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Congress may be prolonged, should it be deemed advisable, in 
consequence of the abundance of subjects for discussion or for 
other reasons approved by the Assembly. 
Anybody occupied in botanical study or cultivating any 
special branch of botany will be entitled to take part in the 
Congress. 
To be inscribed as a member of the Congress, it will be nec- 
essary to sign and forward to the Secretary of the organizing 
Committee (Prof. O. Penzig, R. Universita, Genoa) the printed 
form distributed for this purpose by the Committee, or to inscribe 
oneself during the period of the Congress in a book provided for 
the purpose. , 
Every member of Congress will pay a fee of ten francs on 
receiving his admission card. The members of the Italian Botan- 
ical Society will be exempt from this fee. 
The admission cards (or season tickets) give access to all the 
sittings of the Congress, the right to take part in the excursions 
and entertainments proposed, etc., and also admittance to the 
Museums, Libraries and Collections which at that period will be 
open to the members of the Congress. As the presentation of 
these cards will frequently be necessary, members are therefore 
recommended to carry them constantly with them during the 
whole time of the Congress. 
All the sittings of the Congress will be held in public, but the 
right to spesk and take active part in the discussions and voting 
will be reserved for members only. 
The official language of the Congress will be in Italian, but it 
will be free to, everybody when speaking or in discussions to us¢ 
whatever language he may be most familiar with. 
No particular subdivisions of the various branches of Botany 
will be instituted, with separate meetings for each, unless the 
number of members present and the abundance of subjects to be 
discussed should render such divisions necessary. 
It was not considered advisable to fix any special subjects for 
discussion, but it is as well to mention from the first that the 
Reform of Botanical Nomenclature will be treated in accordancé 
with O. Kuntze’s recent book, and that lectures are already 40 
nounced on the theories of F. Delpino respecting Phyllotaxis and 
Pseudanthia. 
