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misinformed as to the name of her whom he desired to honour This is to be 
accounted for by his having received his knowledge of the Countess of Chin- 
chon through a French and not a Spanish source. Thus misled, Linnæus spelt 
the name Cinhona and Cinchona, omitting one or two letters; but the fact that 
he altered the spelling in his different editions, proves beyond any doubt that 
rrectly. It was sti 
all the great Spanish authorities; as well as by Howard, Spruce, Seemann, 
imes 
of the wrong spelling is very inconvenient and confusing to the i ing 
number of persons who are practically in d in the Chinchona genus; as 
well as barbarous and illiterate. Most botanical names are means, not ends, 
i ames 
and, their uses as means once established, botanists have plausible grounds for 
persisting in spelling them wrong, when an error is generally adopted. But 
the error now under discussion has never been generally adopted ; on the con- 
it after a policeman’s belt (Cinchona). 
The value of this publication is much enhanced by a series of foot- 
notes from the pen of Mr. Howard, in which he brings his long and 
intimate knowledge of the subject to bear upon the various points 
under discussion, and reetifies many errors into which the writers, 
whose works are here reproduced, have fallen, and into which all pio- 
neers of new or little-known fields must expect to fall. 
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