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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25th, 1903. 



The Twenty-Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Society- 

 was held in the Linnean Hall, 23 Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, 

 on Wednesday evening, March 25th, 1903. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden, F L.S., &g., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting were 

 read and confirmed. 



The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



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1. Introductory, Codes of Laws ... ... ... ... ... ... 685 



2. 1737 and 1753 687 



3. No Priority for Pre-Linnean Names ... .. ... ... .. 689 



4. Revisions of Botanical Names must be the work of Monographers... 695 



5. Names in MSS. or Herbaria .. .. 698 



6. Uniformity of Names of Botanical Authors 701 



7. On the Writing of Specific Names ... ... ... ... ... 704 



8. The Question of Altering Botanical Names with the View to their 



"Improvement" ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 708 



9. The " Botany of Cook's Voyage " 711 



Addendum. —The De Vriesian Species ... ... .. ... ... 717 



The Society's history during the Session now about to close has 

 not been marked by any events of unusual importance. Such a 

 statement happily does not by any means necessarily imply that 

 satisfactory progress has not been made. 



