Overview of editions of the Code

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• a brief history of the Code
• disclaimer
• list of editions of the Code
 

    Congress   year,  edition
    1867, Paris   1867,  Lois
–       1883,  Lois ed. 2
    II IBC  Avant-propos  - 1906,  Vienna Rules - Concordance
    III IBC  Avant-propos  - 1912,  Brussels Rules - Supplement
    V IBC  Vorwort  - 1935,  Cambridge Rules - Kurze Übersicht
    VI IBC  Introduction  - 1950,  Amsterdam Rules
    VII IBC  Introduction  - 1952,  Stockholm Code - Key to numbering
    VIII IBC  Preface  - 1956,  Paris Code - Key to numbering
    IX IBC  Preface  - 1961,  Montreal Code - Key to numbering
    X IBC  Preface  - 1966,  Edinburgh Code - Key to numbering
    XI IBC  Preface  - 1972,  Seattle Code - Key to numbering
    XII IBC  Preface  - 1978,  Leningrad Code
    XIII IBC  Preface  - 1983,  Sydney Code
    XIV IBC  Preface  - 1988,  Berlin Code
    XV IBC  Preface  - 1994,  Tokyo Code - Key to numbering
    XVI IBC  Preface  - 2000,  Saint Louis Code
    XVII IBC  Preface  - 2006,  Vienna Code
    XVIII IBC  Preface  - 2012,  Melbourne Code - Key to re-numbering
    XIX IBC  Preface  - 2018,  Shenzhen Code - Key to re-numbering
       IMC11     2019,  San Juan Chap. F
    XX IBC         

 
 
 
Other Codes
    •  Rochester resolutions / Rochester Code
       Bull. Torrey Bot. Club  19: 290-291. 1892  [BHL]
    •  Harvard Code
       Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst.  52: [12]-15. 1895  [BHL]
    •  Berlin Rules
       Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin  1: 245-250. 1897  [BHL]
       - [English translation]  Bull. Torrey Bot. Club  24: 415-419. 1897  [BHL]
       - [English translation]  Bot. Gaz.  24: 107-110. 1897  [BHL]
       - [English translation]  J. Bot.  35: 305-307. 1897  [BHL]
       - [French translation]  Bull. Herb. Boissier  5: 768-779. 1897  [BHL]
       - [additions]  Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst.  70: 24-25. 1902  [BHL]
    •  Codex brevis maturus (1903)
    •  Philadelphia Code
       Bull. Torrey Bot. Club  31: 249-290. 1904  [BHL]
                  [ English: 249-261  –  French: 263-276  –  German: 277-290 ]
    •  American Code
       Bull. Torrey Bot. Club  34: 167-178. 1907  [BHL]
    •  type-basis Code
       Science  53: 312-314. 1921  [BHL]
    •  ICNCP
       [8th edition]  Scripta Horticulturae 10 / Regnum Veg. 151. 2009  [pdf]
       [9th edition]  Scripta Horticulturae 18  [pdf]

    Contemporary electronic versions
    • Tokyo Code     [ German: Vorwort, Code (pdf)  –  French  –  Slovak ]
    • Saint Louis Code     [ French  –  Slovak ]
    • Vienna Code
    • Melbourne Code    [ Chinese  –  French  –  Korean  –  Spanish  (all pdf) ]
    • Shenzhen Code     [ French  –  Portugese  –  Spanish  (all pdf) ]

 
    Miscellaneous:
    •  Dan H. Nicolson:  “A history of botanical nomenclature”
       (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: [33]-56. 1991)  [BHL]
    •  Nicholas Turland: The Code decoded. A user’s guide to the
           International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
    •  glossary of historical terms
    •  index of scientific names in proposals

    •  ICNafp: Appendices I–VII   [ was “Proposals and Disposals” ]
         [ includes index of proposals to conserve or reject names, etc ]

    •  “Guidelines for proposals to conserve or reject names”
    •  “Guidelines for requests for binding decisions on application
             of the Code”
    •  “Guidelines for the preliminary evaluation of general
             nomenclature manuscripts submitted to Taxon”
    •  “Author Guidelines”
    •  IMA guidelines
    •  BPH-2 at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation [ BPHOnline ] [  ]
    •  Taxonomic Literature II (TL-2) online at the Smithsonian Libraries

 
 
 
 
 
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