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We would be glad to receive additions or corrections. 
In the “ Guide Hlustré du Jardin Botanique de Dijon,” 1925, 
M. Genty writes of “the too laconic and ephemeral influence of 
the annual seed-exchange catalogs,” and ee for the future 
“some sort of international federation among botanic gardens, 
which could not but have happy results for science and for world 
peace.” 
At present botanic gardens are largely regional and national. 
Many French gardens are laid out on the DeCandolle or Brong- 
niart systems, British gardens on the Bentham and Hooker system, 
and German gardens on the Engler system. These differences 
are more or less reflected in the seed- catalogs and in the nomen- 
clature of the various gardens 
The 1930 Cambridge Congress rejected, by about two- thirds 
majority, the Seer for “ nomina specifica conservanda.” Wl 
botanic gardens, then, change long established names such as Pinus 
excelsa, Araucaria imbricata, Sequoia gigantea, Ananas sativus 
and others? Are such changes desirable and necessary 2—A. G,. 
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