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spond to this request may be published as a “Committee on Names 
together with this letter and the list of names finally chosen for the 
buildin 
As Rearomint a reply as possible will be greatly appreciated, and for this 
purpose a stamped and addressed co ee is herewith enclosed. 
With the hope that you will find time and inclination to render this 
service in the interests of botany, at ca sincere thanks in advance, I 
beg to remain, 
Yours very Raeta 
ened) C. Sruart GAGER. 
Preliminary List of Names to be Voted for 
Cleidemus (quoted by Aristotle). Earliest plant patholo 
Hippon (quoted oe Aristotle). Taught that cultivated ee are derived 
from wild o 
Aristotle, Batalihed at Athens the first botanical garden of which we 
ord. Teacher of Theophrastus. 
Distouides: lee 64 A. D.). Medical botany. Phytography. 
Theophrastus (B. C. 370-286). Improved the Athens Garden with finan- 
cial aid from Demetrius Phalerius. Author of the oldest treatise on 
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Ghini. First to use dried plants for scientific study. Teacher of Cesalpino. 
Bauhin (1650). Mee species from genus, and described species. 
Plinius secundus (A —79 Wrote fifteen books on botany. Is cred- 
BEN eer sa pane the first to distinguish growth buds from 
ruit ae in trees. 
Brunfels (1464-1534). Reformation of Latin nomenclature. Early herbalist. 
Fuchs (1501- 1566). Economic botany. First attempt to establish a bo- 
tanical terminology 
Trojus (1498-1554). First book of systematic plant description. 
Ericius coe (1486-1535). First showed that the plants named by the 
n t Greeks and Arabs = not grow in middle Europe and cannot 
be Cees in the local flor 
Valerius Cordus (1515-1544). First named “pollen.” First to establish 
many (more than one or two) new genera. First to observe and de- 
soe right and left hand mutation and twining. “First to describe 
mdew. First to describe the occurrence of root tubercles (on garden 
eS Combated fallacy of the importance of the root. First to 
urge botanists to cease copying the descriptions of the ancients and to 
describe anew from nature 
Meyer (Ernest). “ Historian om botany.” 
L’Ecluse. Director of Botanic Garden at ee 1577. 
Aldrovandi. Director of Botanic Garden t Bologna, 1567. First (with 
Ssalpin)" to form herbarium. Pupil ae Ghini 
Ratzenberger. Formed one of the first herbanune in the modern sense— 
1559(?) at Con 
