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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 
As long as these matters are not judged hy this most important principle, so long 
must nomenclature suffer from the proposition of rules admitted by some and rejected 
hy others. (DC.) 
Differing names are sometimes formed in honor of the same person when their 
names lend themselves to it. Pittonia and Tournefortici are derived from Pitton de 
Tournefort; Brownia and Brunonia from Brown, etc. These names should he pre- 
served for they cannot he confounded in speech or in the tables. Certainly, if alter 
Brownia had been proposed there should appear a naturalist named Brunon, no one 
would criticise a genus Brunonia; hence Brunonia is an admissible generic name. 
(DC.) 
The B. A. committee strongly object to names arbitrarily formed and having no 
meaning. On the other hand, if euphonious and constructed according to the Latin 
form, they are not without their advantages. Yet it is certain that names having a 
definite meaning are much to be preferred. 
§ XXI. Minor subdivisions of a genus may be indicated by a name, or, 
if of less value than a subgenus, may preferably bear merely a letter or a 
number without a name. (DC., etc.) 
§ XXII. When the name of a genus or of one of its subdivisions is de- 
rived from the name of a person, it should be constructed in the following 
manner. (Broun, Bourg., Th.) 
A. The name disembarrassed from all titles and all preliminary particles is ter. 
minated by a appended to the form of the genitive case, thus taking on a feminine 
form . 
The following examples illustrate the method both for generic and specific names. 
Name 
Brun 
Bruni 
Bruno 
Brunus. 
Genitive 
Bruni 
Brunii 
Brunoi 
Brunusi. 
Generic form. 
Brunia 
Bruniia 
Brunoia 
Brunusia. 
Adjective form. 
Brunianus 
Bruniianus 
Brunoianus 
Brunusianus, 
Name. 
Brun a 
Brune 
Bruny. 
Genitive 
Brun ae 
Bruni 
Brunyi or Brunii 
Generic form 
. Brunaea 
Brunia 
Brunyia or Bruniia 
Adjective form. 
Brun ?e 
Brunianus 
Brunyianus or Bruniianus. 
B. The syllables which are not modified by this termination preserve exactly their 
original orthography, even to the letters or diphthongs employed in certain languages, 
but which are not used in the Latin tongue. However, the ci, o, ii, of Germanic lan- 
guages become ce, ce, o; the e and e of the French language become e; y at the end of a 
word of one syllable is treated as a consonant ( Quoy, Quoyia ; Gay, Gayia ), and mute 
e final becomes i , or is dropped entirely ( Perouse , PerousiaJ. 
To this proposition the B. A. committee agree, and it is generally followed. 
C. The genitive form is used for specific names when the proper name is that of the 
person who collected or originally described the species, the adjective form is proper 
in all other cases. Thus Corvus corax , Brun non Linnaeus, or a new Corvus collected 
by Brun, would be C. Bruni. A Corvus named after one’s friend Brun, or an ornithol- 
ogist Brun, would be C. Brunianus . (Bourg.) 
An adjective form, however, must in no case be given to a generic or subgeneric 
name; e. g., Wolfartaria Gray, named after Mr. Wolfart should be Wolfartia. (B. A., 
Bourg.) 
§ XXIII. It is highly undesirable that genera should be dedicated to 
persons not in some way connected with the study of the natural sciences, 
or with the collection of materials upon which that study is based. (B. 
A., Bourg.) 
