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be gainsaid that the use of personal names for species does ob- 

 viate the necessity of knowing the species of a genus sufficiently 

 well to avoid homonyms, but it is clear that such knowledge 

 might at least make for more thorough systematic work. With 

 respect to doublets, it is greatly to be regretted that the original 

 rule of the Rochester Code was not permitted to stand. The 

 Madison amendment has not only resulted in numerous absurd 

 one-word binomials, but has actually weakened the cause of 

 priority by making the latter override all considerations of ac- 

 curacy and taste. 



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