Proposals to the 1950, Stockholm Congress

PROPOSALS, VII IBC (1950)

List of proposals submitted to the VII International Botanical
Congress, Stockholm, 1950, to amend the International Rules ed. 3
(as amended at Amsterdam).

This Congress was originally planned for 1940, but postponed due
to WWII. Proposals to the 1940 Congress could address only new
points (not voted on earlier), while for the 1950 Congress this
restriction had been lifted.

Note: for ease of reading, the Rapporteur’s “stencilled” has been
rendered as “mimeographed”, and his “type-script” as “typed”.

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See also:

• Congres action
• conversion table

Directions

- [circular]
Rhodora 40: 464-464. 1938

- [postponement]
Rhodora 42: 54-54. 1940

Proposals

1940–01	Louis Cutter Wheeler Additions and amendments to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature Amer. Midl. Naturalist 21: 526-529. 1939
1940–02	G. de Toni Bemerkungen über Art. 38 der Internationalen Regeln der botanischen Nomenklatur Brescia, 1939. 1 p. [also in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 46: 80-81. 1939, as “J. de Toni”] [rjb.csic]
1940–03	Swedish Botanists Amendment of Art. 68 Göteborg, 1939. 1 p.
	- C.X. Furtado The nomenclature of hybrids [rjb.csic] Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 44: 244-255. 1938
1940–04	H.H. Allan The nomenclature of hybrids Chron. Bot. 5: 205-209. 1939
1940–05	T.A. Sprague The nomenclature of hybrids Chron. Bot. 5: 209-212. 1939 [incl. in 1940–14]
	- H. Uittien Reflections on the nomenclature of so-called hybrids Chron. Bot. 5: 212-214. 1939 [out of copyright]
1940–06	Alfred Rehder Proposed amendments to [incl. in 1950–62] the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature J. Arnold Arbor. 20: 269-279. 1939 [BHL]
	- Norman C. Fassett The proposed changes in Article 58 of the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature Rhodora 50: 249-252. 1948 [BHL]
1940–07	Ruth Patrick A suggested starting point for the nomenclature of diatoms Philadelphia, 1939. 2 pp. [included in 1950–62] [also in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 67: 614-615. 1940]
1940–08	B.P.G. Hochreutiner 1939 [mimeographed]
1940–09	C.X. Furtado Amendments proposed to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 11: 1-30. 1939 [BHL]
1940–10	Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti Über Mängel und Unklarheiten in den botanischen Nomenklaturregeln. Mit Anträgen für den Kongreß 1940 Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 46: 82-94. 1939 [out of copyright]
1940–11	H.A. Gleason Proposed amendments to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature as adopted at Cambridge, 1930 New York, 1939. 1 p. [part. incl. in 1950–62]
1940–12	F.R. Fosberg Nomenclature proposals for the 1940 botanical congress Amer. J. Bot. 26: 229-231. 1939 [part. incl. in 1950–62]
1940–13	F. Bolle „Varietas typica” Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 13: [524]-530. 1937
1940–14	British Botanists Proposed additions and amendments to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 7: 317-334. 1939 [reproduced by permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]
1940–15	G. De Toni [on nomina specifica conservanda] Brescia, 1939
1940–16	R. Melville [prop. to list Ulmus campestris as a nomen ambiguum] J. Bot. 76: 261-265. 1938
1940–17	H.N. Dixon [proposals on various names] J. Bot. 77: 176-178. 1939 [out of copyright]
1940–18	A. Becherer [proposals to conserve three generic names] Candollea 7: [137]-139. 1936
1940–19	E. Werdermann [proposals to conserve generic names] Kakteenkunde Heft 3: 1937
1940–20	Alfred Rehder, Ernest J. Palmer & Leon Croizat [seven binomials proposed as nomina ambigua] J. Arnold Arbor. 19: 282-290. 1938 [BHL]
1940–21	Louis Cutter Wheeler [proposals to conserve generic names, incl. in 1950–62] Contr. Gray Herb. 124: 47-52. 1939 [BHL]
1940–22	J. Burtt Davy [prop. to list Populus-binomials as nomina ambigua] Forestry 10: 166-168. 1936
1940–23	H. Pfeiffer Dichronema oder Rhynchospora? Zwei Anträge an den VII Internationalen Botanikerkongreß zur Stabilisierung der Cyperaceennomenklatur Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 43: 258-262. 1938
1940–24	G.W. Martin [in support of conserving the generic name Guepinia] Amer. J. Bot. 23: 627-629. 1936
1940–25	H. Hara [proposal on the generic name Heloniopsis] [mimeographed, without date]
1940–26	G. Houtzagers [prop. to list Populus-binomials as nomina ambigua] Arnhem [1939?], 10 pp. [mimeographed]
1940–27	G. Houtzagers [prop. to list Populus canadensis as a nomen ambiguum] Arnhem [1939?], 1p. [mimeographed]
1940–28	A.A. Bullock Actinocheita [ on a point of typification? ] Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 7: 337-339. 1939 [reproduced by permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]
1950–01	Rolf Singer & Alexander H. Smith [proposals to conserve generic names] Mycologia 38: 240-299. 1946 [Cyberliber]
1950–02	E.D. Merrill [proposal to conserve the name Neolitsea] J. Arnold Arb. 29: 198-201. 1948 [BHL]
1950–03	E.D. Merrill [on generic names to be rejected] J. Arnold Arb. 29: 202-214. 1948 [BHL]
1950–04	N. Hylander [withdrawn and replaced by 1950–48]
1950–05	J. Lanjouw Additions and Amendments to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature proposed by Dutch Botanists 1948. 13 pp. [mimeographed]
1950–06	J.W.G. Lund [typed, without date]
1950–07	R.A. Dyer 1949 [typed]
1950–08	C.A. Smith 1949 [typed]
1950–09	C.A. Smith [proposal to conserve the generic name Dimorphoteca] 1949 [typed]
1950–10	E.C. Verdoorn & C.A. Smith [proposal to conserve the generic name Hessea] 1948 [typed]
1950–11	Japanese Botanists [privately printed, without date]
1950–12	A.G.L. Hellyer [typed, without date]
1950–13	A.H. Smith & L. Wehmeyer 1949 [typed]
1950–14	H. St. John 1949 [mimeographed] [(partially?) included in 1950–62]
1950–15	Henning Horn Af Rantzien & Sigurd Olsen A suggested starting point for the nomenclature of Charophyta Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 43: [98]-106. 1949
1950–16	L. Benson [prop. to list Prosopis odorata as a nomen confusum] Amer. J. Bot. 28: 753-754. 1941
1950–17	J. Mattfeld [proposals to conserve generic names] [typed, without date]
1950–18	William W. Diehl Article 64 and the nomenclature of lichens Mycologia 41: 89-91. 1949 [= 1950–53] [Cyberliber]
1950–19	C.G. Shaw [typed, without date]
1950–20	American Phytopathological Society & Mycological Society of America [mimeographed, without date]
1950–21	Elizabeth McClintock [on the typification of Dracocephalum] Leafl. W. Bot. 5: 171-172. 1949 [BHL]
1950–22	Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America 1949 [privately printed] - J.M. Schopf *Should there be a living Metasequoia?* Science 107: 344-345. 1948
1950–23	E. Teiling 1949 [typed]
1950–24	Royal Horticultural Society (C.V.L. Lycett) [mimeographed, without date]
1950–25	R.E. Buchanan 1948 [mimeographed]
1950–26	R.E. Buchanan [typed, without date]
1950–27	Donald P. Rogers The meaning of Article 57 of the International Rules Mycologia 40: 241-254. 1948 [Cyberliber]
1950–28	O.H. Selling [proposals to conserve generic names] 1947 [typed]
1950–29	R. Mansfeld & W. Rothmaler [typed, without date]
1950–30	S.T. Blake [typed, without date]
1950–31	J.H. Willis [typed, without date]
1950–32	G.L. Davis [proposal to conserve the generic name Brachycome] [typed, without date]
1950–33	I.V. Newman 1948 [mimeographed]
1950–34	M. Pichon [typed, without date]
1950–35	M. Pichon Sur l’Article 37 ter des règles de la nomenclature Notul. Syst. (Paris) 13: 258-260. 1948 [BHL]
1950–36	D. Chatterjee Validating botanical names by reference to pre-1753 literature J. Arnold Arb. 30: 71-74. 1949 [BHL]
1950–37	M.A. Donk [proposals to conserve some generic names and to list others as nomina confusa] Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 18: 83-170. 1949
1950–38	A.C. Smith [proposals to conserve generic names] 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–39	Bernard Boivin Proposals in botanical nomenclature Canad. Field-Naturalist 63: 66-78. 1949 [BHL]
1950–40	R. Melville & E. Milne Redhead 1949 [privately printed]
1950–41	Rhoda W. Benham [proposal to conserve the generic name Candida] [mimeographed, without date]
1950–42	C.J. Hickman 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–43	D.P. Rogers [proposals to conserve generic names] 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–44	Donald P. Rogers Proposals for amendment of the International Rules Mycologia 41: 215-221. 1949 [Cyberliber]
	- Rolf Singer Should Dr. D. P. Rogers’ proposals for the regulation for fixing the generic types be accepted as published in Mycologica 41: 219, 1949? Mycologia 42: 195-197. 1950 [Cyberliber]
1950–45	Donald P. Rogers Proposals for the amendment of Art. 64 of the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature Mycologia 40: 635-637. 1948 [Cyberliber]
1950–46	Botanistes Belges [mimeographed, without date]
1950–47	W.G. Herter Weitere Vorschläge zur Abänderung der Nomenklaturregeln Revista Sudamer. Bot. 8: 11-12. 1949 [= 1950–79]
1950–48	N. Hylander [mimeographed, without date; proposes a complete replacement of the Rules]
1950–49	W.W. Diehl [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–50	C.W. Dodge [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–51	W.W. Diehl [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–52	L.E. Wehmeyer & J.A. Stevenson [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–53	William W. Diehl Article 64 and the nomenclature of lichens Mycologia 41: 89-91. 1949 [= 1950–18] [Cyberliber]
1950–54	C.G. Shaw [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–55	G.R. Bisby & J.A. Stevenson [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–56	Mycology and Disease Survey, U.S.D.A. [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–57	L.E. Wehmeyer [proposal to conserve the generic name Pleospora] [mimeographed, without date; also incorporated in 1950–20]
1950–58	J.R. Reeder & R.S. Cowan [proposals to conserve generic names] [mimeographed, without date]
1950–59	L. Johnson & J. Garden [proposals to conserve generic names] [typed, without date]
1950–60	C.E.B. Bremekamp [proposal to conserve the generic name Acranthera] 1949 [typed]
1950–61	A.H.G. Alston, F. Ballard & R.E. Holttum [proposals to conserve generic names] 1949 [typed]
1950–62	American Taxonomists [W.H. Camp, H.W. Rickett & C.A. Weatherby, the central committee on nomenclature of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists] Proposed changes in the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature Brittonia 7: [1]-51. 1949
1950–63	E.L. Little [proposals to conserve family names] 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–64	Elbert L. Little, Jr. A proposal to conserve specific epithets of plants Phytologia 3: 90-100. 1949 [BHL]
1950–65	Elbert L. Little, Jr. [proposals to conserve four generic names] Phytologia 3: 81-86. 1949 [BHL]
1950–66	E.L. Little [proposals to conserve generic names] Bryologist 46: [105]-125. 1943 [included in 1950–62]
1950–67	E.L. Little [proposals to conserve generic names] Madroño 7: 240-251. 1944 [included in 1950–62]
1950–68	E.L. Little [proposals to conserve generic names] Bryologist 52: 1-22. 1949
1950–69	Association of Applied Biologists 1949 [typed]
1950–70	F.R. Fosberg [mimeographed, without date]
1950–71	Elbert L. Little, Jr. Rejection of obscure plant names unaccepted within a century Phytologia 3: 87-89: 1949 [BHL]
1950–72	W.H. Camp Proposals for changes in various portions of the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature dealing with genetically complicated groups and also with horticultural materials 1949 [mimeographed] [preliminary version?] [final version in Amer. J. Bot. 37: 31-38. 1950]
1950–73	Ruth Patrick [proposals to conserve generic names] [mimeographed, without date]
1950–74	L.E. Wehmeyer [mimeographed, without date]
1950–75	Royal Horticultural Society 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–76	Royal Horticultural Society 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–77	Royal Horticultural Society 1949 [mimeographed]
1950–78	W.G. Herter Vorschlaege zur Abaenderung der Internationalen Nomenklaturregeln Revista Sudamer. Bot. 6: 46-46. 1939
1950–79	W.G. Herter Weitere Vorschläge zur Abänderung der Nomenklaturregeln Revista Sudamer. Bot. 8: 11-12. 1949 [= 1950–47]
1950–80	N. Polunin [typed, without date]
1950–81	K. Domin [typed, without date]
1950–82	E. Janchen [proposals to conserve generic names] Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 52: 144-161. 1943 & Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 53: 174-178. 1944
	- C.X. Furtado A commentary on the laws of botanical nomenclature Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 9: 223-284. 1937 [BHL]
1950–83	C.X. Furtado A further commentary on the rules of nomenclature Gard. Bull. Singapore 12: 311-377. 1949 [BHL]
1950–84	H.J. Lam 1950 [typed]
1950–85	D.P. Rogers [proposals to conserve generic names and to list names as nomina confusa] Farlowia 3: 425-493. 1949 [BHL]
1950–86	M.S. Doty [proposed lectotypes] Lloydia 11: 123-138. 1948
1950–87	R.E. Holttum 1949 [typed]
1950–88	B.K. Boom 1950 [typed]
1950–89	Nomenklaturkommission des Schweizerischen Gartenbaues 1950 [typed]

Congress

J. Lanjouw, acting Rapporteur général
Synopsis of proposals

- Introduction
Syn. prop. Stockholm vii-xii. 1950

- List of proposals
Syn. prop. Stockholm xiii-xvi. 1950 [voting form]

- [the proposals: 1-82, 83-168, 169-255]
Syn. prop. Stockholm 1-255. 1950

[J. Lanjouw?]
Synopsis of proposals, Stockholm [offer of sale]
Taxon 1: 36-36. 1952

[Utrecht conference (picture of participants)]

[Nomenclature Section (picture of participants)]

H.C.D. de Wit
    The changes in
       the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature
          made by the 7th Int. Bot. Congress at Stockholm.
             An unofficial review
    Flora Malesiana Bulletin 7: 197–231. 1950

J. Lanjouw, Rapporteur général
The Stockholm 1950 Rules of Botanical Nomenclature
Taxon 1: 7-8. 1951 [brief Congress report]

J. Lanjouw, Rapporteur général
The new rules of typification
Taxon 1: 19-21. 1951

[J. Lanjouw?]
    Resolutions relating [to] taxonomy of
       the Seventh International Botanical Congress
          (Stockholm - July 1950)
    Taxon 1: 28-28. 1951

J. Lanjouw, Rapporteur général
[Proceedings]
Regnum Veg. 1: 457-541. 1953

- Section 2, the type method
Regnum Veg. 1: 541-543. 1953

    - Final report: committee on the nomenclature
       of cultivated plants [+ decisions on this topic]
       Regnum Veg. 1: 543-547. 1953

- Paleobotanical Nomenclature as accepted by the Congress
Regnum Veg. 1: 547-548. 1953

    - Report of the Special Committee for Fungi
          as accepted by the Congress
       Regnum Veg. 1: 549-550. 1953

Miscellaneous papers

A.S. Hitchcock
Nomenclatural type specimens of plant species
Science 21: 828-832. 1905

Charles Schuchert & S.S. Buckman
The nomenclature of types in natural history
Science 21: 899-901. 1905

C.X. Furtado
The nomenclature of types
Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 9: 285-309. 1937 [BHL]

J. Ewan
Isotype vs. co-type as designates for duplicate type
Chron. Bot. 7: 8-9. 1942

S.F. Blake
    Co-type, syntype,
       and other terms referring to type material
    Rhodora 45: [481]-485. 1943                                  [BHL]

G. Troupin
La terminologie des types en botanique systematique
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 82: [57]-66. 1949

R.T. Clausen
On the citation of authorities for botanical names
Science 88: 299-300. 1938

L.H. Bailey
“Other observations on binomials”
Gentes Herbarum 7: 174-178. 1946

H.W. Rickett
Citation of author’s names in taxonomy
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 75: 172-174. 1948

Discussion on mycological nomenclature, 21 February 1942
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 25: 428–439. 1942

E.M. Wakefield
Why rules?
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 25: 428–432. 1942

E.W. Mason
New species or old?
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 25: 433–434. 1942

G.R. Bisby
Who is the author?
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 25: 434–435. 1942

J. Ramsbottom
Conclusions and prospects
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 25: 436–439. 1942

C.L. Shear
Conserving names of fungi
Mycologica 35: 267-271. 1943 [Cyberliber]

Julian H. Miller
The starting point for nomenclature of the fungi
Mycologica 35: 584-589. 1943 [Cyberliber]

G.R. Bisby
Nomenclature of fungi
Mycologica 36: 279-285. 1944 [Cyberliber]

G.C. Ainsworth
The new Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 36: 273-277. 1953

A.A. Beetle
Specific decapitalization
Chron. Bot. 7: 380-381. 1943

L.H. Bailey
“Species-names with capital letters”
Gentes Herbarum 7: 168-174. 1946

N. Polunin
Specific and trivial decapitalization
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 77: 214-221. 1950

A.C. Smith
The principle of priority in biological nomenclature
Chron. Bot. 9: 114-119. 1945

H.A. Gleason
On the preservation of well-known binomials
Phytologia 2: 201-213. 1947 [BHL]

E.L. Little
A proposal to stabilize plant names
Phytologia 2: 451-456. 1948 [BHL]

Albert C. Smith
A legislated nomenclature for species of plants?
Amer. J. Bot. 36: 624-626. 1949

H. Hjelmqvist
The conservation of species names
Bot. Not. 1950: 328-347. 1950

C.X. Furtado
Validity or effectiveness of publication
Chron. Bot. 3: 336-339. 1937

B.P.G. Hochreutiner
    Validité des publications (a l’occasion d’un article
       de M. Furtado dans Chronica Botanica)
    Candollea 7: 509-517. 1938

C.X. Furtado
    Validating botanical names by referring
       to invalid literature
    Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 10: 162-172. 1938       [BHL]

C.X. Furtado
Validating a specific epithet under an invalid genus
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 44: 256-264. 1938 [rjb]

C.X. Furtado
Effectiveness of Advance separates [rjb.csic]
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 46: 269-270. 1939

C.X. Furtado
Invalid, impriorable, and illegitimate names
Chron. Bot. 5: 214-215. 1939

Landgerichtsrat Dölz
    Botanische Nomenklaturregeln im Spiegel
       unserer Weltanschauung                               [rjb.csic]
    Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 42: 185-191. 1937

O.Schwarz
    Gemeinschaftsgeist und Autorenrechte
       in der botanischen Nomenklatur                   [rjb.csic]
    Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 42: 191-198. 1937

R. Mansfeld
Problemen der Nomenklaturregeln
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 121: 4-13. 1940

A.B. Stout
The nomenclature of cultivated plants
Amer. J. Bot. 27: 339-347. 1940

Leon Croizat
    A discussion of new and critical synonymy
       [on the var. typica and on Cymbogon Bequaertii]
    J. Arnold. Arbor. 22: 133-142. 1941                      [BHL]

[...]
    A discussion on the differences in observance
       between zoological and botanical nomenclature
    Proc. Linn. Soc. London 156: 126-146. 1944

N. Hylander
    Nomenclatorische und systematische Studien
       über nordische Gefässpflanzen
    Uppsala Univ. Årsskr. 7: 1-337. 1945

H.K. Airy Shaw
    Typification of new names derived from persons
       or places
    Kew Bull. [1]: 35-39. 1947 [reproduced by permission of
    the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]

E.E. Sherff
Symposium on botanical nomenclature
Amer. J. Bot. 36: 1-32. 1949

R. Mansfeld
    Die Technik der wissenschaftlichen
       Pflanzenbenennung: Einfuhrung in die
          Internationale Regeln der botanische Nomenklatur
    Akademie-Verlag. Berlin, 1949. 116 pp.

H.W. Rickett & W.H. Camp
The application and use of botanical names
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 77: 245-261. 1950

Charles Gardner Shaw
Article 57
Mycologica 42: 325-330. 1950 [Cyberliber]

T.A. Sprague
Minutes of the Utrecht conference
Chron. Bot. 12: 9-53. 1950

E.D. Merrill (Cambridge, Mass.)
The Cheltenham conference on botanical nomenclature
Taxon 1: 35-36. 1952