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thing, but, as Dr. Watson has acknowledged, refused to do so 
when he learned that the genus had a name already. 
Two reasons only, not based in fancy, seem to be given 
us by our author, for standing by the name Megarrhiza. One 
is that he himself once before in his life took it up and named 
species under it. Referring to that earlier day he says: “I 
had no hesitation in adopting Dr. Torrey's name for the ge- 
nus.” The known priority of Mara did not then stand in his 
way ; and now he has his own former action for a precedent. 
But a man so true to principles of scientific justice as Dr. Tor- 
rey, had hesitated, and not only hesitated, he had ignored the 
name, although of his own making, and steadily refused to pub- 
lish a genus or a species under it, from the day that he became 
aware that, as a name it was precluded by an earlier. He 
would not attempt to place himself superior to the first law of 
generical nomenclature ; and it seems hardly to argue much 
veneration for Dr. Torrey’s memory, to force him now, into an 
attitude which, living, he would not assume. 
Dr. Watson’s second reason, to give it in his own words is 
this: “The genus Megarrhiza was recognized by Dr. Gray 
in 1859.” The name and description of the genus Mara had 
then been some five years before the botanical public. Is it, 
then, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Gray’s recognition, 
and not historic fact, which determines the names of genera ? 
That is what we had long been compelled to think; but we 
had hesitated to speak our thought. Dr. Watson has now 
spoken it for us.: 
BroGrapuicaL Notice or Dr. ALBERT KELLOGG. 
ALBERT KELLOGG, M. D., the first botanist who became aresi- 
dent of California, died at ihé home of his friend, Mr. W. G. W. 
Harford, in the town of Alameda, near San Francisco, on 
