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ture." Thereby he comes in contradiction with himself and his 

 former proclamation. Likewise Mr. D. Jackson and Mr. Th. 

 Durand, as editors of the supplement to the Kew Index, refuse 

 in its prospectus to acknowledge the nomenclature of the Index 

 Kewensis. That index is only a good work for quotations with 

 a systematic somewhat out of date, but with slight value as to 

 nomenclature. In the new supplements all misnames of plants 

 from all authors are quoted without but all from the bulk of 

 such misnames given by Jackson and by Durand ; that is also 

 not in harmony with scientific exactitude. Moreover, the Kew 

 Index is pretty unreliable and incomplete. (See Journal of Botany, 

 1896 : 298-307 ; Deutsche bot. Wochenschrift, 1899 : 4-7 ; All- 

 gemeine Botan. Zeitschrift, 1902: 98 bis 100, 1903: JOi-105 ; 

 Botan. Centralblatt, XC : 685.) 



3. The French clique Malinvaud-Le Jolis-Levier, who tried 

 to charm away the priority out of the Paris Code (see Rev. gen. 

 Ill 11 : 13-14, 25-30, 43-58); but the priority is the base of 

 that Code. One of these nomenclature-charmers Mr. Malin- 

 vaud, general secretary of the botanic society of France has 

 caused (see Le Monde des Plantes, 1903 : 21) that this society 

 did not participate of the international commission for nomenclature 

 " and that it has no part with an artificial agitation which menaces 

 to end with the bankrupt of the laws of nomenclature." Well, 

 it would scarcely be possible to expose more to shame these 

 laws and the botanic society of France as Mr. Malinvaud has 

 done it. Indeed that society as godmother of these laws of 1867 

 is obliged morally to take care of the further existence of these 

 laws, which she has caused ; but that will be impossible with Mr. 

 Malinvaud, for that would be to set the fox to keep one's geese. 

 The botanic society of France is rather obliged to participate 

 directly of a reformation of the laws of botanical nomenclature. 

 That these laws not be needy of reformation can only be pre- 

 tended by men who do not know these laws by practice. 



4. The clique of some Americans (see note 24) who maintain 

 their inexecutable Rochester resolutions although it is proved 

 that by these rules still 20,000-30,000 names are to be changed 

 (see Rev. gen. Ill" p. CCLXIV and III 11 : 134-153 oftheintro- 



