_ September 26, 1908 63 
EDITORIAL 
There has been an unavoidable delay in the issuing of this 
journal, due to the fact that the editor has accepted a position at 
the University of Nevada, and has been almost continuously en- 
gaged in field work since the first of June. In future we hope 
to issue the numbers promptly each month, and even several at 
short intervals 7fthere is anything to print. We know there is 
no lack of valuable knowledge ready to be turned into copy, but 
if it is not prepared we cannot print it. After October 1oth, 
please address all communications to the editor at the University 
of Nevada, Reno, Nevada. 
In the August number of Zorreya, Professor Cockerell has 
given us a very able and interesting article on “Species and 
Varieties.” The first telling poiut lies in this statement: “Such _ 
persons talk about the creation of species by botanists, showing 
thereby, and in other ways, their opinion that species are purely 
artificial things.” This sentence instinctively brings to mind 
the cry against the “species maker’? which one occasionally 
hears. The common inference is that the ‘species maker” 
inerely puts down a lot of (or in some cases a few) words merely 
to get his name into print. To quote again: “It is not permis- 
sible to call anything humor, or species, at random; but it must 
be recognized that these names do stand for realities, and that 
in either case these may be genuine enough, and yet overlooked 
by the majority of persons.” This sentence, we are inclined to 
think, in nine cases out of ten, describes the person who delights 
to rail at the “species maker.” The one man makes proper use 
of his faculties and puts on record the characters which actually 
exist in the plant. The other man finds fault with him and 
calls him names, because he, Man No. 2, either can not or will 
not see what is there waiting for him to see. 
The editor, as he has stated in private, if not in public, de- 
scribes species only. He does not pretend to say that his is 
