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144 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
article 20 of the Vienna Code. Linnaeus, almost as a rule, chose the 
names of the older botanists before him, and the number of changes 
would be comparatively insignificant, especially in our American flora. 
This fact is only too evident from consulting the works of Dr. E. L. 
Greene, Flora pati cna and Bay Region Botany. 
ally come to the principle of unrestricted priority "à time, it might as 
1 Soon.  Alread ar roposa ifici 
the prevailing sentiment in public as it is tending to become so in private. - 
More than two decades did Pietro Bubani spend on that colossal work of 
his, so little known, yet withal so erudite, in spite of a number of eccentric 
inconsistencies, his Flora Pyrenaea; whose principle is that of historic time 
priority, and even then it was pobiikhed after the author’s death. The 
way th 
principle of absolute and certain historical priority in nomenclature. 
News Notes. 
Prof F. Charles, of the University of Illinois, is to be the new 
secretary e, editor of the American Nature Study Review. 'The Society 
through this, it- official organ of publication, proposes giving considerable 
cg in the future to the question of agricultural teaching in ele- 
mentary Papes 
r Tidestrom, fo the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been 
pas 
engaged pec. the ummer in making extensive journeys studyius 
the flora of U Bah ges Montana. Special investigation has been 
of Utah for some years by , an i abel 
will eventually culminate in a manual o botany of that state. He 
so ng research work on the noxious and poisonous plants of 
that regi 
Dr. oir dama Bhatt of Botany in the pode qug of Notre 
Dame, seat the Sum in the study of the flora of the Willamette 
Valley in Oregon, making pag ee the of plants in tha untry. Summer 
work was also don ris bia University, Portland, O 
Dr. Edw cene, aaah y Associate of the Siithiniae Institu- 
tion, made, during the Spring, a A Donal tour of several w pea through 
Indiana, Illinois, parisi Michigan and Ontario. He ade a special in- 
baea m of the Aena and antennarias, also a general ode e study 
try y problems regarding the seges of his new species, 
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pai ibi A pet, this region were cleared 
