Jose H. Leal wrote:
>
> Art,
>
> The current edition of the code was published in 1985. It was published
> jointly by the International Trust of Zoological Nomenclature (based at the
> British Museum of Natural History in London, now known by its replacemnent
> name The Natural History Museum) and the University of California Press,
> Berkeley and Los Angeles (ISBN 0 520 05546 Z). I bought my copy back in
> 1986 at the British Museum bookstore. I didn't have to show them any proof
> of immortality ;). I would use the Internet to check whether the book is
> still in print. Copies of the draft of the new (fourth) edition of the code
> were sent to zoologists for comments and suggestions in 1995 (in many
> aspects it is more streamlined and less strict than the current version),
> but apparently the comission has postponed publication of this new version
> for sometime early in the new millenia.
Hello!
 
Hi Jose and Art,
 
The highlights of the proposed revisions (to be released sometime in
1998, HA!) are listed on the ICZN site but do not seem to be less strict
at all.
 
Later,
 
Emilio Jorge Power