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duction). If these American botanists would not attach them- 

 selves to international order, we can speak of a botanical Tam- 

 many-ring. 



51^. Another perverter of nomenclature mentioned sub 51 3 

 Dr. E. Levier, who even was elected — it is not known with 

 how few votes and by whom — into the international commission, 

 has discharged against me a pamphlet of 12 narrow printed 

 pages, after that his last furious articles were refused from the 

 Bulletin de l'herbier Boissier et from the Botan. Centralblatt. 



I renounce, of course, to enter in details ; I want only to hang 

 deeper that pamphlet, as he had it sent to the members of the 

 international commission and to my friends, such I could look in 

 it. That doctor, whose capacity in nomenclature is to be seen 

 by the fact that he, notwithstanding his interminable tittletattle, 

 could not join an only paragraph to the laws, that doctor pre- 

 tends that I had called him a " Schafskopf " (sheep's head). 

 But the matter is, that he in a letter conditionally to be published 

 had called himself a "Schafskopf," which denomination he falsi- 

 fied afterwards into " Schafer " (shepherd) in the Botan. Central- 

 blatt (see Rev. gen. Ill 11 : 55). The conditions for the publica- 

 tion were honestly realized by him. I recognize therefore his 

 honesty if arriving. But I had characterized him 1. c. 58 as a 

 Verdreh-Genie (genius in perverting), about which he prudently 

 was silent. 



In the combats that myself as the principal defender of the 

 Paris Code had to fight since ten years against the widely spread 

 corruption in botany, I met not rarely with such malefactors ; 

 their just and strong designation was only duty. That such 

 designations occur several times is no wonder and nevermind a 

 disculpation for a single malefactor. 



