The previous status report (Taxon 42: 435-446. 1993) appeared shortly before the Tokyo Congress. Although earlier such reports had been taken care of by the Rapporteurs, I agreed, then and now, to compile it from records kept as editor of the Nomenclature Column of and as Secretary of the General Committee. The previous report accounted for 190 new proposals, up to No. 1060; this report accounts for 356 additional proposals, up to No. 1416, almost a doubling! The Nomenclature Section of the XV International Congress, Yokohama 1993, sanctioned all approvals, by the General Committee, of proposals for conservation or rejection (see Englera 14: 253. 1994), including some that were decided during the Congress that were not published until afterwards (in 43: 279-281. 1994). The numbers of these proposals, for which the entries already appear in the Toyko Code, are placed between square brackets ([]). The tabular overview lists all proposals on which General Committee action was not completed at the time of the previous report, as well as all subsequent proposals published by May All cited publications are in Taxon, for which the volume number is 1951 years short of the year of publication, so that a reference such as 48:129 can be read as Taxon 48: 129. 1999. In the columns relating the recommendations of the permanent committees for the relevant taxonomic groups (Rec. Sp. C.) and the actions by the General Committee (Act. G. C.), a plus sign (+) means that the proposal was recommended / approved; a minus sign (-) means that it was not recommended / refused; a plus-minus sign (?) means that the Committee failed making a recommendation or postponed action (a 60 % majority of Committee members, for or against a proposal, being now required to make a recommendation or take action: see 45: 526. 1996); the letter w stands for: withdrawn by the proposer. The Berlin Congress asked for a Committee to report on the typification of Linnaean generic names affected by the current anathemisation of types designated by members of the Brittonian school (see Art. 10, voted Ex. 6). The report by Jarvis & al. (in 41: 552-583. 1992), recommending type stabilisation by conservation of 72 such names, was not brought up at the 1993 Congress and defaulted to the General Committee which asked the pertinent Permanent Committees for recommendations, which all made. However, one Committee recommended all proposals indiscriminately, with few specific exceptions, although a large majority of them are technically unnecessary, and action by the General Committee on these was therefore deferred. All these unnumbered proposals have been inserted in the appropriate place in the sequence of published proposals.