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your mind* Iky should I be ejected to do your work and to check Blume^ 
specimen ? Why should I not be free to use any name I wish* if I am the one 
to decide whether the Khasian plant is different from G* laevifolius ? 
True >y mi may not as yet be in the position to reach a conclusion 
because you have not enough material available# This I understand# But why 
should you have the right of publish.ing a name by anticipation when I have 
no such right myself ? Science goes on endlessly,so,please,let each one of 
us work out that problem tbr which he has the material or about which aiwat 
he fteels ccmpetent* The future will take care of it self I trust that the 
shadows of Hooker^in the Great Beyond where there are no wars and everybody 
is \forgive me if I address them in colloquial American upon an 
issue that Hooker, not being bound by our Rules,was after all free to solve 
any way he wished* I believe,r a ther,that Hooker t s spirit ,r©minding itself 
of having once lived as a great and fair botanist,chuckleseeing that 
the beings of the flesh must speak the plainest language in order to be 
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underst oodfby their brothers in the craft© 
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The fallacies in Gook’s work are so numerous that it is 
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actually„ impossible to discuss them all within the limit of —' 
paper# It might be true, allhough it is not quite certain,that tree- 
and plant-names in Latin take feminine adjectives , to agree with arbor or 
h erba as an implied appositive# It is undoubtedly true that the modifications 
introduced in Art# 72 by the Amsterdam Congress of 1935 are ambiguous and 
oonfusirg , leaving it uncertain what is to be done about the gender of generic 
names. But the generic names in use in taxonomy are not entirely Latin# Many, 
and,these are legitimate too,are derived from Greek roots compounded in the 
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modern manner or used according to classical usage , or from uhclassical langua¬ 
ge Rules are needed to determine the gender of these names® As to Hevea 
and Svea being,or not , homonyms , the Rules provide a good answer* They decide 
( Art* 70," Examples Of Different Names 9 ) that Durvillea and Urvillea 
are different names,which settle the issues to everybody f s knowledge© 
Every botanist has a duty and a right in regard to the Rules# 
He has the duty of studying and knowing them^and has the right to ask his 
fellow-workers to do the same# This is because the Rules protect any and all * 
a nd provide a*meeting ground foT the exchange of ideas and data # The right 
of insurgency and secession against the Article|be it manifested in willfull 
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