 

 Henslow, Rev. L. Jenyns, Mr. W. Ogilby, Professor Phillips, Sir John Richardson, 

 Mr. J. O. Westnood, Professor Owen, Mr. W. E. Shuckard, and Mr. G. R. Water- 

 house .... be reappointed, with Sir Wm. Jardine, Bart., and Mr. P. L. Sclater." 

 At the B. A. meeting at Newcastle, 1863, the Committee was reformed again, to 

 consist of Sir Wm. Jardine, A. R. Wallace, J. E. Gray, C. C. Babington, Dr. Fran- 

 cis, P. L. Sclater, C. Spence Bate, P. P. Carpenter, Dr. J. D. Hooker, Professor 

 Balfour, H. T. Stainton, J. Gwyn Jeffries, Prof. A. Newton, Prof. T. H. Huxley, 

 Professor Allman, and G. Bentham, with power to add to its members. For the 

 purpose of eliciting suggestions and recommendations, this Committee reprinted the 

 original ' Series of Propositions,' etc., in a pamphlet entitled as follows: — 



Rules I for | Zoological Nomenclature | by the late | Hugh E. Strickland, 

 M. A., F. R. S. I Authorized by Section D of the | British Association | at 

 Manchester, 1842. | — | Reprinted by Requisition of Section D at Newcastle, | 

 1863. I — I Edinburgh: | Printed by Neill and Company. | MDCCCLXIIL Svo, 

 pp. 25. 



This is the original of the ' Stricklandian Code,' 1842, known also as the ' Rules 

 of the British Association.' Upon this the Bath Committee, in 1865, engrafted its 

 emendations, with the result of what is known as the ' Revised B. A. Rules,' entitled 

 as follows: " Report of a Committee appointed to report on the Changes which they 

 may consider desirable to make, if any, in the Rules of Zoological Nomenclature 

 drawn up by Mr. H. E. Strickland, at the Instance of the British Association at their 

 Meeting in Manchester in 1842." (Rep. 35th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., held 

 at Birmingham in Sept., 1865, (pub. 1866,) pp. 25-42.) 



