ABSTRACT
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 186 A History of the Development of the Principle of Priority ............................................................ 188
Early Nomenclature: From Linnaeus’s Aphorisms to De Candolle’s Théorie Élémentaire ..... 188 Linnaeus’s Aphorisms .......................................................................................................... 188 Early Reactions to Linnaeus’s Nomenclature ...................................................................... 190 Nomenclature in Lamarck’s Flore Française ....................................................................... 191 Fabricius’s Philosophia botanica ......................................................................................... 191 Bergeret’s Phytonomatotechnie universelle ......................................................................... 191 Du Petit-Thouars’ Innovative (But Never Adopted) Nomenclature ..................................... 191 De Candolle’s (1813) First Definition of the Principle of Priority ....................................... 192
Toward the Strickland Code ...................................................................................................... 193 Strickland’s (1837) Rules ..................................................................................................... 193 Ogilby and Strickland Debate (1837-1838) ......................................................................... 194 The Strickland Code (1843) ................................................................................................. 195 Impact of the Strickland Code on Nomenclature ................................................................. 197
The Kiesenwetter Code (1858) ................................................................................................. 198 Descriptions versus Type Specimens: The Debate between Waterhouse and Schaum (1862) . 199 A Revised Edition of the Strickland Code (1865).....................................................................200
