268 The Botanical Gazette. -_ 
Regarding the last, they remark: 
“The impulse that ‘led to the ackn nowledgement of ies right of A 
ority was only the vivid desire to create a stable nomenclature, I 
see that i 
ee that by the abs nd unli ioe? observa of the on 
we probably gain the contrary of what we intended, we, 
elves made the rules of priority as a law e right Me amend the 
latter.” They, therefore, propose to retain seventy-eight genera, em- 
bracing nearly 500 s, In — of the fact that there are 
sibly equivalent peg names. circular letter containing 
proposals is being sen Satie engaged in descriptive ve with 
a request that they iedieate their eee to those propositions, or 
Suggest any modifications they oe 
Mr. Spencer LEM. M 
noticed in this journal, anze, p. 102, corrects some of the state 
m is Cc 
* Journal of the Linnean Society, xxrx, p. 231. 
