35b* ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



may be established on a uniform and permanent basis ; tbe 

 report to be presented to the Zoological Section, and submitted 

 to its committee at the Manchester meeting."* 



This committee met at various times in London, and the 

 following gentlemen were added to it, and assisted in its 

 labours : W. J. Broderip, Professor Owen, W. E. Shuckard, 

 G. R. Waterhouse, and W. Yarrell. An outline of the pro- 

 posed code of rules was drawn up and circulated, and many 

 valuable suggestions were received from eminent zoologists at 

 home and abroad. The u plan" was further considered by the 

 committee during the meeting at Manchester, " and the 

 committee, having thus given their best endeavours to maturing 

 the plan, beg now to submit it to the approval of the British 

 Association under the title of — ' Series of Propositions for 

 rendering the Nomenclature of Zoology uniform and per- 

 manent.' "f 



The propositions were printed in the Reports of the British 

 Association, and a grant of money was voted to print copies for 

 circulation. The rules thus laid down were very generally 

 adopted by zoologists, both in this country and abroad ; but 

 having been only printed in the volumes of the British Associa- 

 tion, " Annals of Natural History," and " Philosophical Maga- 

 zine/^ or depending on private circulation only, it was deemed 

 advisable that greater publicity should be given to them, and 

 at the meeting at Oxford in 1860 it was resolved, that " The 

 surviving members of the committee appointed in 1842 — viz., 

 Mr. C. Darwin, Rev. Professor Henslow, Rev. L. Jeuyns, Mr. 

 W. Oo-ilby, Professor Phillips, Sir John Richardson, Mr. J. 0. 

 Westwood, Professor Owen, Mr. W. E. Shuckard, and Mr. G. 

 Waterhouse — for the purpose of preparing rules for the es- 

 tablishment of a uniform Zoological Nomenclature, be re- 

 appointed, with Sir W. Jardine, Bart., and Mr. P. L. Sclater. 

 That Sir W. Jardine be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 £10 be placed at their disposal for the purpose of revising and 

 reprinting the rules. "§ 



From the difficulty of bringing such a committee together, 

 nothing was done since the time of its appointment ; but the re- 

 solution and a grant of money were again renewed at the late 



* Report of Twelfth Meeting of British Association, held at Manchester, June 1842, 

 p. 105. 



f Eeport of Twelfth Meeting, 1842. p. 106. 



X At the Scientific Congress held in 1843 at Padua, the late Prince C. L. Buona- 

 parte submitted to the meeting an Italian translation of the "British Association's 

 Code of Rules," which was generally approved of. A French translation of the report 

 appeared in the scientific journal " L'Institut," in which paper much stress was laid 

 ou the importance of the measure. A review of it was also printed in the " American 

 Journal of Science." 



§ Reports of the British Association, held at Oxford, 1860, p. xlvi. 



