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- diese von mir angeregte Fórderung der internationalen Ordnung nicht: weiter 
- umterstützte. Ich publicire folgenden Brief blos, um mich zu rechtfertigen, 
dass ich nicht Schuld darin bin, wenn aus dem internationalen Preisaus- 
Schreiben, zu dem ich 3000 Mark versprochen hatte, nichts geworden ist. 
Berlin, 5./VIII 1896. 
Dear Mr. Britten! 
1 I received from Mssrs. West Newmann & Co. 200 copies of my paper 
L ,Notes on the Index Kewensis, but I got not yet their bill, although I asked 
2 them for it with a postal reply. 
3 You ommitted in that paper my proposition of the international 8 prize 
- questions, 1000 Mark each, for receiing 
: 1)1 Nomenclator varietatum phanerogamarum, 
m. e plantarum hybridarum, 
1 br ie lichenum, 
- whieh should become previous works for a »Nomenclator plantarum omnium*^ 
Land you did not return me yet the corrected sketch of the prospectus of 
- that projected competition. 
E I sent you that prospectus with my letter of 6th february; it should 
L20w be printed soonly — the English edition in your Journal of botany; 
Lor (otherwise) the competition would become impossible at all by your delay. 
1 See at S 2 al 4 of the prospectus, where the date: End of 1896 is a 
P eondition of that international competition proposed by me, to which I have 
the agreement of the publishing bookseller and of Mr. Autran, directeur du 
- Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier — and we want still your agreement. 
1 It is true that there is now very little hope to receive a competent 
- international Congress of botanic nomenclature for the emendation of the 
- Paris Codex as 
1 1) Mr. Malinvaud has withdrawn his propositions for it and interpreted 
- the lex prioritatis in a ridiculous manner. 
D 2) Mssrs. Ascherson and Engler hindered the Paris Congress in promising 
736 Vienna a Berlin Congress and not doing anything for it; 
: 3) as the Americain botanists persist either on their own rules or do 
1 nothing for a Paris Congress; 
1 4) as also English are in such a delay. 
Lt is therefor also little hope to receive a Nomenclator plantarum 
P 9mnium to be based on a4 competent Paris Congress and its amended Codex, 
E but I have done till now my best to promote it, and I shall not be responsible 
L5 you make impossible my proposed competition. The necessary time for 
- ihe competition runs away if you delay the matter. Yours faithfully 
3 Otto Kuntze. 
3 Im Juli 1896 veroffentlichte ich im Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, 
L7: 599—542 eine Erklürung zu Herrn Levier's Arüikel: 
., »LA PSEUDOPRIORITÉ ET LES NOMS A BÉQUILLES.^ 
TM In internationalen Diskussionen ist es guter Brauch, dass jeder die ihm gelüufigste 
1 P3 mternationalen Sprachen anwendet; ich werde daher diesmal auf den fulminanten, 
? Bon langen Artikel des Herrn Levier deutsch antworten. 
1 d Uebrigens wird die Kew Regel in Kew nicht consequent durchgeführt und liesse sich 
3 1894 T o BS "n aufstellen. Auch J. Britten zeigte Neigung davon abzuweichen, als er 
1 : of Bot. 
: 21 Zeuxine strateumatica J. Britt. benannte. 
