[Taxacom] Botanical Nomenclature Workshop in Kunming, China from August 10–15, 2007

[Li-Bing Zhang]

A Botanical Nomenclature Workshop, co-supported by Missouri Botanical
Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, Flora of China project, and Dr. Dan
Nicolson, will be held at Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Heilongtan, Yunnan 650204, China from August 10 to 15, 2007.
Speakers will include four senior editors of the International Code of
Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code): Fred Barrie, John McNeill, Dan
Nicolson, and Nick Turland and the Chinese translator of the Vienna Code,
Li-Bing Zhang. The lectures will be given in English with Chinese
translation.

*Primary Contact (Organizer)*: Professor Hua Peng: hpeng at mail.kib.ac.cn
*Secondary Contact*: Mr. Nick Turland: nicholas.turland at mobot.org
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*Main workshop program: *



*Friday, August 10, 2007*

2:00 – 5:00 pm*    Registration*

7:00 pm*                 Social Mixer at Kunming Botanical Garden*

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*Saturday, August 11, 2007*

8:30 am                 *Welcome remarks by Director, Prof. Li De-Zhu*

8:45 am                 *Remarks by the organizer, Prof. Peng Hua*

9:00 am                 *Introduction and a brief history of the Code – John
McNeill*

11:00 am              Discussions

12:00 noon           Break

2:00 pm                 *Terminology in botanical nomenclature** – Nick
Turland*

4:00 pm                 Discussions



*Sunday, August 12, 2007*

8:00 am                 *S** tandard reference works and online resources in
botanical nomenclature** – Dan Nicolson*

9:30 am                 Discussions

10:00 am              *Publication of botanical names – John McNeill*

11:30 am              Discussions

12:00 noon           Break

2:00 pm                 *Typification – Fred Barrie *

4:00 pm                 Discussions



*Monday, August 13, 2007*

8:00 am                 S*tatus and priority of names and citation of
authors – Fred Barrie***

10:00 am              Discussions

11:00 am              Break

2:00 pm                 *Names of taxa above the rank of species – Nick
Turland*

4:00 pm                 Discussions



*Tuesday, August 14, 2007*

8:00 am                 *Names of species and infraspecific taxa – Fred
Barrie*

10:00 am              Discussions

10:30 am              *Names of fungi, fossils, hybrids, and cultivated
plants – Nick Turland*

11:30 am              Discussions

12:00 noon           Break

2:00 pm                 *Orthography and gender of names – Nick Turland*

4:00 pm                 Discussions



*Wednesday, **August **15, 2007*

8:00 am                 *Rejection and conservation of names – Dan Nicolson*

10:00 am              Discussions

10:30 am              *Governance and future of the Code – John McNeill*

11:30 am              Discussions

12:00 noon           Break

2:00 pm                 *Main c**hanges in the Vienna Code – Li-Bing Zhang*

3:30 pm                 Discussions


*Presenters:*



*Fred Barrie* [fbarrie at fieldmuseum.org]

Member, Editorial Committee, ICBN

John G. Searle Herbarium

Field Museum of Natural History

Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60605-2496

U.S.A.



*John McNeill* [j.mcneill at rbge.ac.uk]

Chairman, Editorial Committee, ICBN

Rapporteur-général, Nomenclature Section, IBC

Herbarium

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

20a Inverleith Row

Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland

UNITED KINGDOM



*Dan Nicolson* [ nicolson at si.edu]

Member, Editorial Committee, ICBN

President, Nomenclature Section, IBC (Vienna)

United States National Herbarium

Department of Botany

National Museum of Natural History, MRC-166

Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, DC 20013-7012

U.S.A.



*Nick Turland* [nicholas.turland at mobot.org]

Secretary, Editorial Committee, ICBN

Vice-rapporteur, Nomenclature Section, IBC (Vienna)

Missouri Botanical Garden

P.O. Box 299

St. Louis, MO 63166-0299

U.S.A.



*Li-Bing* *Zhang *[libing.zhang at mobot.org]

Chinese Translator of ICBN (Vienna Code)

Missouri Botanical Garden

P.O. Box 299

St. Louis, MO 63166-0299

U.S.A.

Best wishes,
-- 
Li-Bing Zhang
Missouri Botanical Garden
Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166
Tel: +1-314-577-9454; Fax: +1-314-577-9596
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