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was much broader and embraced not merely botany but all 
branches of natural history. | 
Such was the “Stricklandian code,’ adopted in 1842 and 
otherwise known as the “Rules of the British Association.” 
Among the great names connected with this Stricklandian code 
are those of Mr. Charles Darwin and Professor Henslow. In 
1860 this code was reénacted with only a few changes, all looking 
to greater success in attaining the same object. Mr. Darwin still 
served on the committee, likewise Mr. A. R. Wallace, Mr. P. L. 
Clayton, Professor Balfour, Professor Huxley, and among botan- 
ists proper Dr. J. D. Hooker and Mr. George Bentham. AA still 
further revision of the same was made in 1865, and this code now 
stands, but, strangely, has been supposed to be applicable only to 
zodlogy, although its provisions were equally applicable to the 
vegetable kingdom. In the preface of this code occurs this 
sentence: 
‘No one person can subsequently claim an authority equal to 
that possessed by the person who is the first to define a new genus 
or describe a new species.”’ 
In 1867 Alphonse De Candolle presented to the Inter- 
national Botanical Congress, held at Paris, a system of laws of 
nomenclature, upon which he had been long engaged and which 
with very few changes was adopted by that Congress. No one 
certainly could have felt more forcibly the evil effect of the multi- 
plication of plant names than the author of the Prodromus, and in 
the introduction to these rules he says “ in the four volumes of the 
Prodromus published from 1824 to 1830 the proportion of ad- 
mitted genera to synonyms was approximately 100 to 55; that is 
to say, there were at that time about half as many synonyms as 
admitted genera. In the Genera Plantarum of Bentham and 
Hooker, fascicles 1 and 2, published from 1862 to 1865, which 
comprise about the same series of families, I have found in mak- 
ing the same approximate calculation 117 synonyms for 100 ad- 
mitted genera. Therefore, the proportion of generic synonyms 
Must have doubled in 36 years.” This Candollean code was 
based, like the Stricklandian, on the law of priority and Article 
15 of that code is as follows : 
“Each natural group of plants can bear in the science only 
