hy] Proceedings of the Botanical Club. 343 
_ ttade Secretary pro tem. and served throughout the sessions. 
About thirty persons were present, and the attendance 
tinged from thirty to fifty for the subsequent sessions. 
The report of the standing committee on nomenclature, 
which had been referred the preparation. of a check-list, 
Was called for, and presented by its chairman, Mr. N. L. 
- triton. The manuscript, almost ready for the printer, was 
-‘fesented, but before printing was ordered, the committee 
: certain recommendations, which were considered seria- 
—S more j € principle of the permanency of the specific name 
ty large ma 
; tation of th 
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ater ps seme Specific name had been subsequently used, 
€nt presentation of anatural arrangement. | 
fedence in the same volume be regarded as 
+ That the wmously adopted. 
Fmanen * Varietal name be subject to the same laws of 
Sa vhich. Be those which govern the specific. In the discus- 
* F), Und wed Messrs. Britton, Greene, Coville, Smith, 
© Britton oo” Coulter, Atkinson, Seymour, and Mrs. 
ing a yopg ‘OK Part, and the Club adjourned without 
