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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3263325" data-attributes="member: 24811">31.1.1. A species-group name, if a noun in the genitive case formed from a personal name that is Latin, or from a modern personal name that is or has been latinized, is to be formed in accordance with the rules of Latin grammar. 31.1.2. A species-group name, if a noun in the genitive case (see Article 11.9.1.3) formed directly from a modern personal name, is to be formed by adding to the stem of that name -i if the personal name is that of a man, -orum if of men or of man (men) and woman (women) together, -ae if of a woman, and -arum if of women; the stem of such a name is determined by the action of the original author when forming the genitive. It is explicit that both paths can be followed for "modern personal name". (A restriction does exist, but not this one: 31.1.2 covers only names formed from a personal name that is modern; thus, if the personal name is not modern, only 31.1.1 can be used.)Yes, although this is not explicit in the Code. What the Code requests is that a work be "issued for the purpose of providing a public and permanent scientific record". Newspapers, if they are issued for the sole purpose of an immediate dissemination of information, may be interpreted as failing to fulfil this criterion.(Note that the Code requests a purpose, not effective results, and is silent about whose purpose this is all about (an author's and a publisher's purpose may diverge). Note also that "[a] <a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/record" target="_blank">record</a>" is here used in the sense "A thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past", not in the sense "The sum of the past achievements or performance of a person, organization, or thing" (as in "the Scientific Record"); the French text allows only the first reading.)In terms of contents, both the text in the Zeitung and that in the Mittheilungen are clearly enough to make the name available; and as there is only 25 days between them, which one is accepted is not overly important here.</blockquote>

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