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may see it in print long before he can possibly procure a rival 
} one from the antipodes although previously published. 
| It being admitted, then, that the date of a name is that of its 
7 actual publication, there still remains sometimes the practical 
| difficulty of determining when that publication took place 
|  Primé facie evidence is the date given on the title-page of the 
| __Work, but that is occasionally unfairly erroneous. The whole 
of Rees’s Cyclopedia, in which much Zoological and Botanical 
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