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in the present part are Petalostigma Banksii, Britten and 

 S. Moore, and Eugenia Banksii, Britten and S. Moore. 



Some of the propositions of nomenclature gives us a shock. 

 Our familiar Banksia is to be suppressed in favour of 

 Isostylis. A new Banksia is to spring up from the ashes 

 of the almost as familiar Pimelea. Our Persoonias, in 

 every one's mouth, are to give way to Linkia ; our Isopo- 

 gons to Atylus. Thysanotus is to become Chlamysporum, 

 while the well-known Xerotes is to be Lomandra. But the 

 whole of the changes can only be understood by examina- 

 tion of those also proposed in Parts i. and ii. 



As I write, the International Botanical Congress 

 (adjourned from Paris, 1900) is meeting at Vienna, and, as 

 the result of its deliberations, it is to be hoped that we 

 shall have the authority of such an influential Congress for 

 a settled nomenclature. When this Congress reports the 

 names proposed in the present work will be passed in review. 



Mr. Britten throughout the work, doubtless rightly, 

 attributes to Banks and Solander plants for which in many 

 instances Solander was originally quoted. He says : 



"A careful study of the various memoranda and MSS preserved 

 in the Department of Botany makes it clear that Banks, who had 

 come to be regarded as a patron of science rather than as a man 

 of scientific attainments, had much more botanical knowledge 

 than was at one time supposed." 



In conclusion, the publication of these fine folio volumes 

 simply whets the appetites of Australians for more. We 

 yearn for the publication of Solander's and Brown's manu- 

 scripts, and trust that they will not be kept back from any 

 considerations of nomenclature of species. Such a reason, 

 if advanced, seems to us inadequate in the case of priceless 

 historical documents of the deepest interest to Australians. 

 We would have liked our fathers to have had the privilege 

 of seeing them ; shall the privilege be denied to the living 



