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By my panel are excluded only the doubtful cases of nomen 
clature; such it will avoid future changements in notientlabire 
an produce more 5 stabilit 
It is inconsistent to begin, as the Editor proposes, only with 
-piesntind Species Plantarum 1758 and to use notwithstanding also 
Linneus’ Genera a um of 1752, which is moreover an illicit 
reprint ie Ch. K. Strumpf-Halle. 
In the Editor’s A ae of his 1753-starting-point against my 
ciphers eporite. Sap ce the horrible nowiousness of the 1758- 
proposal I ¢ t find any s sibseentint fact, I find therein only 
not opraged ‘rokalit y and suppositions. But words alone = 
— my statistical proves. I beg for careful scrutiny and do not 
ear 
It is true that numerous specific names of my Revisio Generum 
have not received general use in England; but that is no argum ment 
against my new proposal concerning only genera. It is not my 
fault that English botanists maintain a private rule as s species- 
names, if a species is transferred to another genus or if the genus- 
name is to be changed. In ine ey I had to follow the strict 
priority of the international Code of 1867. This isolation of 
at can be done now at the botanical Congress rey Paris 
110th October 1900. As I proposed in the addition to article 70 
of the Codex emendatus (see Rev. Gen. III¥,. p. hee and its 
motivation p. 197-198 of the introduction) the votes of such 
members of a Congress who belong to the inviting dase — 
be reduced to eign otherwise the Congress can never 
By the lack c i 
The ewan of the inviting fea are always in stupen ous 
the 
ntific Congresses would iM animated to settle the 
ae ra as sequent manner and obliging thereby future Con- 
gresses in this practice, viz. :—In scientific Congresses the members of 
the inviting people give honorary — of the first rows and two-thirds 
majority to the invited foreign 
Such it could easily a seen, Gf the majority of a votation is 
obligatici that each Congress has to choose the next one with its 
preparing directors—a practice neglected by the Madison Congress 
—could then be settled on such an arranged Congress at Paris next 
