Abstract
Subcommittee 3C was the third of three subcommittees comprising the Special Committee on Lectotypification authorised by the Berlin Congress (see McNeill, 1987; Nicolson, 1988). The Subcommittee's mandate came from a proposal made by W. T. Stearn in connection with the discussion of Art. 8 Prop. A at Berlin (see Greuter & al., 1989: 46-54). Stearn suggested that as the consistent adoption of either the Britton & Brown (1913) choices of type for Linnaean generic names or those of Hitchcock (1929) and Green (1929) would fail to maintain current usage of some names, causing disruption, it would be better, where a conflict existed, to choose the type that would best maintain usage of the name in question. Subcommittee 3C was subsequently established to produce specific proposals aimed at avoiding disadvantageous changes in the usage of Linnaean generic names.
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