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te rapidly. Are the names 
S we to add a 7th proposition, 
mething like this: "No name recognized since 1891 is to be deemed withdrawn from the 
foperation of the 5th rule? "Then again it must be decided what shall be considered "use" 
0f a name. lf a name appears in a work of wide cireulation there is a presumption that 
has been used more or less. How many other works must cite it to give it validity ? 
PAnd must they cite it with approval, or will citation as a synonym or without comment 
ce? "What sort of works shall be referred to to ascertain whether a name has been 
d? Are names used in catalo If a writer publish two books, 
five years oks comes within the limit, 
ve the name i Or must some other author use them? 
lvi i i ion of such a rule is too great to make 
nts, b 
erified. W 
what they It would be much 
de by his opponents if they were in the 
Sainst "disagreeable alterations" and to ma 
9Ut the faet remains that Dr. Kuntze 
Perhaps, for all the flowering plants at one 
In every group of the vegetable kingd 
their alterations. Their alterations beca Had tlie 
Orm been conducted ha it would have seemed quite proper to many 
9 now vigorously deno 
LES PROPOSITIONS VIENNOISES DE NOMENCLATURE 
COMMENTÉES par M. ROSCOE POUND. 
de Bp On trouve. dans ,The American Naturalist^ de décembre 1895 et janvier 1896, section 
? Botanique rédigée par le professeur C. E. Dessey, une traduction de la déclaration de 
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