276 setentific Inteliigence. 
then published; it is doubtful if it was so when that part of Ell- 
ott’s first volume was issued ; and if it were, the enumeration in the 
catalogue, according to the. Code, is ooh tantamount to publica- 
tion. ‘There are other well-known cases of a similar so rt, in which 
an author would become liable to the imputation of dedicating a 
ome to himself. 
n we consider how punctilious the elder DeCandolle was in 
this scan and others ne a similar so sit and how generally he has 
been followed, we must regard the change proposed in the code 
and e exemplified i in some (bat not all) of the later volumes of the 
rodromus as an innovation rather than the declaration of an exist- 
ent common law, or a natural development of it. The laudable end 
sought, nb ee in this and in article 42, is to obviate or diminish 
grave and growing inconveniences which. arise re imperfect ha 
lication and merely recorded names in collections and her 
And here we do not complain that the rights of pubkestion ire’ 
the distribution of specimens, conceded in art. 42, are seemin oly 
very much restricted he new commentary. The duty, or 
perhaps comity, of respecting imperfectly published or unpublished 
names is only one of imperfect obligation, as the moralists would 
say, and therefore not to be fixed by law but governed by discre- 
ou. eS 
whose agency. e would only urge that subsequent citation, 
purporting to indicate the origin, should not in effect misquote the 
recor 
Baillon’ s Histoire des Plantes, yu noticed in our January 
number, goes on well. a have received two more monographs 
published since the year began; o of the Proteacec, oe other 
and much larger one “of the Pabicoss ceous Legu Ose. e 
paper and print are most excellent and attractive: so also are the 
n Fr his kind. We 
upon the plan adopted, it would b er companion 
plement to LeMaout and Decaisne’s Traité General de Botanique, 
of which an English edition is now i ion under the 
auspices. The latter copiously illustrates the families, and barely 
enumerates some of the principal genera. The former illustrates 
ing representatives, cast in a ular and readable form, and adds 
the characters of the genera, in the ordinary technical form and in 
the Latin language. 
