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of the University on. Wednesday morning. Jacquin was professor 
of chemistry and botany at Vienna from 1768-96, and the in- 
scription below the bust refers to him as Botanicorum Austrie 
Ornamentum. A similar honour was pai his contemporary, 
John Ingenhousz (1730-99), one of the fathers of plant.physiology. 
The programme of the Congress included a large number of lectures 
and papers by well-known botanists on subjects of general or special 
interest. Excursions were arranged for the afternoons to places 
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worked slowly through the Teate 
recommendations of the Botanical Commission appointed at the 
aris Congress of 1900 to amend or modify the laws of nomencla- 
ture drawn up in by Alphonse de Candolle. The various 
schools of nomenclature were well represented. The American 
represent, with a few English botanists, the views of the English 
school 
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contingent from Berlin, and other parts of Germany and Austria 
were well represented; also Paris, Brussels, Geneva, and, in fact, 
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ence was the complete absence of any ill-feeling, and the evident 
anxiety in all present to find some solution of the vexed points. 
when the rank is changed—if, for instance, a variety of Salix is 
elevated to species rank—it shall not be necessary to keep to the 
A. B. Renpus. 
