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sal among botanists as as zoologists; and De Candolle especially has 
evinced throughout his eni the strongest desire to do justice to his prede- 
As 
ample of the practice of zoologists, I may be allowed to quote the case of 
Cuvier. In his * Traité Elémentaire,’ ind Vidit in his * Régne Animal’ 
he for the most part adopted the Linnean genera, breaking them up into sec- 
tions, to which he gave names, and these sections having iod adopted by sub- 
sequent authors as genera, his names have been used as generic; and even 
when they were given (as they frequently were) in French, the name has been 
translated into Latin, and the credit of it given (and justly given) to Cuvier, as 
the originator of the genus 
In fact, the simple DER of eA p the name first given to a subdivision 
as the permanent designation of the group, in whatever light it may be viewed, 
er as sectional, subgeneric, or generic, appears to me so clear, that I can 
only regard it as carrying out in natural history the universal moral precept 
"ee commands us * to do unto others as we would they should do unto us," 
need hardly say, therefore, that I concur with Mr. Syme in enu f the 
diclis name Spergularia to the later Lepigonum. J. E, G 
British Museum. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. William Thiselton Dyer, from King's College, London, has been elected 
to the Physical Science Studentship at Christ Church, Oxford. 
Dr. Rostau's Piedmontese plants will not be ready for distribution before 
the end of the summer. J.T. Boswell Syme, Esq., 770, Adelaide Road, 
verstock Hill, N., will take the charge of their distribution in England. 
BorANICAL Soct IETY OF EpiNBURGH.— December 10.—Professor Balfour: in 
the chair. The following communications were read :—1. Notice of the Occur- 
rence of Polypodium caleareum, near Aberdeen. By Mr, James. Robertson. 
2. Account of the Vegetation of the Cliffs at Kilkee, county Clare, Dein 
By N. B. Ward, Esq. Kilkee is exposed to the full influence of the- 
lantic winds and waves, and thus a rock two hundred feet, above high st 
is so copiously supplied with saline spray, as to afford sustenance to a colony 
of periwinkles which fringe its summit. Owing to the same influences, the 
we bg guis a number of y plante ai ] aia Tot EE be 
alpine regions. Mr. Ward then gave a list of all: the plants collected, no- 
ticed the discovery of a Fucus, which was figured in Plate XII. of the ‘Tee 
nal of Botany.’ 3. Remarks on the Sexual Change in the Inflorescence o 
Zea Mays. By Mr. John Scott. After noticing the unisexual characteristios 
