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Zoological vs. botanical nomenclature: a forgotten ‘BioCode’ experiment from the times of the Strickland Code

Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58 B, I 35131 Padova, Italy
General Bonaparte (Carlo Luciano) Congresses of Italian scientists History of nomenclature Italian zoology

Abstract

A code intended to apply to both zoological and botanical nomenclature was drafted in 1842–43 by a commission appointed by the fourth Congress of Italian Scientists on request of the zoologist Carlo Luciano Bonaparte, as a reaction to the recently published Strickland Code (1842). Large excerpts from the latter document and an English translation of documents related to the Italian initiative are presented in appendices.

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