https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46628#page/145/

Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853) (Wikimedia Commons)

Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853) (Wikimedia Commons)

The first page or so of the Code is the minuting of the report. I’ve kept only the actual recommendations here.

Note the use of such cultural colonialisms as “barbarous” languages (i.e., not classical European languages), but also note that the committee allowed the use of Latinised versions of these.

Strickland’s opposition to the Quinarian system is well known (see Winsor 2015a, b, c) but he also used

More on Strickland: https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/hugh-strickland/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Strickland,_Hugh_Edwin

Papers and Manuscripts of Hugh E. Strickland

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/41c6e7ad-3558-3f01-b827-04af229df136

Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland, M.A. By William Jardine, 1858. Cambridge reprint. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139096973

From Jardine, opposite page cciv. Currently copyrighted by Cambridge.

From Jardine, opposite page cciv. Currently copyrighted by Cambridge.

Strickland 1840, Plate VIII.

Strickland 1840, Plate VIII.

References

Linné, Carl von. Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica. Translated by Stephen Freer. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198501220.001.0001

O’Hara, Robert J. “Diagrammatic Classifications of Birds, 1819-1901: Views of the Natural System in 19th-Century British Ornithology.” In Acta XIX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici: 22-29 June 1986; Ottawa, edited by H. Ouellet. Ottawa: National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1988.

———. “Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century.” Biology and Philosophy 6, no. 2 (1991): 255–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02426840.

———. “Trees of History in Systematics and Philology.” Memorie Della Società Italiana Di Scienze Naturali e Del Museo Civico Di Storia Naturale Di Milano 27 (1996): 81–88.

Rookmaaker, L.C. “The Early Endeavours by Hugh Edwin Strickland to Establish a Code for Zoological Nomenclature in 1842–1843.” Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68, no. 1 (March 2011): 29–40.

Strickland, Hugh Edwin. “XXIII.— On the True Method of Discovering the Natural System  in Zoology and Botany.” The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology VI, no. November (1840): 184–94.

Strickland, Hugh. E., “LVII. On the Structural Relations of Organized Beings.” The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 28, no. 188 (May 1, 1846): 354–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786444608645434.

Strickland, Hugh. E., John Phillips, John Richardson, Richard Owen, Leonard Jenyns, William J. Broderip, John S. Henslow, et al. “Report of a Committee Appointed ‘to Consider of the Rules by Which the Nomenclature of Zoology May Be Established on a Uniform and Permanent Basis.’” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1842, 1843, 105–21.

Winsor, Mary P. “Considering Affinity: An Ethereal Conversation (Part One of Three).” Endeavour 39, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 69–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2014.06.002.

———. “Considering Affinity: An Ethereal Conversation (Part Three of Three).” Endeavour 39, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 179–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2015.03.001.

———. “Considering Affinity: An Ethereal Conversation (Part Two of Three).” Endeavour 39, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 116–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2014.11.001.


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SERIES OF PROPOSITIONS FOR RENDERING THE NOMENCLATURE OF ZOOLOGY UNIFORM AND PERMANENT.

PREFACE.