CONVERSION TABLE, IX IBC (1959)
Conversion table for proposals-to-amend-the-Code
submitted to the
IX IBC, the 1959, Montreal Congress.
Based on (by permission of
the IAPT):
[Frans A. Stafleu ?]
“IXth
International Botanical Congress, Montreal 1959:
Nomenclature Section” (in Taxon 8: 247-252. 1964).
But adjusted here and there according to the
proceedings presented
by J. Lanjouw and F.A. Stafleu (in Regnum Veg. 20. 1960).
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list of proposals
Abbreviation used:
SMdF = Société Mycologique de France.
General notes
In this overview a “no [mail vote]”
indicates that a proposal
received more than 75% no-votes in the mail vote
and was rejected.
At the time, this was not officially part of the procedures
adopted
by the Nomenclature Section,
but this information is included here,
for the sake of uniformity. At Montreal,
the procedure was that
proposals that had received more than 80% no-votes in the mail
vote were automatically rejected, but this applied only from
Art. 20 Prop. A onwards.
The official closing date for proposals was 1 September, 1958.
The President ruled that proposals which came in after December
1958 were out of order.
Many proposals were referred to the permanent Committee for that
particular group: the recommendations of these Committees were to
be reviewed by the Editorial Committee to ensure there would be no
effects on other groups.
Committees
Special Committees (to report to the next Congress) set up:
•
Special Committee on Neotypes.
To it were referred:
-
Prop. 155 by Bullock & Ross (Art. 7 Prop. H)
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Prop. 101 by Staplin (Art. 10 Prop. A).
Notes
•
Prop. 1 by Little (Art. 14 Prop. A-E,
which had received more
than 75% no-votes in the mail vote),
302,
303 by Dandy & Ross
(Art. 14bis Prop. A, Art. 15 Prop. B),
and a compromise proposal
(Lanjouw) (the
nomina specifica conservanda-proposals) were
rejected en bloc.
Instead a resolution was accepted, which was
later adopted as
Resolution 2 by the Congress.
•
Prop. 7 by St. John (Art. 46 Prop. A)
was
accepted as amended,
as suggested by the Rapporteur,
that this be a Recommendation,
with one author instead of three authors.
•
Prop. 12 by Buchheim (Art. 17 Prop. A) was
accepted as amended
(Tryon), the new provision to start:
“Names of orders published”.
•
Prop. 20 by Rickett (Art. 29 Prop. A) was
accepted as amended
(Stearn) so that “the printer”
be replaced by “the publisher or his
agent” and (Fosberg) so that
it becomes a Recommendation.
•
Prop. 46 by Rowley and
Prop. 252 by Dostál (Art. 67 Prop. B, C):
a suggestion (Faegri) was accepted to ask the
Editorial Committee
to define the word “monstrosity” and make a recommendation on
its use to the next Congress.
•
Prop. 48 by Rowley (Art. H.1 Prop. A)
was accepted as amended,
by
the Committee for Cultivated Plants (‘for Nomenclature of
Hybrids’),
the new provision to read:
“An exception
may be made for amphidiploids treated as species
which may bear a separate epithet without the multiplication (×)
sign, and are then subject to the same rules as species.”
•
Prop. 51 by Mansfeld (Art. 5 Prop. B)
was discussed together with
Prop. 179 by Dandy & Ross (Art. 20 Prop. C),
Prop. 311 by
Proskauer (Art. 68 Prop. A) and
a mimeographed document by
Bullock, Dandy, and Ross.
The Section rejected Prop. 51 and 311,
while Prop. 179 was withdrawn
in favour of a replacement proposal
(Fosberg) to add “Necker’s species naturales”
to the examples of
unitary designations of species under Art. 68(3).
This replacement
proposal was accepted.
•
Prop. 52 by Arnold (Art. PB.1 Prop. A)
was rejected. The
Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature recommended that
PB.1 be inserted as a Note following Art. 3.
The first paragraph
without modification;
the rest to be replaced by:
“An organ genus
is a genus assignable to a family. A form genus
is a genus unassignable to a family, but may be referable to a
higher taxon. Form genera are artificial in varying degree.”
•
Prop. 83 by Fuchs (Rec. 50A Prop. A,
which had received more
than 75% no votes in the mail vote)
was rejected but
the Example
was referred to the Editorial Committee.
•
Prop. 95 by Mamay (Art. 34 Prop. C)
was referred to the
Committee
for Algae and the
Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature. As
these did not agree, the Section rejected the proposal and instead
adopted a resolution:
“In view of
the conflict between the Committees for
Palaeobotany and Algae on the adoption of Art. 34, Prop. C,
the Section requests them jointly to consider the consequences
of its rejection and to report to the next Congress.
The Section
recommends that botanists should, in the interim, interpret
Art. 34 in the sense intended by the Paris Congress.”
•
Prop. 97 by Cross & al. (Art. 34 Prop. D)
was referred to the
Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature which recommended
rejection of the proposal, but did recommend the matter for further
consideration at a subsequent Congress. On the other hand, the
Committee for Algae did favour the requirement of a Latin
diagnosis for valid publication of fossil algae.
•
Prop. 103 by Ames & al. (Art. 58 Prop. A)
was referred to the
Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature which recommended
acceptance and which provided an alternative example:
Platycarya Sieb. and Zucc. (1843),
in place of
Sequoia Endl. (1847), and
Petrophiloides Bowerbank (1840),
in place of
Steinhauera Presl (1838).
•
Prop. 120c by Schulze & Buchheim (Art. 40 Prop. A): the
Committee for Cultivated Plants (‘for Nomenclature of Hybrids’)
recommended to
just delete Art. 40 instead.
•
Prop. 123 by Schulze & Buchheim (Art. 59 Prop. A)
was referred
to
the Committee for Fungi and Lichens which recommended:
a) After the word “Phycomycetes” the remainder of the first
sentence to be deleted and the following to be inserted:
“...
the correct name of all states is one typified by the
perfect state; but otherwise, a name refers only to the state
represented by its type. The legitimacy of a name or
epithet typified by the perfect state is not affected by the
earlier publication of any name or epithet typified by
another state of the same taxon.”
b)
The third sentence, “The type specimen ... stage”, to be
deleted.
c)
In the last sentence (par. 2), replace “of a perfect state” by
“of
the name of a perfect state”.
•
Prop. 131 by Schulze & Buchheim (Art. H.1 Prop. C)
was
accepted as amended, by
the Committee for Cultivated Plants
(‘for Nomenclature of Hybrids’), the provision to read:
“The formula
consists of the names or the specific epithets
of the two parents connected by the multiplication (×) sign.”
•
Prop. 132 by Schulze & Buchheim (Art. H.1 Prop. D):
was
accepted as amended, by
the Committee for Cultivated Plants
(‘for Nomenclature of Hybrids’), the Example to read:
“Salix ×
capreola =
Salix aurita ×
S. caprea or alternatively
Salix aurita ×
caprea.”
•
Prop. 138 by Schulze & Buchheim (App. III Prop. N):
the Paris
Congress had instructed the
permanent Committees to report on
the application of the principles of priority and typification to
names of taxa above the rank of family. The inventory presented
(Stafleu) showed that a great majority of the members of the
Committees was opposed to this. Prop. 138 was rejected. A
proposal from the floor (Smith) was accepted to delete “orders”
from Art. 14.
•
Prop. 143 by Schulze & Buchheim (Art. PB.5 Prop. A)
was
accepted as amended by the Committee for Palaeobotanical
Nomenclature, this provision to be inserted into Art. 60, to read:
“When diagnoses
are altered or circumscriptions changed in
taxa of fossil plants of specific or lower rank, the type ...”
•
Prop. 144 by Schulze & Buchheim (Rec. PB.6A Prop. C)
was
accepted as
amended by the Committee for Palaeobotanical
Nomenclature and
to be inserted as a new Recommendation
under Art. 41
(as
proposed by Cross):
“An author
describing a new genus of fossil plants should
indicate whether he regards it as an organ genus or a form
genus.”
•
Prop. 145 by Schulze & Buchheim (Art. 7 Prop. E)
and
Prop. 307
by Potonié (Art. 7 Prop. C):
the Committee for Palaeobotanical
Nomenclature recommended that Note 5 be reworded as:
“The
typification of genera based on plant megafossils and
plant microfossils (form and organ genera),
fungi imperfecti,
and any other analogous genera ...”
•
Prop. 150 by Holm (Art. 69 Prop. A)
was
accepted as amended,
by the Rapporteur’s suggestion,
the Note to read:
“Illegitimate epithets must not be ...”.
•
Prop. 151 by Bullock (Prin. III Prop. A) was
accepted as amended
by the proposer, the Principle to start:
“The nomenclature of”.
•
Prop. 155 by Bullock & Ross (Art. 7 Prop. H)
was rejected, but a
Special Committee on Neotypes was established.
•
Prop. 165 by Ross (Art. 20 Prop. B) was
accepted as amended (by
the proposer), replacing
“by specific names” by “by any specific
name”.
•
Prop. 186 by Ross (Rec. 34A Prop. A) was
accepted as amended
(Fosberg) to add “in addition to the diagnosis”. The proposer said
that the words “of living plants” should still be added.
•
Prop. 187 by Deighton (Art. 32 Prop. G) was
accepted on the
understanding that
the Editorial Committee would revise it in the
light of the suggestions made.
•
Prop. 189 by Bullock (Art. 33 Prop. A)
was rejected, but a proposal
(Lanjouw) was accepted that the Editorial Committee find a new
example.
•
Prop. 264 by Silva: half this proposal (Prin. I Prop. A)
was
accepted as amended (Faegri),
to include “names of” before
“taxonomic groups”.
The other half
(Art. 45 Prop. B) was referred to the General
Committee together with a motion
from the Committee for Algae,
replacing Prop. 280.
•
Prop. 268-270 by Silva (Prin. IV Prop. A-C)
were rejected (more
than 75% no-votes in the preliminary mail vote) but a proposal
(Fosberg) was accepted to indeed insert here the phrase from
Art. 11.1:
“with a given circumscription, position and rank”.
•
Prop. 273 by Silva (Art. 18 Prop. D) was
accepted as amended by
the Rapporteur’s suggestion to add
“unless conserved” to the
proposed Note.
•
Prop. 280 by Silva (Art. 64 Prop. B) was referred to the
Committee
for Algae which recommended rejection of the proposal and instead
proposed an addition to the last paragraph
(based on the last part of
Principle I):
“In all other cases,
the name of a plant must not be rejected
merely because it is the name of an animal.”
This was referred to the General Committee
together with the
second half of
Prop. 264 (Art. 45 Prop. B).
•
Prop. 321 by Hughes (Art. 13 - 321)
was recommended by the
Committee for Fungi and Lichens, but amended
to substitute
“Fungi Imperfecti” for “Hyphomycetes”.
•
[sn-14] by Cross ([Rec. PB.6C Note])
was rejected;
the Note
instead to be deleted.
Motions from the floor
•
A proposal (Ross) was referred to the Editorial Committee, to
have the second sentence of Art. 4 read:
“...
subordinate ranks
of the plant kingdom: Divisio, ...”.
•
A proposal (Reeder) was rejected, to add
“... or super (super)”
after “the prefix sub (sub)”
in part because it would allow
“superspecies”.
•
The Committee for Cultivated Plants (‘for Nomenclature of
Hybrids’) recommended to replace
“special categories resulting
from genetic analysis of taxa”
by
“hybrids
and some special
categories”.
•
A proposal (Ross) was rejected,
to replace “diagnosis” by
“description” in Art. 34.
However, a proposal (Rickett) was
accepted,
to ask the Editorial Committee to scrutinize the words
description, diagnosis, definition and make a recommendation
on their use to the next Congress.
•
The Committee for Algae recommended to replace the paragraph
in Art. 45 that was to be deleted per Prop. 264 (Art. 45 Prop. B)
by a new provision, placing to be left to the Editorial Committee:
“If at the time
of the transfer of a taxon to the plant kingdom,
its name has not been validly published in accordance with
this Code, the author giving it valid publication on or after
1 Jan. 196- must adopt its previous name and type, provided:
(1) this name is available in its previous position; and
(2) its use does not conflict with any provision of this Code.”
•
The Committee for Algae recommended to change the first
sentence of Art. 45 to read as follows:
“The date
of a name or of an epithet is that of its valid
publication in accordance with the provisions of this Code,
whether or not the taxon to which it applies was originally
assigned to the plant kingdom.”
•
It was noted (Smith) that in Art. 45 and footnote,
the zoological
term “valid” should be replaced by “available”.
This was referred
to the Editorial Committee.
•
A proposal from the floor (Ross) was accepted to insert in Div. III,
Provision 2, Para. 11, after
“rapporteur-général” the words
“of the previous Congress”
(to take care of a change of person
holding the office).
•
A proposal from the floor (McVaugh & Tryon) was
(as suggested
by Smith) referred to the next Congress, to modify
Div. III,
Provision 4(2):
“(2)
A final and binding vote at the Nomenclature Section of
the International Congress. Modification of the Code shall
require a majority consisting of at least 60 per cent of the
votes cast by the Section.”
•
A motion
(Committee for Cultivated Plants,
‘for Nomenclature
of Hybrids’), ‘Art. H.1 Prop. F’, was accepted,
a new Note 4 to
be added:
“Note 4.
The order of the names or epithets in the formula may
be either alphabetical (as in this code)
or with the name of the
female parent first when this is known.
The male (♂) and
female (♀) signs may be added if desired.
The method used
in any publication should be clearly stated.”
•
Stafleu explained that due to a error by him,
a proposal by Cross
on Appendix II had been omitted from the Synopsis.
He proposed
to authorize the Palaeobotanical Committee
also to consider this
proposal in its report.
This motion was accepted unanimously.
In its report, this Committee recommended,
in accord with this
proposal, to
transfer material from Appendix II to appropriate
points in the body of the Code,
and to otherwise delete the
Appendix.
•
As to Art. PB.2,
the Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature
recommended
that it be deleted.
•
As to Art. PB.4,
the Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature
rejected
the suggestions by Cross and recommended that it just
be deleted
(in accordance
with the proposal by Crambast).
•
On the recommendation of the Committee for Palaeobotanical
Nomenclature, a Note to be inserted under Art. 10:
“The whole specimen
used during the establishment of a taxon
of fossil plants should be considered the nomenclatural type.
If the specimen is cut into pieces
(sections of fossil wood,
pieces of coal ball plants, etc.),
all parts originally used in
establishing the diagnosis should be clearly marked.”
•
Art. PB.6:
the Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature
accepted
the proposal by Cross to
incorporate PB.6 as a Note
under Art. 41.
•
Rec. PB.6C:
the Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature
rejected
the suggestion by Cross and instead recommended
insertion following the Note under Art. 3, with the wording:
“Form genera
should not be used as types on which families
or taxa of higher rank are established.”
•
The Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature accepted the
suggestion by Cross to insert
Rec. PB.6D in Art. 58 as a new
Recommendation with addition of the words “of fossil plants”
after “in descriptions of organs”.
•
Rec. PB.6E:
the Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature
rejected the
suggestion by Cross.
•
The Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature recommended
to insert a Recommendation under Art. 57:
“Fossils
uniting diagnostic features of diverse taxa may be
assigned either to (1) one, thereby enlarging its circumscription,
or (2) may be proposed as a new taxon having the amplified
circumscription.”
•
The Committee for Palaeobotanical Nomenclature rejected an
unpublished proposal by British palaeobotanists, which would
have added a new Article:
“It is permissible to continue to use the name of a form genus
for all species considered as belonging to the same form genus
as its type species even if that species becomes referred also
to an organ genus or to a natural genus.”
Instead, it recommended to insert, following the proposed Note
under Art. 3:
“As in the case
of pleomorphic fungi (see Art. 59), these
provisions shall not be construed as preventing the use of
names of form genera in works referring to such taxa.”
•
The Paris Congress had instructed the
permanent Committees
to take a position on living specimens as nomenclatural types.
A proposal (Stafleu) was accepted to approve their reports and
to instruct the Editorial Committee to insert a provision that for
Spermatophyta, Pteridophyta, Bryophyta and Algae it was not
possible to have a living specimen as a type, but that for
Bacteria and Fungi the possibility should be left open.
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