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other hand, who have too generally allowed every one to do that which 
was right in his own eyes, are reaping in consequence a plentiful har- 
vest of confusion. The difficulty of a reform increases with its neces- 
sity. It is much easier to state the evils than to relieve them; and the 
well-meant endeavors that have recently been made to this end are 
in ce great department of natural history, for which the Linnzan 
ca 
our nomenclature, Prof. Agassiz has very properly reproduced them, 
totidem verbis, from the Philosophia Botanica, adding now and then a 
short but pithy commentary. He then proceeds to examine the rules pro- 
by the Committee of the British Association, and shows that while 
. ecesso: . 
18 generally thought that Linnzeus erred by adopting, not too many, but 
0 few of the unobjectionable and well established generic names of 
his predece such as Tournefort, &c. Now when, in the natural 
Togress of the science, a Linnean genus is resolved into two or more 
Tournefortian ones, for instance, are the names of Tournefort to be 
tern ne te Tae Sel eee ee ae Ee ee ees ns 
_* §241. Nomina generica -Potrum Botanices, Greca vel Latina, si bona sint, 
Tetineri- debent, ut etiam usitatissima et officinalia.—Also vid. § 239. 
