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course is to add explanatory labels to them, as in the above 
heading. Archeology and botany are separate subjects, and should 
be kept apart. 
‘‘ Article 50 of the International Rules of Botanical Nomencla- 
ture, 1905, says:—‘No one is authori : 
calls “‘ the National Museum,” where only any difficulty regarding 
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their interpretation can be solved comparison with his ‘ 
ith regard to what Prof. Ewart regards as “a similar addition 
to synonymy based on no more certain grounds,” he does n 
seem to have observed that in that case reference to the type 
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and is prefaced by some criticisms on the Rules. By these, as having 
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the Vienna Congress, he says, “ physiologists and anatomists 
were conspicuous by their absence; yet the man who has intimately 
investigated the structure and properties of a plant has a greater 
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previous sentence complaint is made, not that systematists “‘ decide 
that a name shall not be altered,” but that their tendency is 
towards “ frivolous changes of name.” But surely the principle of 
priority, which has hitherto been recognized, however imperfectly, 
