Rules of Zoological Nomenclature

Abstract

DURING the thirteenth International Congress of Zoology, which closed in Paris on July 27, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, holding its first meeting since the close of the Second World War, put forward a comprehensive programme for the reform and development of zoological nomenclature. All the thirteen meetings held by the Commission were open to all the members of the Congress, who were thus enabled to take an active part in the discussion of the proposals put forward by the Commission. As a result it was possible not only to obtain decisions on a much larger number of questions than would otherwise have been practicable, but also to ascertain much more readily the needs and general wishes of zoologists. The scheme finally adopted was approved unanimously by the Section on Nomenclature and, on the recommendation of the Section, by the Congress itself at its final plenary session.