. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 96 Bulleiin of Zoological Nomenclature " Miiller" and " Muller" and in consequence between generic names based upon such patronymics (, Mulleria and Mulleria) and not with the method to be adopted in transliterating diacritic signs when a word, one of the letters of which has a diacritic mark above it, is latinised, on the word in question being used as part of a scientific name. We see therefore that, what Article 20 says is, in effect, that, where (for example) a generic name is given in honour of a man named " Muller "
. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 96 Bulleiin of Zoological Nomenclature " Miiller" and " Muller" and in consequence between generic names based upon such patronymics (, Mulleria and Mulleria) and not with the method to be adopted in transliterating diacritic signs when a word, one of the letters of which has a diacritic mark above it, is latinised, on the word in question being used as part of a scientific name. We see therefore that, what Article 20 says is, in effect, that, where (for example) a generic name is given in honour of a man named " Muller ", the diacritic mark over the second letter of the man's name is to be preserved, on the latinisation of the word, and that the resulting generic name is not to take the form " Muller ". The mandatory portion of Article 20 contains no provisions at all as to the method to be adopted in preserving the diacritic mark, when such a patronymic as " Muller " is latinised on being embodied in a generic name. The Boston " Recommendation " of 1907 does, however, give advice on this subject, favouring the use of a second vowel rather than the perpetuation of the actual diacritic mark itself. 4. The Thirteenth International Congress of Zoology at Paris in 1948 adopted a provision requiring, inter alia, that breaches of the provisions of Article 20 are automatically to be corrected by later authors (1950, Bull, zool. Nomencl. 4 : 67-68). The suggestion now submitted is that, when taking a decision on the allied proposals submitted by Dr. Muir-Wood, the Inter- national Commission in Zoological Nomenclature should also give a ruling (through the adoption of a Declaration) that the breaches which are auto- matically to be corrected relate only to cases where (as in the case of a generic name based on the name " Miiller " but published as Mulleria) a diacritic mark which appeared in the patronymic on which a name is based is incorrectly omitted altogethe
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