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Panda & Jana: Alteration of Nomenclature of …
The class 577 in DDC represented as Spontaneous
Generation in 1 st edition, Properties of living matter from
2 nd to 14 th edition, Chemical Properties of Living Matter in
15 th edition, Philosophy of biology in 16 th edition, General
properties of living matter in 17 th edition. Then the class is
renamed as General nature of life from 18 th to 20 th edition
and Ecology from 21 st edition to 23 rd edition.
From the 1 st edition to 14 th edition the class 578 of DDC is
represented as Microscopy. Then it renamed as Biological
Techniques in 15 th edition, Microscopes and Microscopy
in 16 th and 17 th edition. In its 18th edition it renamed as
Microscopy in Biology and again the class changed its
nomenclature to Natural history of organisms in its 21 st
edition and continued up to 23 rd edition.
From 1 st edition to 14 th edition the class 579 is represented
as Collector’s Manuals, and then it changed its
nomenclature to Biological and Natural History
Collections in 15 th edition, Collection and preservation in
16 th edition, Collection and Preservation of Specimens in
17 th edition, Collection and preservation of biological
specimens from 18 th to 20 th editions. From 21 st edition the
class again renamed as Microorganisms, fungi, algae.
Findings
1 In most of the editions of DDC the class 570 is
represented by the subject Biology.
2 The subjects Archaeology is added with Biology
from 10 th edition to 14 th edition of DDC.
3 In 15 th edition the class was represented by the
subject Biological Sciences.
4 From 1970’s to the first decade of 20 th century
i.e., from 18 th edition to 22 nd edition the class was
represented by the subject Life Sciences.
5 The subject Biology has been treated separately
under the class 574 when the class 570 is represented by
either Biological Sciences or Life Sciences but in 21 st and
in 22 nd edition of DDC Biology is added with Life
Sciences to represent the class 570.
6 In 16 th and 17 th edition of DDC the subject
Anthropology has been treated under the class 570 with
Biological Sciences though it was separately treated under
the class 572 in its different editions of DDC. From 20 th
edition of DDC the subject Anthropology has been treated
under the class 590.
7 So, there is no uniform pattern to treat the class
570 in different editions of DDC to cover subordinate
subjects under the class.
8 Up to 16 th editions the class 572 has been
represented either Ethnology or Anthropology or both
Ethnology and Anthropology. In its next three editions the
class has been represented as Human races but from 21 st
edition the class is renamed as Biochemistry.
9 The class 575 was represented by Evolution or
Evolution and Phylogeny up to 15 th edition. Then it
renamed as Organic evolution or Organic evolution and
Genetics up to 20 th edition. But from 21 st edition scope of
the class was totally changed and renamed as Specific
parts of system in plants.
10 The class 576 was represented by either
Embryology, Origin and beginning of life or
Microbiology up to 20 th edition of DDC. The subject
Genetics and Evolution was shifted from the class 575 to
576 in 21 st edition of DDC.
11 The nomenclature of the class 577 was Properties
of living matter up to 14 th edition. Terminological changes
have been found from 16 th to 20 th editions and the class is
represented as Ecology from 21 st edition.
12 In the same way Microscopy was the
nomenclature of the class 578 up to 14 th edition but it
renamed as Natural history of organisms from 21 st edition.
13 The nomenclature Collector’s Manuals of the
class 579 ultimately changed to Microorganisms, fungi,
algae in its latest editions.
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Due to development of subjects and to cover the subjects
under a class the nomenclature of a class has been changed
from edition to edition. Though, up to 14 th edition of DDC
nomenclature of the classes under study remains almost
same and changes of terminology of the classes begin from
15 th edition of DDC. But changes of nomenclature of the
classes begin in 21 st edition and remain same for the last
two editions. The limitation of pure base notational system
has also been found at the time of assigning the
nomenclature of a subject or shifting of a subject from one
class to another class.
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