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                    FLORAS AND FAUNAS THEME WORKSHOP

          ON INTERNATIONAL CODE OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE

                         SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT


    The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is proposing
a new edition of the Code which regulates the scientific names of all
animal taxa. A draft of the Code has been issued recently and the ICZN
is inviting comments from taxonomists and others worldwide. The proposed
new edition presents a thoroughly revised Code but in contrast to the
last edition contains some drastic and controversial changes and in
many cases leaves the individual to a "Do It Yourself" approach.
    As outlined in the first announcement a workshop will be organized
to discuss these proposed changes and to make suggestions. The meeting
will take place on FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH at 10.00 A.M. in the PALAEO DEMO
ROOM and will take the whole day.

In the light of the replies to the first announcement the following working
agenda is suggested:

10.00   Welcome [by R. Fortey - chair of the meeting]

10.05   Recording of new names in Zoological Record within 5 years of
        their publication as a requirement for availability

11.00   Language to be adopted for new diagnoses: linguistic freedom or
        criterion for availability?

11.30   Gender of generic names: possible abandonment

12.00   Lunch break: a glass of wine and some light refreshments will be
                     offered by the organizers

13.00   Stability vs Priority: conservation of junior synonyms and
        incorrect subsequent spellings

14.30   Typification: - acceptance of misidentified name-bearing
                        types
                      - status of neotype upon rediscovery of original
                        types
14.50 Formation of family-group names

15.00  Tea and coffee break

15.10  Adoption of lists of available and potentially valid names

15.30  Towards a possible "Unified" (botany, bacteriology, zoology)
       Code of Bionomenclature for future names?

16.00  Any other business

16.30  Closing of the meeting

For colleagues to whom the concept of a possible future Unified Code
of Bionomenclature is unknown, more information can be found in:

   Hawksworth et al. (1994). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature,
                             51(3): 188-216.
   Hawksworth (1995). Taxon, 44: 447-456.

Please circulate this message to colleagues who do not have access to E-
mail.

Looking forward to see you all on Friday 24 November.
Rony HUYS

Crustacea Research Group
Department of Zoology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, LONDON, SW7 5BD.

phone: ++44 (0) 171 938 9186
fax:   ++44 (0) 171 938 9158
internet: r.huys@nhm.ac.uk




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Norman MacLeod
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N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

Address: Dept. of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
         Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD

Office Phone: 0171-938-9006
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