eminence among the botanists of his day, and enabled 

 him to make so lasting an impression niton systematic 

 botany. 



We have given a good deal of attention to the laws of 

 botanical nomenclature, a matter of considerable, but 



largely neglected the far more important laws of botan- 

 ical taxonomy. We have legislated at length in regard 

 to names of species, genera/ families, orders, and so on 

 to the end of the list, while we have scarcely touched 

 upon the far more important question of what these 

 groups should be. We have been more concerned with 

 the chaff than with the wheat itself. 



We are forced to the conclusion that we have rather 

 foolishly spent our time in discussing the less important 

 matters of nomenclature, while we have permitted an- 

 archy to thrive in the far more important work of the 



