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THE PREHISTORY AND HISTORY OF IAPT
Author(s) -
Stafleu Frans A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1221116
Subject(s) - herbarium , nomenclature , index (typography) , library science , taxonomy (biology) , prehistory , taxon , set (abstract data type) , geography , computer science , data science , world wide web , biology , zoology , ecology , archaeology , programming language
Summary An account of the pre‐1950 attempts to set up an international organization to deal with “urgent taxonomic needs” such as the coordination of the work on botanical nomenclature, the provision of guides to herbaria, collections and literature, the organization of international meetings, and the publication of a journal as the main tool to achieve these goals. The history of IAPT, founded 1950, is briefly treated, highlighting the role of the journal Taxon and the publication of the Index herbariorum, the Index nominum genericorum, and Taxonomic literature in realizing the pre‐1950 as well as several of the current needs of plant taxonomy with an emphasis on the importance of maintaining the IAPT and its Bureau for the implementation of these projects.