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ter and I*ellows, and an organ recital was given on Sunday evening, 
the 17th, in the beautiful chapel of King’s College. The evenings 
were devoted to popular lectures, and honorary degrees were con- 
ferred by the Vice-Chancellor of the University in the Senate 
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louse on the afternoon of August 20. A garden party was held 
at Downing College on the afternoon of the 20th by the kind 
invitation of the Master and Mrs. Seward, tea being served in the 
gardens. Delegates were presented to the President of the Con- 
egress at a plenary meeting at 6:15 p.m., on August 20. The final 
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Botanical Nomenclature 
Perhaps the most important work accomplished at this congress 
was the revision of the rules of botanical nomenclature. Hitherto 
different systems of nomenclature have been followed in different 
countries—the so-called “ American Code” by some (though not 
1) botanists in the United States, and the “Vienna Code,” 
adopted at the Vienna Congress in 1905 in other countries. The 
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result has been unsatisfactory, and a hindrance to the advance- 
ment of systematic botany. At the Congress of Botanists held 
in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1925, the Cambridge Congress was charged 
with a revision of the Rules of Nomenclature for the scientific 
names of plants. At all the sessions of this Section, presided over 
by Dr. FE. D. Merrill, Director-in-Chief of the New York Botani- 
cal Garden, as chairman, there was manifest the closest interna- 
tional harmony, and the result was the unanimous adoption of 
an International Code of Nomenclature that will undoubtedly be 
followed henceforth by the majority of botanists of all countries. 
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This was a great step forwarc 
Hooker \lemorial Tablet 
Notice of this meeting should not be concluded without mention 
of the Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial Tablet to Sir Wil- 
liam Hooker and his son, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, in St. Mary’s 
Church, Halesworth, on Sunday, August 17, at 2:30 p.m. Some 
of the masonry of this old church dates back to the year 972 A.D. 
The tablet, of Hopton Wood Marble (Darbyshire), was designed 
by Mr. A. H. Gerard, assistant to the professor of sculpture of 
