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the attraction of uniformity, but the other is that usually 

 adopted by the botanists to whom we owe our knowledge of 

 the Mycetozoa and the vegetable protists. In this book 

 specific names are written with small initials except in 

 Chapter VIII, where, in order to give an example of the 

 customary botanical method of writing names, these are 

 written as in A. Lister's monograph on the Mycetozoa. 



There is scope for a joint conference of cryptogamic 

 botanists and zoologists to decide on a common plan of 

 taxonomy and of nomenclature for protists. 



