1895. ] Open Letters. 51t 
be permanent, should provide for all foreseen possibilities 
thoroughly in sympathy, will strengthen their cause by rejecting any 
weak principle, instead of clinging to it when it has been proven un- 
tenable—Joun HENDLEY BARNHART, Tarrytown, NV. 
Decapitalization. 
Opposed, as I am, to the spelling of names derived from persons 
without a capital letter, I should nevertheless like to as pon agg Oot 
Millspaugh a question or two. How can nevadensis ever mean of the 
whiteness of snow? Is there a Latin scholar in existence who would 
not understand that édayaensts means comeing from Baja? is it not the 
case that in nearly all languages, except i jecti 
i i lower case initial, while only the sub- 
eel irene 
* Bot. Gaz. 20: 429. 1895. 
