1893.] Proceedings of Scientifie Societies. 913 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Proceedings of the Botanical Club, of the Forty-second 
Meeting of the A. A. A. S., Madison, Wisconsin, August 
16-22, 1893.— (Condensed from the Secretary’s notes.) —F riday, Aug. 
18.—The president and secretary being absent, the club was called to 
order by the vice-president, Professor W. A. Kellerman, and on 
motion W. T. Swingle was elected Secretary. 
The committee on Nomenclature, continued from the last meeting, 
made the following report: 
“To the Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S.: Your committee 
appointed at the Rochester meeting to prepare a check list of the 
flowering and fern plants of northeastern North America on the rules 
of nomenclature adopted by the club at that meeting would respec- 
fully report : 
“ That the task assigned the committee has been performed, and the 
manuscript of the list is herewith presented, nearly complete for print- 
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‘The committee presents the following recommendations: 
“1. The amendment of section III of the Rochester code of nomen- 
clature by striking out all after the word ‘ retained.’ 
“ This recommendation is based on the mature judgment of the com- 
mittee after watching for.a year the progress of the demand for a rule 
which shall permit no. exception whatever, and effect the closest 
approximation to the immutability of the specific name. 
“2. The publication of the check list for the club by the committee 
and the continuance of the committee for that purpose. 
“3. That the form and the time of publication be referred to the 
committee with power to act. 
" 4. That the general sequence of the natural orders as taken up in 
Engler and Prantl’s * Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien " be adopted. 
“5. That in determining the name of a genus or species to which 
two or more names have been given by an author in the same volume 
or on the same page of a volume, priority of place shall decide. 
“6. That in the elevation of a plant originally described as a vari- 
ety to a species, or the reduction of a described species to a variety, 
the original name shall in all cases be retained." 
On motion the recommendations were taken up in order for discus- 
sion and action. The first recommendation was adopted after some 
