22 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, 1913- 
intervened. The Orchid Stud-Book was published, in which many compound 
and fancy names were changed for Latinised appelations in a manner that 
appears to us unwarranted. 
B. But the Orchid Stud-Book adopted a simple and uniform rule, that 
specific names should consist of a single word—the use of two short words 
being permissible where they can be connected by a hyphen. It adopted 
all classical and fancy names that agreed with the said rule, and it declined 
to recognise others. It did what would have been done at the outset if the 
R.H.S. rules had been followed, carrying out the original idea as far as 
possible. 
A. There is a fixed rule against such procedure. The Brussels 
Congress rules say: ‘‘ No one has a right to alter a name or combination of 
names without weighty reasons founded upon a very thorough knowledge 
of the facts or upon the necessity of abandoning a nomenclature contrary to 
the rules.”” Again they say: ‘‘ The specific name of a hybrid may be 
expressed in Latin or in any language that is written in Roman characters.” 
B. But what is the use of citing the rules of a Nomenclature Congress 
that did not meet till long after the Orchid Stud-Book was published. 
Besides, the clause beginning ‘‘ No one has a right to alter” is only a 
saving clause under the section: ‘‘ Names that are to be rejected, dropped, 
or modified,” and is only intended to prevent the abuse of a very necessary 
rule. 
A. There can be no question about the regularity of the names 
superseded in the Orchid Stud-Book. Most of them were adopted by the 
Committee of the R.H.S., many were awarded Certificates, described and 
figured in the various periodicals, recorded in the Society’s Journal, and 
appear among the nearly 2000 pictures of Certificated Orchids, with the 
records duly filled in and signed by me as recorder. 
B. The names superseded in the Orchid Stud-Book were neither regular 
nor correct, and their number is the measure of the neglect of recorders to 
observe existing rules. 
A. The names were in accordance with the rules, and had the authority 
of the Paris Nomenclature Conference. 
B. I have the said Rules before me, but cannot find anything to support 
the statement. 
A. If it were competent for the authors of the Orchid Stud-Book to 
proceed in the manner they have done, it would be equally excusable for 
any set of self-constituted authorities— 
B. That phrase has no application to the Orchid Stud-Book, for its 
authors adopted the Vienna rules, embodying them in a short and simplified 
wording. The Vienna rules say that the names of hybrids are subject to 
the same rules as names of species, with the addition of the sign x before 
