Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:29:42 +1200 From: Andrew Broome <broome@manawatu.gen.nz> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1486$foo@default> Subject: re: CP Age and History
Jan said...
>> N. schlaeueri would be closer to the standard format,
>
>Only if the commemorated person was named "Schlaeuer". I do not know
>anyone with this name.
Point taken. Although I was commenting on 'format' rather than actual
personal name. Typos do sneak in though.
>> although there
>> is apparently less of a trend to name new organisms after a person
>> these days but rather after some unique feature of that organism or
>> it's location...
>
>OK, let's test this hypothesis: I see published in 1999:
>_Drosera woodii_, _Nepenthes benstonei_, _Pinguicula elizabethiae_
>in 1998:
>_N. wilkiei_, _Utricularia paulinae_
>in 1997:
>_N. argentii_, _N. danseri_, _N. lamii_, _U. chiakiana_
>in 1996:
>_D. kenneallyi_, _Genlisea barthlottii_, _P. fontioqueriana_, _P.
>mirandae_
>
>It seems the trend is not entirely as described above...
By definition 'trend' is not absolute. Perhaps I should have said
'tendency' rather than 'trend'? Anyway, I was speaking from a
Zoological nomenclature viewpoint, with which I am a little more
familiar...
See (some of) you all in San Francisco soon,
Andrew@home.
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