242 The Botanical Gazette. 
OPEN LETTERS. 
A misunderstanding corrected. 
Some time ago I was informed by a friend that Prof. Conway 
MacMillan in the introduction to his “Metasperme of the Minnesota 
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Valley,” had credited me with holding some remarkable views on — 
the subject of botanical nomenclature that certainly had neveroe 
to my mind. I had so ifficulty 1 i book 
4, to supp : 
one could have so misunderstood my meaning, for my plea was for " 
nothing of the kind. It was only for more intelligent appreciation of : 
actual, practical needs, and present difficulties, and for more judicial — 
ir-mi c nd less isansh 
laid his work open in so many ways e knife of an 
not to mention the assaults an opponent In suc m 
book shows more partisan t judi spirit. 
be deplored in a wor mably printed at the public tai 
, k pres ‘ 
from which the public consequently has a pe to dem: 
DWARD L. 
