274 Scientific Intelligence. 
In the cavities of the spinal column and the stomach of the re- 
mains of birds from the Guano, yellow crystals of the mineral 
Taylorite occur, a species first noticed by W. J. Taylor in the guano 
of the Chincha Islands. Along with the Taylorite there are nu- 
merous minute scaly crystals of Aphthitalite ; also oxalate of am- 
which Prof. Shepard names Oxammite. Oxalate of lime 
is occasionally observed in 8; also the of ammonia 
— of Shepard) in crystals and, as an 
flor m this mineral, biphosphate of ammonia Biphos- 
phammite S. 
Ill. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
i: bean Botanical Notices and Observations. 
The Code of Botanical Nomenclature, as digested by M. Alph. 
DeCandolle and adopted by the International Congress at Paris 
ting to one a mor 
of these scfieciane DeVan atte iad reply at a meeting of the 
Botanical ae ety of France on the 26th of February, 1869. The 
number of the Bulletin which contains uel erage was 
issued, w ered at the beginning of the present 
€ proper 
they have been transferred to another than the original genus re 
being one upon which further discussion could hardly be m 
than iteration. He merely remarks that the more experience +e 
have of the working of the system of double citation of authors, 
whether with or without parenthesis, the more grave do the incon- 
veniences appear, Since we cannot readily make a brief abstract 
Sermo: and the Congress. The chief serious objection was 
d upon article 50, which prescribed the mode in which unpu 
lished “dame ti taken up by an author, should be subsequently cited. 
We remarked that: “ For instance, there may be no necessity for 
t ioe a up one of Commerson’s names affixed by him to his plants 
in herbaria ; but if taken up, simple verity would seem to require 
this potanist’s name to be cited. We should feel bound to write 
ja Commerson,’ although published b ic nape or 
Fuse, aed pee supplied the character. e S$ pro- 
posed w: apply to names communicated with iralncript char- 
acters te one botanist to another, as well as to named specimens. 
Now, no botanist is bound to do the work of publication for 
another; but if he chooses _ do so, the maxim gui facit tg ias, 
te 
