GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS1. The progress of bacteriology can be furthered by a precise system of nomenclature which is properly integrated with the systems used by botanists and zoologists and accepted by the majority of bacteriologists in all countries. Bacteriological nomenclature considers bacteria, related organisms, and the viruses. Botanical and zoological codes provide for nomenclature of certain groups such as the yeasts and fungi, protozoa and algae. These are of such significance in the microbiological laboratory that provision is necessary in the bacteriological code for the consideration of special nomenclatural problems in these groups and for co-ordination of findings with zoologists and botanists.2. The precepts on which this system of bacteriological nomenclature is based are divided into principles, rules, and recommendations.The principles (Chapter 2) form the basis of the rules and recommendations. The rules (Chapter 3) are designed (1) to make effective the principles given in Chapter 2, (2) to put the nomenclature of the past into order, and (3) to provide for that of the future. They are always retroactive; names or forms of nomenclature contrary to a rule (illegitimate names or forms) cannot be maintained.The recommendations deal with subsidiary points, their object being to bring about greater uniformity and clearness, especially in future nomenclature; names or forms contrary to a recoinmendation cannot on that account be rejected, but they are not examples to be followed.3. Provisions for emendation of rules, for special exceptions to rules, and for their interpretation in doubtful cases have been made through the establishment of a Nomenclature Committee for the International Association of Microbiologists and its Judicial Commission (Chapter 4).
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