NOTE BY THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 



Since systematic botany and zoology will necessarily 

 occupy a prominent place in biological investigation in 

 Western North America for many years to come, it has 

 seemed to the Publication Committee that a comprehensive, 

 and at the same time readily accessible and reliable, treatise 

 on the rules that should govern the selection and formation 

 of scientific names derived from Greek and Latin would be 

 especially useful to local botanists and zoologists. To meet 

 this desideratum is the chief motive of the paper here pre- 

 sented. It is hoped, however, that it may have a usefulness 

 beyond the purpose for which it is primarily published. 



