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each botanist for his personal and individual judgment. I 
must decline, therefore, to accept this tempting invitation, 
and content myself by giving a list, from memory, of some 
of the botanists present at the Madison meeting: 
J. C. Arthur, J. M. Coulter, W. A. Kellerman, 
Charles R. Barnes, Frederick V. Coville, Conway MacMillan, 
Charles E. Bessey, aS ne, B. L Robinson, 
. L. Britton, Byron D. Halsted, W. T. Swingle, 
Mrs. E. G. Britton A. S. Hitchcock, Edwin B. Uline, 
Douglas H. Campbell, Arthur Hollick, L. M. Underwood. 
To these should be added the names of Henry H. Rusby, 
William Trelease, and Lester F. Ward, who although not 
present, voiced their approval as members of the nomencla- 
ture committee. Other professional botanists, whose names 
I do not at the moment recall, making the number of at least 
thirty, were present, besides the amateur botanists who cus- 
tomarily attend the meetings—altogether probably a larger 
and more broadly representative group of professional botan- 
ists than has ever attended a meeting of the American Asso- 
Clation. 
In his closing sentence Dr. Robinson gives vent to a state- 
ment as unfair in its implication as it is unwarranted in its 
assumption, to the effect that I have sought to decry any ad- 
verse Criticism of the Association principles. What I did call 
attention to, and what I wish to point out again more plainly 
than before is that Dr. Robinson ignored the Association prin- 
ciples as long as possible, declined to discuss them at the 
times set for their discussion, and then after their final adop- 
tion conducted a ‘‘confidential” correspondence directed se- 
deliberate, and judicial consideration than did the committee 
which prepared this code, and I repeat that Dr. Robinson's 
course, to say the least, seems to me wholly unjustifiable, as- 
suming that he is working for the progress of systematic bot- 
any.—FREDERICK V. COVILLE. 
