Dear Ross and all,

In the latest version of the Code is written: "Following the publication of the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae by Linnaeus in 1758, and his adoption in it of binominal names for species of animals, the next century saw the new system expanded and developed in different places, and in different ways for different animal groups. By the second quarter of the 19th century disparate usages were common and the need for an agreement to achieve universality in the scientific names of anbimals and a greater stability had become aparent everywhere. (..)" (pp. XX-XXI) In 1842 the so-called Strickandian Code was presented in England. It's official title was: "Series of Propositions for Rendering the Nomenclature of Zoology Uniform and Permanent". It was also published in France, Italy and the United States of America later in the 1840s. It was revised in succeeding years, and was the basis of yet another Code, formulated by Henri Douvillé in 1881. It that same year there was there was an international congress of geology in Paris, and later in Bologna (Italy), it became clear that there was need for formal agreement on rules applicable for fossil and extant animals. At the first Internationla Congress of Zoology in Paris, 1889, rules, in part, were adopted. At the third Congress (Leiden, the Netherlands, 1895) a commission was appointed to formulate a "Codex" to report tio the fourth Congress (Cambridge, England, 1898). This commission could be regarded as the first International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Of course there were many new versions of what was ultimately to be come the present Code.

Gijs

---------- > Van: Ross Mayhew <rmayhew@NS.SYMPATICO.CA> > Aan: CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Onderwerp: Thanks, guys! - and one more Early Malacology question. > Datum: vrijdag 16 juni 2000 3:43 > > Thanks Andrew and Gijs and Helmut and Lynn and Bob and Ted and Carol and > Alice - i knew i could count on you! > > One further question on early "modern" taxonomy: how long did it take > for the Linnean taxonomic system to become "firmly established"?? Did > this process take place at similar rates in different disciplines? When > was the process more-or-less complete for all life-forms (or at least > the taxonomists who describe and classify them!)? > > Getting summer at last up here - all the way up to 72 today, which is > great swimming weathe - if one could find the time!! (on the other hand, > my thermometer read 37 F two nights ago in the "wee hours"!), > Ross.