52 ERYTHEA. 
priority for anything within it so long as the document is 
neither given nor offered to the public. The title page, or 
the signatures, may be dated, but the date or dates are false 
and must go for nought, so long as the pages remain with 
himself, and the public is not notified of their existence, 
And what is true in the case of an individual, is equally so 
in the case of a partnership of authors; such a partnership 
as this Committee of Publication represents. If the sig- 
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mittee only, at the dates named, they were not published; 
and in this contingency the only date that can be claimed 
successfully for any new name in this List, will be that upon 
which the volume was first distributed to subscribers. 
Epwarp L. Greene. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
By permission of the Board of Regents of our University, 
Mr. Willis L. Jepson will spend the coming months of the 
spring and early summer in botanical study atthe East. His 
address will be, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 
SPECIAL attention may well be called to a very timely and 
well worded editorial in the February issue of the Botanical 
Gazette. It takes the form of an emphatic protest against 
the rising custom of urging forward to important critical 
work in botany, of young persons who have little botanical 
experience, and, as many a recent article in current journals 
will show, without the least approach to the due literary 
qualifications. This aspect of American botany is already 
becoming a scandal in the eyes of good botanists both at 
home and abroad. 
