CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 143 
ON DOMINATION 
I do not wish my drastic comments on Brittonianism to give the im- 
pression that I am fighting Britton. That is merely a convenient term 
for that type of standardization which was first put into concrete form 
by Britton, and used to hide his real intent, namely to dominate Ameri- 
can botany. There never can be any real freedom, intellectual or other- 
told me in 1895 that he considered it more important to have a chance 
to work than to stick for any special form of nomenclature. This was 
when the fight was on against the beginnings of Brittonianism. So as 
the years went by, he became more and more a slave, till he lost all sense 
of proportion, and his critical judgment was impaired. 
The only objection to my criticism of the botanical dictators which 
I have received (I received many grateful expressions of approval) came 
from a woman who did not like me to write “mean things . i should 
be duly squelched, but, like the Irishman’s turtle that still wiggled its 
tail after its head was cut off, I am “dead but not sinsible of it”. I do 
not wish to be spiteful at all, but I do approve of frankness, honest criti- 
cism, and independence. I have chosen to attack the dictators by ridic i 
because they are impervious to argument. hen p ople ge so o 
fuss about priority as they have made, and then deliberately adopt a 
a synonym always a synonym”, and brazenly relegate to oblivion , e 
names of families like Coniferae, Leguminosae, and Compositae ea 
they are not founded on genus, nothing but ridicule will get under 
their elephantine hides. 
FREEDOM AT POMONA 
Such domineering intolerance in scientific hare is not Pore = 
. P. A. Munz is he 
all. Here at Pomona College, where is hn rokshank Via 
hich we cultivate sponte d 
i tc. There is a sort of free 
terfuges of society such as false dignity, etc De anand wae 
