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“We suggest the consideration, by such body, of the following questions, among 
others: the law of priority; an initial date for genera; an initial date for species ; 
the principle once a synonym always a synonym; what constitutes publication; the 
form of tribal and ordinal names; the method of citing authorities; capitalization. 
“We recognize the Botanical Club of the A. A. A, S. asa representative body 
of American botanists and commend to that body for discussion and disposal the sub. 
ject of nomenclature as set forth in these resolutions,” 
Respectfully submitted, 
LesTer F, Warp, 
GEO, VASEY, 
F. Hi. Know tron, 
B. T. GALLoway, 
ERWIN F. SMITH, 
Gro, B. SupworTtH, 
FREDERICK V. COVILLE, 
Committee. 
Missouri Botanical Garden,” 
The attention of botanists is called to the facilities afforded for 
research at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In establishing and 
endowing the Garden, its founder, Henry Shaw, desired not only 
to afford the general public pleasure and information concerning 
decorative plants and their best use, and to provide for beginners 
the means of obtaining good training in botany and horticulture, 
but also to provide facilities for advanced research in botany and 
cognate sciences. For this purpose additions are being made 
constantly to the number of species cultivated in the grounds and 
planthouses and to the library and herbarium, and, as rapidly as 
it can be utilized, it is proposed to secure apparatus for work in 
vegetable physiology, etc., the policy being to secure a good gen- 
€ral equipment in all lines of pure and applied botany, and to 
make this equipment as complete as possible for any special sub- 
ject on which original work is undertaken by competent students. 
A very large number of species, both native and exotic, 
and of horticulturists’ varieties, are cultivated in the Garden 
and Arboretum and the adjoining park, and the native flora 
easily accessible from St. Louis is large and varied. The her- 
[* This article has recently been issued as a leaflet. We take pleasure in placing 
it more permanently on record and in calling the attention of botanists to the valuable 
facilities for research afforded.—Ens. ] 
