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REMARKS ON THE GENOA CONGRESS. 
By Dr. Orro Kuntze. 
I have lately finished and given to the printer a review of 
fifty-eight different papers upon botanical nomenclature that 
were published between December, 1891, and April, 1893; 
most of these having been elicited by my work entitled, 
Revisio Generum Plantarum. The making of certain lists, 
and the gathering in and arranging of statistics that were 
necessary, in order that I might show clearly the errors and 
absurdities in which Professor Ascherson and the Genoa 
Congress had involved themselves, exacted more labor and 
consumed more time than I had calculated upon, so that I 
shall not now be able to prepare that elaborate critique 
which I had promised should be laid before the International 
Committee at the end of June; I therefore offer to Americans, 
through the pages of EryrHea, a brief syllabus of leading 
exceptions that are to be taken to the doings of the Genoa 
Congress of last year. But first of all I have a comment to 
make upon Professor Ascherson’s use of his office as chair- 
man to the Committee. In official documents he has taken 
the liberty of interpolating many things foreign to the 
business of the Committee. The members of the Committee 
certainly are a corona of high authorities in descriptive 
botany, and the arguments and the opinions of them all are 
desirable. They will help the next Congress to fulfill its 
functions, and perhaps to bring order and harmony out of, 
the present confused and unsettled state of affairs respecting 
nomenclature. But the Congress elected its Committee for 
the express work of dealing with number IV. of the Berlin 
Theses, and gave neither its chairman, nor any member, 
instructions to take up other matters officially. 
In a future paper I intend to propose some: additions to 
the Paris Code. For the present I offer a few lines on the 
mistakes of the Genoa Congress, in order that the one about 
to be convened in the United States of America may avoid a 
repetition of them. 
