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learned president of the Linnfean Society, “ is, from the 
**"iltitude of objects nith which it is conversant, 
Necessarily so encnmhcred with names, that students 
Require every possible assistance to facilitate the attain- 
N'ent of those names, and have a just right to complain 
Nj every needless impediment. Nor is it allowable to 
jller such names, even for the better. In our science, 
me names established throughout the works of Linnaeus 
Nee become current coin, nor can they be altered without 
^eat inconvenience.”* 
.That there is a property in names, as well as in 
'"'ngs, will not he disputed ; and there arc few naturalists 
h'ho Would not feel as sensibly a fraud committed on 
^Neir nomenclature as on their purse. The ardour vmth 
"I'lch the student jmrsues his researches, and the 
N®licitude which he manifests in promulgating his dis- 
coveries under appropriate appcllatioas, are proofs that 
Nl least part of his gratification is derived from the 
jNpposed distinction which a name will confer upon 
“'■N ; deprive him of this distinction, and you inflict a 
j|ouiid upon his self-love which will not readily be. 
To enter into a train of reasoning to prove that he 
first describes aud names a subject of natural 
N'story, agreeable to the laws of systematic classification, 
for ever entitled to his name, and that it cannot be 
jNperseded without injustice, would be useless, because 
'Ney are j)ropositious ndiich all naturalists deem self- 
Nvident. Then how comes it, whilst we are so tenacious 
N* our own rights we so often disregard those of others ? 
1 Would now come to the point. It will be perceived 
' 'Nt I have ventured to restore the long neglected name 
^fvltcaria. That I slnall be supported in this restora- 
”Nn 1 have little doubt, when it shall have been made 
Nj^oifest that it was Linnaeus himself who first named 
species. A reference to the tenth edition of the 
* An Introduction to Physidlogiccd and Systanatkal Botany, 
