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Comment of the Feregoing Rules. 
We print the Rules for Citation by request, but are not 
pledged to hand them over to the readers of ERYTHEA as 
being in our opinion faultless. Jt is evident that clearness 
and brevity are prime qualities in citation; and in the examples 
given there is not a little that seems objectionable, and 
which, we hope none will feel called upon to copy. 
We notice that in case of joint authors the “and” is given 
instead of the usual short & Why should any one conform 
to this sort of innovation in citation? Again, “ Proc. Phil. 
Acad.” is bad for the Proceedings of the Philadelphia 
Academy, because the “ Phil.” ordinarily stands for Philos- 
ophy or Philosophical in bibliographical citation. It is quite 
a new thing to force this “Phil.” to stand for Philadelphia. 
«“ Philad.” is by long custom established for Philadelphia; and 
the custom grew out of a necessity, such as any accomplished 
pbibliographer would readily percieve. Again: “ Man. Bot.” for 
Gray’s Manual of Botany, ete.; what need of that second 
term “Bot.”? Did Asa Gray write any other Manual but 
the one of botany? And the simple “ Man.”, universally 
employed heretofore is abandantly sufficient. It is to be 
hoped that people may still be content to use it, and ignore 
this new recommendation. The “ Hil. and Kell.” of these 
examples should certainly become Ellis & Kellerm.; for 
“ Kell.” by long usage is the abbreviation for the late Dr. 
Albert Kellogg, and “EJIL” for Stephen Elliott. Finally, 
are not we free people of America before all others, just now 
in danger, as scientists—botanists—of coming to such slavery 
of rules, regulations, and codes, as will render us uncomfort- 
able at home, as it is already making us ridiculous 
abroad ?—. L. G. 
