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Code of the British Association, published in 1S65. An effort will be 

 made to secure the adoption of this new Botanical Code by the Interna- 

 tional Botanical Congress to be held in Vienna in 1905. 



The Code consists of three parts, 'Principles,' 'Canons,' 'Orthography 

 and Citation.' Part II, Canons, is divided into five ' sections,' as follows : 

 I, Categories of Classification ; II, Formation of Names; III, Publication 

 of Names ; IV, Application of Names ; V, Rejection of Names. This 

 Code does not depart essentially in any way from the A. O. U. Code, but 

 it is on some points fuller and more explicit, and at the same time more 

 concise. But the A. O. U. Code was a pioneer in innovations which 

 have now become very generally accepted, but which then required argu- 

 ment and extended illustration. 



Under 'Rejection of Names' (under Canon 16) it is stated: "Similar 

 names are to be treated as homonyms only when they are mere variations 

 in the spelling of the same word " ; thus implying the converse, that of 

 mere variants of a name, only the form having priority is tenable. 



In Part III, under ' Orthography,' is the following : "The original 

 orthography of names is to be maintained, except in the following cases ; 

 the change not to affect priority. («) Manifest typographical errors may 

 be corrected. Examples. — Scoria Raf. is a misprint for Hicoria ; Rnmhora 

 Raddi is a misprint for Riimohra, named for K. von Rumohr." Other 

 provisions require specific and subspecific names to agree in gender with 

 their generic names ; generic names derived from persons should take 

 the feminine form, and should be changed, if formed otherwise ; as, 

 Lippius, Kantius, etc., to be changed to Lipfia, Kantia, etc. Also names 

 proposed in works in which v and y were used as vowels, or n and /as 

 consonants, should be corrected to agree with modern usage, as '"'■ Euony. 

 mtis, not Evo}iy?nus,^^ '•'■Jnngia, not lutigia,''^ etc. 



Provision is made for a few points not covered by the A. O. U. Code ; 

 but the principles and spirit of this Code are so closely followed that it is 

 exceedingly gratifying to see the work of the A. O. U. Committee, pub- 

 lished twenty years ago, so fully endorsed by an able commission of 

 American botanists. — J. A. A. 



