298 ON THE NOMENCLATRRE OF SOME PROTEACES. 
the position seems to be as follows. Robert Brown read a paper 
before the Linnean Society, on Jan. 17th, 1809, ‘« On the Proteacer 
of eeaepind which was not published until 1811. Meanwhile, 
during 1809, Knight’s book was issued, containing descriptions of 
Brown in reface 
sentence just quoted was written as a defence against the charge 
scaly he had good — to expect. At any rate, the charge was 
viz., to that point of shameful ea when no al man could be 
found to defend him. I would not speak to him at the prrericcen 
of the Royal Society. pie Brown speaks of the book as “ nimi 
say 20a conscriptus.’ 
Al Brown’s “hat n paper was not published till 1810, 
it oaleltg antedates the ‘ fee as Brown quotes the pages 
of it throughout the Proteacee of that wor . he also cites the 
names grsiry eee book, pre the abbreviation, “Knight et 
canton ad fallen, writ Error sob dubio ortus e acer 
disserta: . Trans., J.c.) malé intellecti, vel memoria 
imperfecta retent D. Salisbury, qui ejusdem coram Societate 
Linnzana lectionem audivit” (Prodr. Dp: Had the paper in 
printed form been accessible to Salisbury, Brown would not thus 
have explained his mi Again, in Knight’s book (p. 110), we 
the name ‘ Josephia, R. Br.,” followed by the remark,—* 
genus, most happily selected by Mr. Robert Brown, to bear the 
t Pa ey at first sight 
somewhat puzzlin no such name appears in the descriptive 
8, 
portion of Brown’s eck, although it is mentioned incidentally in 
the Coosa essay (pp. 22, 81). Salisbury, having only heard 
, Brown, bei 
printed 8 remark on its dedication seems to imply that Brown 
wished to flatter Banks, and wag clearly taken by Brown himself 
in that sense, and resented by him. In the ‘ Pr seteana’ (p. 897 
he writes :-—* Cum dissertatio citata de Proteaceis coram Societate 
ne : 
aioe toric 
ME cy aera A cg Coram Societate Linnean lectionem audivit.”— 
Ss ee eee i, 588, ¢ ‘ Prodromus,’ 391. 
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