Bulletin of Zoological Nomendafure 35 PROPOSED ADDITION TO THE " OFFICIAL INDEX OF REJECTED AND INVALID WORKS IN ZOOLOGY " OF THE TITLE OF THE GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARTINI (F.H.W.) PUBLISHED IN 1767 UNDER THE TITLE " KURZE ABHANDLUNG VON DEN CONCHYLIEN " OF THE WORK BY GEOFFROY (E.L.) PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR UNDER THE TITLE " TRAITE SOMMAIRE DES COQUILLES " By FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. (Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) (Commission Reference : Z.N.(S.) 1186) The purpose of the present apphcation is to submit to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature particulars regarding an old and evidently non-binomrnal work and to recommend the addition of the title of that work to the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works in Zoological Nomenclature, this being desirable both as part of the general policy enjoined upon the International Commission by the Fourteenth International Congress of Zoology, Copenhagen, 1953, of building up the foregoing Offi/;ial Index as and when opportunity oflfers and partly because (as is explained in paragraph 6 below) at least one suggestion was made many years ago that a generic name in current use should be displaced on the ground that it was a junior synonym of a name published in the work in question. 2. The work concerned is a German translation by Martini (F.H.W.) of the work by Geoffroy (E.L.) published in Paris in 1767 under the title Traite Sommaire des Coquilles, tant fluviatiles que terrestres, qui se trouvent aux Environs de Paris. This work, it wiU be recalled, has been rejected for nomenclatorial purposes and its title placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works in Zoological Nomenclature by the RuUng given by the International Commission in Opinion 362 (1955, Ops. Decls. int. Comm. zool. Nomencl. 11 : 173 — 183). The status of Martini's German translation was not dealt with in the foregoing Opinion and it is for this reason that it is now necessary to submit this matter to the International Commission. 3. Martini's translation was published at Niirnberg in 1767 (i.e. in the same year as that in which GreoflFroy's original French edition was pubUshed in Bvll. zool. Nomencl. Vol. 13, Double-Part 2/3. March 1957.
Proposed addition to the "Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works in Zoology" of the title of the German translation by Martini (F.H.W.) published in 1767 under the title "Kurze Abhandlung von den Conchylien" of the work by Geoffroy (E. L.) published in the same year under the title "Traite Sommaire des Coquilles"
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