420 A QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP. 
in the interests of accuracy and convenience, to the difficulty pre- 
sented by this method of publication. 
This difficulty is one of the future rather than one of the present, 
for the name of each new species is followed by that of its author. 
It may be assumed, although it is not stated, that the enumeration 
of the known species in any given order containing novelties has 
enumerated the species contained in it ong these, without any 
indication of doubt, is Veronica Lendenfeldii F. N Bui in the 
anonymous introduction to the paper w «“ A considerable 
concerned. 
very closely allied species.’ 
, a8 seems by no means improbable, this name has to be 
abandoned in favour of a new one, to whom will V. Lendenfeldit of 
the Kew Bulletin have to be attributed when it is cited as a 
Synonym? It seems hardly likely that every identification in the 
list will ultimately prove ¢ t, and in every such case this difficulty 
tributed to him. In one 
probably responsible; but against this it may be urged that the 
presence of his name as editor on every other Kew publication 
that could in any way be attributed to him. Nor is it easy to 
suppose that he is in any way, except indirectly, responsible for the 
notorious irregularities connected with the issue of the Bulletin. 
t is therefore to be hoped that, in the interests of accuracy an 
of science, some information may be given on the point we have 
aised 
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nie being stated, i woald simplify matters if these were 
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