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Announcement

At the annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, held in Rochester, N. Y., April 14, 1927,¹ upon the motion of Dr. Francis G. Blake, the Association recommended the general adoption of the designation of the human blood groups by the well known letters, according to the suggestion of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered the groups in 1900. In the order of frequency of the groups in this country and Europe these designations are

1. O—universal donor
   
2. A—formerly Group II
   
3. B—formerly Group III
   
4. AB—universal recipient
   

This nomenclature is now known as the "international" nomenclature of the blood groups; it is rapidly being adopted in all countries, and has recently been approved by the Committee on Hygiene of the League of Nations.²

Footnotes

¹ Editorial, Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., April 30, 1927.

² Deutsche Med. Woch., August 31, 1928, page 1474.