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without important alterations, the carefully prepared laws’ 
submitted by Alphonse De Candolle. To bring them up to 
date Alphonse De Candolle himself proposed amendments 
in 1883.’ 
Then followed the works of Otto Kuntze, beginning with 
his ‘‘ Revisio,’’ an erudite work, but which, instead of 
tending to a stable nomenclature has done a good deal to 
unsettle and confuse it. It is the work of a man who, 
while being a good botanist, bases his claims to considera- 
tion as a nomenclature reformer not on being a botanist 
at all, or at all events not primarily, but on being a literary 
man with a penchant for botanical archeology. 
Thereupon followed increased discussion amongst 
botanists, and various Congresses, amongst the most 
important of which may be enumerated those of Rochester 
and Madison, U.S.A. 
Then advantage was taken of the Paris International 
Exhibition of 1900 to assemble botanists for an International 
Congress to discuss nomenclature. The business was 
carefully set out some time before and the chief reason 
why I chose 1900 for my extended leave of absence, earned 
1 «Lois de la nomenclature botanique adoptées par le Congres Inter- 
national de Botanique tenu & Paris en Aout 1867, suivies d’une deuxiéme 
édition de introduction historique et du commentaire qui accompagnaient 
la redaction préparatoire presentée au Congrés,” par M. Alph. De Candolle. 
Geneve et Bale; Paris 1867, roy. 8vo., pp. 64. 
2 « Nouvelles Remarques sur la Nomenclature botanique. Supplément 
au commentaire du méme auteur qui accompagnait le texte des lois.” 
Genéve, 1883, roy. 8vo., pp. 79. 
° « Revisio generum plantarum,” Pars i. (1891), Pars ii. (1891), Pars 
iii. (1893); Pars iii. includes ‘‘ Codex Nomenclature Botanice Emenda- 
tatus.” See also ““Supplementum ” and “ Editio Italiana” (1899). 
* See the Rochester Rules, promulgated at a meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Rochester, N.Y., 
August 1892. Also “‘ Proceedings of the Madison Botanical Congress. 
Madison, Wisconsin, August 23 and 24, 1893, published by the generosity 
of the citizens of Madison, June 1894.” 8 vo. pp. 60. 
