There is a new edition!, no longer with a red cover, but a green
one...............
Valid after december 31st 1999.

Gijs

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> Van: Andrew K. Rindsberg <[log in to unmask]>
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: ICZN (was Question from Austria)
> Datum: maandag 4 oktober 1999 16:54
>
> Thanks, Jose. I may have to vanish soon for a few days anyway, between
> field work and family matters. For anyone who wants to try their college
> library for the edition that will be obsolete in a few months, it is:
>
> Ride, W. D. L., Sabrosky, C. W., Bernardi, G., and Melville, R. V.
> (assisted by Corliss, J. O., Forest, J., Key, K. H. L., and Wright, C.
W.),
> 1985, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, third edition,
adopted
> by the XX General Assembly of the International Union of Biological
> Sciences: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature in association
> with British Museum (Natural History), London, & University of California
> Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, xx + 338 pp. No illustrations, but the
> title IS printed in gold on a bright red cover.
>
> A word of warning to Conchlers: This is a legal code, and as such it is a
> stultifyingly boring book. It is concerned with the rules and mechanics
of
> naming animals--not with how or why taxonomists work on animals. It is a
>  bilingual book: The lefthand pages are in French, the righthand pages in
> English.
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama